Around The House

I decided to go ahead and remove the popcorn from the kitchen ceiling this week.  Tearing apart the kitchen is never easy, but it helps some that C is out of school and the weather is nice enough for us to eat our meals on the screened in porch.

Here's what we started with...

This makes the 8th room/area that we've tackled, but it is our first experience dealing with significant water damage (thanks to a flooded toilet a few months back) here...

and here..

The popcorn scraped off easily enough...

But those damaged joints are looking PRETTY rough...

GULP!  It is very possible that I have bitten off more than I can chew with this one.  I was pretty overwhelmed by how awful it looked.  But then I remembered that the bottom floor of our house is officially POPCORN FREE (well...except the closets...which I couldn't care less about :) AND no matter what I do I'm pretty sure it can't look any worse than it did when I started.  As it turns out "can't go anywhere but up" is a pretty freeing place to be :)

Here's our temporary eating area - so that we can at least eat our meals in a dry-wall dust-free area...

Complete with a make-shift coffee preparation area...a requirement for making any project that tears apart your kitchen tolerable!

This screened in porch eating thing is working out so well that I joked with J that between his grill (on the deck) and our new eating area, we might not need a presentable kitchen for some time.  He didn't agree and wasn't amused :)