Big changes are afoot. While I sit here at work, someone else is working on my house! After 9 months, we finally decided it was time for the water mark on the dining room ceiling to go. We briefly considered leaving it – it did add “character” (though not so much “charm”) and was a lovely conversation starter. But let’s be honest, it’s overstayed its welcome.
And I’m doubly excited, because after they take down the dry wall, re-dry wall, tape, and mud (I think these are the steps, though I’m no ceiling repairman), they are painting the ceiling. But they have to paint the entire ceiling for it to look uniform. And our kitchen and dining room ceiling merge together, so both ceilings are getting painted. Why does this make me so excited? Because lets just say I have a strong dislike for blue tape when painting and I protested by not taping the ceiling when I painted the kitchen and dining room walls in March. So my lines are not exactly straight. I’m hoping that the ceiling paint job fixes my mistakes! If not, option B is to put up crown molding along the ceiling edge, which would be nice too – but time consuming and costly. So let’s hope plan A works out.
So once this week is over, we’ll have fixed the two biggest problems caused from the flood of ‘09 – the roof and the dining room ceiling. Oh, and Mr. Cob built a French drain in the front yard to divert water from collecting at the front of our house and seeping into the basement. The only thing left (in relation to the water damage), is to waterproof the basement – that shouldn’t be too hard, right?
Bye bye stain!
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