We didn't get as much done today as I had hoped, but that's only because I seriously underestimated the time involved in hanging drywall. Three coats of wall compound! Why the #$&*%@ does it need three coats? After we put the drywall up, I was saying "I can't believe hanging drywall is so easy!" By the end of the day I was saying "I can't believe hanging drywall is so hard!"
We did get a lot done though. The new drywall is up, two of the three coats of wall compound are done, nice and smooth if I do say so myself, and the blotchy paint on the adjoining wall has been sanded off and replastered. (I even got to plant my Joe Pye Weed this morning before we got started!) We still need to do the third coat of wall compound, sand everything, prime and paint.
It's a lot of work but I'm so glad we did this. Even yucky and half-finished, I still think it looks better already. Before we started I had grandiose notions that we'd get the priming done tonight, and be finished with the whole thing tomorrow. But we ran out of steam around 7 this evening and decided it was better to quit before we screwed something up from being too tired to work. Georg let me take a break and put the furniture back, because he is the best boyfriend. Then we had takeout for dinner and now we're watching the Food Network's tribute to Julia Child. It's really good, full of funny clips. I highly recommend it if/when they rerun it.
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