Moving Inside to Mud, Mud and More Mud

Getting the drywall hung has made the rooms come alive.  I am already considering colors and furniture placement though to some that may be premature.  A girl can dream, can't she?  

Back to reality because drywall dust and sheetrock mud have to be the most frustrating thing to renovators who live in the midst of the work.  As excited as we are to be picking out our bathroom tile and bedroom flooring, sweeping and mopping floors in the main area these days while Greg is mudding the walls, seems like a lost cause.  With each sanding process, it "rains" compound dust.  I have decided a good sweep at the end of the day is the best use of my time!

Last weekend, this is where Greg started.  After getting all areas covered with gypsum, the mudding process started.  He had what seemed like miles and miles to go before the first coat was on and the joints taped.  It was pretty much all he got done over the 2 day weekend.

For someone who does not do this on a daily basis, it is quite physcially taxing.  We are using fans to bring in air conditioned air from the main house, but up nearer the ceilings, it remains hot.

The spare bedrooms is waiting on it's second coat of mud.

Greg is nearing his final sand and ready for primer to seal the walls.  In talking about walls, we are going to limit our shiplap to one accent wall in each room.  We are using the wood siding for this treatment and will not have enough to do all three walls as we had originally thought.  We are considering what finish we will give to the wood.

These two pictures are of our half bath.  We added a antique crib to the wall for a multipurpose towel rack, toilet paper holder and magazine rack.  The cabinet in the back is one from the kitchen area sized to fit the space for added storage.

Some of the decisions on upcoming material finishes include our two wall colors for the bedrooms and main bath.  We want to keep all three rooms coordinated because of the small space. Currently, we are looking at these two main colors Aiken Ivory and Eliza Lucas, both Historic Charleston colors.  In the next blog, I'll show off more of the materials we are choosing for the finishes.  Stay cool as the dog days of summer continue.  We are excited to see some of this project come to  the finishing stages.  We are predicting at lease 6 months of weekend projects.