House of Chaos

We're repainting the living room. That sounds fairly simple, but it is the last step in the rip-out-all-the-termite-eaten-paneling, replace-sheetrock, wrap-everything-in plastic, scrape-off-the-popcorn-ceiling, slather-joint-compound-all-over-everything, spray-texture-all-over, scrape the texture flat, paint-everything-with-Kilz, THEN paint the living room. It is a dusty mess that takes over everything. My computer has been under several layers of plastic and jammed up next to the television, which rendered both of them inaccessible. There will be pictures of the before and after, when after is finished. But we did get the painting done, which means we could put away the plastic and vacuum and vacuum and vacuum. There is still a lot to be done in terms of getting all the trim painted and installed--and the doorjambs and the crown moulding. So now I can get to my computer and we can actually sit on the couch and watch a little TV. And it does look lovely.