Let The Work Begin

On October 13th we closed on the house in the morning and then took a picnic lunch and went directly to our new home. The night before we had purchased compound, tape and paint to begin work on a raw kitchen. Pete immediately got down to taping and his first round of compound, tasks he had never done before, and I primed the  wall opposite to the kitchen. Since there was so much to do in the house, our initial strategy was to work on the main front room which included the living, dining and kitchen areas all in one open space. The kitchen posed the most problems.

The day after purchase and the second compound application

We needed to finish the walls off because they had been left as mismatched scraps of sheetrock. The windows were just that - windows with no frames.  Wires were protruding from the walls in several places because it seemed that the previous owners liked their fixtures so much that they took them when they left. After Pete had worked on the walls for some time he realized that they would never be the smooth surfaces he had hoped for. Rather than starting over with new sheetrock, we chose to camouflage the problem with shelves. Those posed their own set of problems but we are quite pleased with the outcome.

Our kitchen two months later