We have been cranking through some of our more boring projects, hence my lack o’ interesting posts. I mean, how many times can I complain about drywall sanding before someone comes to the house and cuts my Road Runner cable just to shut me up?

As I mentioned in this post, we’ve been working on one of our spare bedrooms. Our house has 3 bedrooms and the “craft room” upstairs. We’ll call this Spare Bedroom #1. At about 10×12, it’s smaller than the master but bigger than the other spare bedroom.

It had a crumbling plaster ceiling, so that came out and a new sheet rock ceiling got put in. Also, the top foot or so of plaster had been destroyed by drop-ceiling framing (all those nails made the plaster disintegrate), so we went in and cut out the bad areas with a circular saw. This tactic actually worked fabulously.

Above, you can see how we cut out the bad bits. Below, the same area – now repaired and painted. It blends with the old stuff pretty well, although it is quite a bit smoother than the original plaster. But way up there at 10′, the difference would not be noticeable to your average human being.

I’d give you a full “after”, but we’ve got the room crammed with stuff because we immediately moved on to Spare Bedroom #2, formerly known as the room that held all our random crap. #2 needs a new ceiling and new walls so it had to get completely cleared out. Guess where everything went?