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<\/a><\/p>\n3) Take out drywall!\u00c2\u00a0 That part is fun.\u00c2\u00a0 We only took it all off one side so we’d have less finish work.<\/p>\n
This is not<\/strong> a load bearing wall.\u00c2\u00a0 So in this case we could just slap up a new opening, we didn’t really have to support anything (although we kinda did here, just in case the ceiling wanted to ‘settle’ and crack)<\/p>\n 4) Carefully remove drywall from the other side of the wall.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, we didn’t want to have to do twice the finish work, so just the opening was removed on the other side, not clear back to the next set of studs like we did on the side you see here. Isn’t that wall paper awesome?\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, big flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s not a border, that what the whole wall looks like (under the paint)<\/p>\n 6)\u00c2\u00a0 Find friends that like to paint.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy them beer.<\/p>\n Six easy steps.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing to it. :D\u00c2\u00a0 For your reference – don’t try to paint a dark red.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s…. difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 Took tinted primer and 4 coats to cover it.\u00c2\u00a0 The first two coats were light, probably could have done it in three, but it took awhile to learn the trick \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n Floor & baseboards are next…. then it’s on to the kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe the bathrooms first.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, bathrooms first.\u00c2\u00a0 Stupid Home Depot – I registered<\/strong> for one of their tile ‘clinics’ last Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 Show up and no employees even seem to know where the class is – bad sign.\u00c2\u00a0 So we finally find the place and stand around for 15 minutes until somebody says “I don’t think we have the manpower for the class today”\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, so why did I register?\u00c2\u00a0 You couldn’t make sure you had enough people or at least call\/email and let me know you weren’t going to do it?\u00c2\u00a0 Jerks.\u00c2\u00a0 And at noon on a Saturday they had one poor girl trying to cover the whole paint department.\u00c2\u00a0 So asked some guy if he could help just grab the paint she needed and she’d mix\/shake\/whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 He came up with some lame excuse like “I don’t know where anything is here” and walked off.\u00c2\u00a0 Lazy shit.\u00c2\u00a0 I<\/em> know where most of the crap is in that area, and I don’t even work there!\u00c2\u00a0 To top it all off, they only had their “U-Scan” lanes open… at noon on a Saturday!! Ever tried to swipe an 8′ 2×4 across a U-Scan?\u00c2\u00a0 Stupid Home Depot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah yeah, so I’m going WAY out of order here.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll get to the cause of all this later.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, here’s now you take down a wall: 1) Find friends that know what they’re doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy them beer. … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
\n5) Drywall, mud, sand, mud, sand, mud, sand, mud, sand<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n