Demo time!!

The normal schedule we'll have for the summer is to both work on a project for a couple of hours in the morning, then I'll go to work while Jack keeps working, then I come join him to work for the rest of the evening after work. The plan for the first day was all demo. Because of the water damage, most of the drywall and all of the insulation had to come out. It's very cathartic to just have at it on a wall with a crowbar. I'm a very big fan of demo. Of course, as we all know, it's the fastest and easiest part of the whole project.

First, let me explain about this particular wall treatment favored by the previous owner. Step 1, pick horrendous color; paint wall. Step 2, accent in second horrible color in such a way to make wall look as though covered with grease spots. Step 3, shellac whole thing with faux finish designed to make wall glass-smooth, and render entire treatment completely irreversible except by forcible removal of entire wall. Step 4, do this on random walls all over house. Step 5, make sure to apply treatment to only half of certain walls, meaning that perfectly good paintable drywall must be removed as well.


Actually, most of it was water damaged anyway. :)

Oh, and just to top it all off, the third bedroom had not only this treatment on one whole and one half wall, but also had four other major colors represented. 

 Don't ask me what that little teal strip is about. Did he run out of paint? Did he just really like teal and want it to make it in somewhere?

Oh yeah, and then when we took off the outlet plate we found one more color, as if somebody had said, "Neon pink? What were they thinking? Dude. I'm going to do this right," and then painted it neon green.

So here is how it looked after a full day's hard work:

Cost:

Scratched arms on my poor husband: $0

More help from good friends: $0
Gas money for 5 trips to the dump in our pickup: $10