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Progress reports have been updated on the Basement Project.

Mudding the walls and ceiling has not been an easy chore. If I was going to pay to have any part of this project done for me by a professional, then this would have been the job I would have chose. I have done my best to do a good job but this step takes lots of patience and a little bit of talent to get it done in a timely fashion. I have the patience but I am definitely lacking in the talent department when it comes to mudding the walls. It took a lot longer than I had planned but the work is finally done.

Looking back now I think there are a few lessons I have learned while working on the drywall. The first one would be to take it slow and apply a small amount of drywall on each pass. There were a few places that I added to much mud and it took up to 2 & 1/2 days to dry instead of the usual one day. The second lesson would be to take the time to feather the drywall out. I have a few places in the corners where the walls and the ceiling meet where you can see a hump in the wall where the drywall quickly slopes down to meet the paper. An extra coat farther out from the corner would have taken care of this but I was a little to excited about getting to the painting to go over these spots one last time. The final lesson would be to understand how much sanding sucks. If I would have made less mistakes and been a little more careful with the amount of drywall I was using then the sanding would have been a much easier job.

All in all I am happy with the way that everything came out. I have chose a new color scheme instead of the blues that I have in my original plans. You can check out the new color scheme by clicking (here).