Bedrooms - Part I

So for the bedrooms - probably the rooms with the least amount of to-do work, but not without their share of challenges.  The primary tasks included: scrapping down the popcorn texture, re-texture the ceiling, patching stress cracks on the walls around the windows, re-paint the walls and trim, and install new ceiling fans.

Master bedroom before we touched it
 

Bedtoom 2: Somehow we didn't get any before photos of
this room, but if you can imagine the same dark blue on the
walls was also painted on the heavy popcorn texture - with
glow stars
 

 

Ceiling texture down (master bedroom on the left and bedroom 1 on the right)

 

ceiling primed with Kilz (bedroom 2 on the left and bedroom1 on the right)

Once the ceiling was primed it was time to texture.  All you need is a large air compressor, Sheetrock mud, a hose and what they call a "hopper" attached to the spray gun.

Dustin and myself in action with the spray gun - he was the hero on the job.  Turns out he has the better
arm strength and the height advantage - my arms gave out after about 5 minutes!

When finished spraying up the texture we waited for the mud to become partially dry and then we drug a large "knock-down" trowel across the ceiling.  Dustin found the best technique was to hardly apply any pressure and be sure to keep the angle between the blade and the ceiling as small as possible.

 

Here are the results of the knock down ceiling texture

 

Bedrooms all textured (bedroom 1 on the left and bedroom 2 on the right)

Master bedroom

Once the ceiling was done we tackled the walls - primarily around the windows - probably stress cracks from the house settling.

 

Master Bedroom: filled in cracks around the window

Bedroom 2: The patched cracks around the window - we filled them in with mud, sanded them down and    

then with an aerosol can of spray texture we sprayed over it to match the wall - note the new wall color,   

bringing the down the blue room one wall at a time

When the cracks were filled in and textured over and the walls were painted we decided to take the plunge and buy crown moulding for the bedrooms.  This is not a cheap undertaking, but we decided since the tape along the edges were not perfect this was a way to cover it up.  As we discovered cutting crown moulding is not a simple as it may seem, the angles can really boggle your mind between the blade angle and the blade tilt.  So to keep it short we were pulling out our hair and second guessing our decision with the crown moulding.

 

All the many scraps cut to try to figure out how the trim needed to be oriented

for the corners to be mitered 

However we pushed through the challenge.  We had to make a trip back to Home Depot to return the lengths we bought since we widdled them down to lengths that were too short for the lengths of the walls; but thankfully it was no big deal to return them and purchase lengths that would fit and allow for some error.  We did bedrooms 1 and 2 with much stress, but by the time we got to the master bedroom we confidently took the measurements made the cuts and put up the trim all in one fluid motion.  Dustin was VERY excited.

Ready to install the crown moulding in the master bedroom

Dustin did most of the installation, but this is the only proof of installation

that exists...  so who is to say I didn't do it all

Once the moulding was up, we put up the ceiling fans for the final touch.

 

Bedroom 1 on the left (formerly painted yellow) and bedroom 2 on the right

(formerly painted blue - ceiling and all)

Master Bedroom (formerly painted

white)

No furniture photos yet, as we need to tackle the master bathroom before we can get everything officially situated.  But those photos will come as progress continues.