VOTW #8 Smooth Sailing...

Welcome back, everyone!  It's that time again for VOTW: Victory of the Week!  (Grab a button below, or the code on the right frame.)

Because I've had some time off earlier in the week, I've been blog surfing and I know there's awesome stuff goin on out there!  So, each and every one of your should have something to post this week.  Can you believe that I'll have 3 weeks to recap?  You all amazed me last week with the links you posted, and the number!

So, as I mentioned last week, we had the ceilings scraped of all their popcorn nastiness.  Here's some photos as you requested to show the progress.  We've yet to prime or paint, but I already love it 1,000 times more.  :)

 

Here's a closeup of the new knock down texture...

 

In some areas, you can see the tape lines from the drywall

 In our bedroom, we had to take the blades off the fan, which is actually in the center of the room, but the photo angle is off :)

 

In the office.  Guess we'll have to do some touch-up painting on the walls too.  They were nice enough to repair though

 another closeup.   Ahh, so much more relaxing than the popcorn!

Anyway, yes, this is still our VICTORY of the week! 

And, another thing I'm super proud of?  The coding, and blog changes I've made recently, most notably, the small party buttons on the right frame, and small blog buttons on the left that show the sites I've been featured on.  (if you want to do this too, you can read the post HERE where I spill the beans on how to do this after some coaching from Kim @ Cheap Chic Home)  I can't believe some of my projects have been featured on such prestigious sites!

So, now, don't be shy, link up YOUR victory of this week, last week, last year or whenever.  What are you proud of?!

And, yes, I promise that the 200th follower giveaway post will be up in a day or two!  You guys shock and amaze me- now we're nearly at 250 followers, 25% more than the number to reach the giveaway in the first place!  Wowsers!

Have a great weekend everyone!

VOTW #7 + Popcorn Scraping

Hey Everyone!  Happy Friday- actually, Happy LONG WEEKEND.  Woohoo!  I have a 5-day weekend, and yes, I'm gloating.  :)

I've got so many things planned over the next 5 days.  I think I need to get some sleep, after just thinking about it!

So back to the post, now that I've made you jealous...

My small victory for the week is the decision we made to hire out the ceiling finishing- scraping popcorn, repair, and texturing.  We'll do the priming and painting ('cause really, $1000 just to paint the ceilings when the whole thing only cost $1650?  um, no thanks.)

 

 

Remember when I told you about how we tried the scraping of the ceilings a few months back?  Or showed you how that ugly stuff looked next to all the pretty wall colors we have in the house?  Well, it turns out that our vaulted front room ceiling was so daunting, we decided against finishing the project ourselves.  We actually did over half the house ourselves, but the last room just was so messy, I wasn't overly excited to do it again.  Had all the ceilings in the house been standard height, it could be done.  It's not difficult.  It's just... messy.  Even with taping up super well, the last round was super messy.

 

 

Anyway.  I'm super excited that a team is coming in Monday and 8 hours later, it'll be 90% done!  (we'll just need to paint soon)

What's your thought?  To Scrape, or not to Scrape?  To texture yourself, or not?  Painting a ceiling?  (I hope we're not crazy...)

So yep, a victory of mine is deciding to shell out the money to just.finish.this.project!

And, what was YOUR victory?  Link up folks :)



And, don't forget to grab a button!  The code is on the right frame, if you need that.

Thanks again for stopping by, and don't worry, I have NOT forgotten about our 200th follower giveway.  :)  Stay tuned!

Excited Over That?

I'm standing at my laptop, jumping up and down, stupidly excited this evening!  WHY?  Take a look:

These are the ceilings only a crafter/hobbyist/home improvement guru could love.

What are you looking at, you might ask?  What is that horrible mess (and that smell)?  That's ugly, right?!  Well, my dear friends, this is stage 1 complete of our POPCORN REMOVAL!  Woop woop!  Be glad right now that they have not yet perfected smell-o-vision through the internet.  These are 30 year old ceilings, that are wet, and dank right now.  EW.

This is only a sneak peak, because I want to do a full post after I get the rest done.

Stay tuned!

POPCORN is to be eaten!

We've got this ugly, ugly stuff.  No offense to you if you have it and, *gasp* like it...

P-O-P-C-O-R-N

(Popcorn, acoustical, horrid late 70's-80's ceiling fad... call it what you will, it's just bad any way you slice it.)

So, lets take a tour.  Where, oh where, does POPCORN ceiling look the best?

How about in the family room, or hallways?  Next to "Blue Willow" paint, or "Cappuccino" paint?

What about in the dining room next to "Maleta Red?"

I don't think I've found it yet...

It's got to be the office!  This sweet baby blue is SURE to class up that POPCORN.  Errr...

Well, maybe next to "Navajo White", "White" or Grey???  not quite.

I know.  It's got to be against the green master bedroom walls (but only when the walls are painted over wallpaper.  That's another story, for much, much later)

How about in a vaulted garage, of a home that used to be a model?!   (strike out number 9... we were out a long time ago.)

That's it, bottom line.  I know where popcorn looks the best!!!  ON SOMEONE ELSE'S CEILINGS!

Look at this monstrosity!  Doesn't it just look dirty and DINGY?  I could do the most steller paint job in any of these rooms, and it wouldn't matter until that POPCORN is gone.  :(

The quote is in, the POPCORN ceiling is coming down- Hallelujah!

Do you have popcorn pictures to share?  Has anyone done anything *COOL* with a popcorn ceiling???  (that sounds like an oxymoron to me... but whatever)