We started working on the Living Room about two weeks ago. We decided to frame in the doorway to the front bedroom to make more wall space in both rooms. (The bedroom has a second door into the hallway. Terry managed to get the doorway sheetrocked and mudded in one weekend as I started working on sanding and patching the trim and walls.
By last weekend we were ready to put up the sheetrock on the ceiling. It was so easy this time because we rented a lift. Terry was able to do most of it himself in about 3 hours. In contrast, the dining room took the both of us about 12 hours. We've learned once again how important it is to have the right tool for the job. We were amazed at how easy it was with the lift. We had actually considered hiring someone to do the ceiling for us because the experience had been so bad in the dining room. Now we're much better at it and will likely do the rest of the ceilings in the house.


We chose a paint called Dry Sea Grass from Behr. The room glows now.

The day before Thanksgiving Terry had knee surgery, so that put things on hold for a little bit. He had a torn and split meniscus likely from softball this past June. He spent Turkey Day drugged up in front of the TV. He was a very good patient and only woke me up twice in the middle of the night to fix him a snack so he could take some more pills. He was doing much better on Friday.