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Bella and Ghettee - Day After Christmas'07

John in Singapore

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Ghettee with hair

April 001
Originally uploaded by John John1.

Click on the picture of Ghettee to launch the full photo album. There are about 4 or 5 pages of pics, including all dogs on the couch, to out recent columbus trip.

98% Done!

The walls, and ceiling are done! We just have a little bit of clean-up on the floor, and around the chandelier. But the furniture is in and it looks great!

Next step is a dinner party! Whoo hoo. I am so glad this project is done, next we are going to do the living room..Ugh.

I cannot believe how much dust this whole project made. I think we(Bill) will be cleaning up for another three weeks.

Until next time.

So this is Fade Away Blues

Well, it is starting to come along. This is coat one, going to try and finish coat two tonight. And next is painting the beautifully textured ceiling.

I am not looking forward to it. I also wanted to give a shout out to Roger and Bill, for Surfing and cooking repspectively.

Thanks Guys!

Dining Room - Stage 2

The dining room project is coming along. Once again, Mike came over to help texture the ceiling. Mike specifically asked that I post this picture so his parents see that he actually does work, and not just come over and drink our beer. (Chris and TC - texturing the ceiling is much easier than that silver roof painting crap) Thanks again Mike for all your help.

The ceiling dried and ended up much better than any of us anticipated.

Bill, bound and determined to use the cookie press (or cake decorating thing) that was left to us by dear Mrs. Davis, went to work on the corners. That joint compound can be rough on the hands - hence the gloves.

The Dining Room - Fade Away Blues

Ghettee loves hanging out on my shoulders, but the purpose of this shot is to show you the begining of our dining room refinishing. As you can see, the wall paper is off, the walls are in horrible shape!

With the removal of each strip of soggy-pasty-wallpaper new cracks and loose (lead based - no doubt) paint was exposed.

I was on a roll Friday night tearing and scraping my heart out when, my next-door-neighbor stopped by with a steamer - I think she could hear me cursing at the wallpaper and old paint. The steamer helped a little, it was still quite a pain in the ass.

I entered into this thinking it would be a nice weekend project, both Bill and I had Sat. and Sun off, so what they heck...

I soon realized that there was no way in hell we were going to get this done in two days with just the two of us working, so I asked Mike, Mark and Gary to come over for a scraping party. We offered free beer and organic-vegan food -- only Mike showed up.

Thanks Mikey! (by the way the 2ft square that you sanded and made oh-so-smooth has been textured over)

Ahh..the joys of using drywall mud to texture horribly uneven walls. Bill and I made compressed towel circles for our texturing implements. I had a 5 gallon bucket of mud from when we put in the door. I know what your thinking...the walls look great! --right? Well, they look a lot better than when we started.

We now have the room blocked off with sheets. The furniture is temporarily placed in the living room, and Bill is psyching himself up to scrape the ceiling... oh did I forget to mention the ceiling? It is worse than the walls!

But, soon we will be eating our vegan meals in a dining room with walls of 'Fade Away Blues' trimmed with 'Sandy Oasis' and you are all invited over to share in the glory.

Until next time - John and Bill