Showing posts with label popcorn ceiling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popcorn ceiling. Show all posts

25 June 2011

Ceilings: Before and After

KITCHEN
Before 
when the kitchen ceilings still had their popcorn-ness
and when the old (horribly dim) florescent light still existed in the kitchen

Kitchen
AFTER
shiny, smooth ceilings
shiny new light fixture!


I don't have a picture of the living room before, so use your imagination!!

Living Room
AFTER

I think we are ALL so glad to be done with this project--it was messy and time-consuming, but 150% worth it.

On to painting the downstairs tomorrow!!

13 June 2011

Darn you, popcorn ceilings

Our house looks like a construction zone.

We're not constructing something--we're destructing. The popcorn ceiling, that is.

Our house, which was built in the mid-80s, has the knobbly popcorn ceiling that was all the rage at that time. Landon and I can't stand it.

We've been planning on a kitchen remodel, but our kitchen remodel budget isn't quite there just yet, so we decided to take on some more budget-friendly jobs while we're waiting to do the kitchen. The popcorn removal is just the first in a series of wall/ceiling tasks we plan on taking on over the next few months which will include: sanding and painting the ceiling white, repainting the entire downstairs (kitchen, living room and stairway) a darker khaki to replace the pale yellow that is currently there, repainting the trim and putting up crown moulding in the living room and kitchen.

Hopefully, once we're done with these jobs, it will be time for the kitchen...our downstairs may be looking like a construction zone for quite some time!