the westside is popcorn-free

Hooray... half of our house is officially POPCORN FREE!

Chris was at the deer lease (we need more meat or we won't have anything to cook in our new kitchen!) and I surprised him by scraping the ceiling in the laundry room.  Yes... we are so romantic.  This is the first time I've done one room all at once.  It's a small room, but still. It felt good to knock it out in one fell swoop. So now the entry, living, kitchen/dining, and laundry are popcorn free.  The 3 bedrooms and hallway have yet to meet their popcorn-maker!  (I crack myself up...)

It's unbelievable how much popcorn can come from one tiny 6 x 10 room.

Seriously... ridiculous.

I know it's old school, but I actually really love this fixture.  I'm trying to decide what color to re-finish the base in?  Suggestions?  My stand-by is "oil rubbed bronze" but I'm thinking that may be too dark for this milk glass-looking fixture.  Polished nickel maybe?

Look at that beautiful naked ceiling! (Oh and to the left you'll see the beginning of my other little surprise project I started... extending the shelves above the cabinets and installing a dowel to hang clothes to dry.)

who wants popcorn?

Like I said, we're not big on sitting down and laying out plans.  So when we get tired of talking, we work on all the demo that needs to be done.  As you can see in the photos below, we have lovely popcorn ceilings.  We've already removed some of it - in our 2 bathrooms when we redid those rooms and then in the living room and entryway - somewhat unintentionally.  (We weren't really ready to tackle such a large space, but when Chris fell through the ceiling while installing a radiant barrier in the attic, we decided since we were patching the ceiling anyway, we may as well de-popcorn.)  If you've never done this before, consider yourself blessed.  It's such a mess.  And it gets in your lungs, mouth, eyes, and anywhere else you can imagine.  Awesome.

Cover everything up and spray it with a hose.

Let it soak a minute then make it snow!  We used a straight-edge hoe when we did the living room.  But you still have to go back over it with a paint scraper/drywall blade to clean it up.  We've learned it's better just to use a scraper the whole time.  It's a little more tedious on the front end, but when all said and done it saves time and does less damage to the drywall.

Beautiful, popcorn-free ceilings.  Still have to patch, sand, smooth, texture, paint...