Here I am taking the "popcorn" off the ceiling of the living room. We had to remove it from the hallway, office, dining room and living room and it was, indeed, a "nasty" job.
Before we could paint, I had to then wash down all of the ceilings over and over again until I had removed all of the powder.
Hera Garth is taking the mirrors off the dining room wall. He needed a thin blade to get behind the mirrors and cut the sticky corner tabs. He discovered that his machete worked great and we only broke 3 or so mirrors. The rest came off whole and we donated them to Habatat
Under the mirrors we found paneling with several holes in it. Underneath that, was a wall of many small pieces of wall board so we got some new thin wall board and put it up. Home Depot was able to match the existing paint and . . . . . .
This is what it now looks like!
Drake was rather unhappy with us when he came for his grandfather's birthday celebration and found that we had taken out the mirrors. Oh well, we can't please everyone.
For those who haven't seen the difference it has made to take out the portion of the wall separating the living room here are a couple of shots.
