Mud Bath (& Living Room etc.)

With the upstairs guest bathroom and the kitchen now completely and totally and utterly finished it was time to move onto the other rooms downstairs. These are: the art studio pour moi; the master bedroom; the master bathroom; and the living room. When we last saw these rooms, (before we shifted our priorities to the kitchen) new drywall had been installed where needed and those areas were now ready for mudding and texturing.

You might remember that we had the kitchen installed by Mr. Installer and that we didn’t have a great deal to do so you might wonder why we were not busy working on other areas of the house? It would be nice to have done so but there were times when we had no room to work because the other rooms were often filled up with too much stuff.


For example the kitchen cabinets and what not filled up not only the living room but also the art studio, and part of the master bedroom. The art studio also held bathroom sinks, tile and other materials that were destined for the master bathroom.
It wasn’t until all the kitchen materials were installed that we could move some of the other materials into the middle of the living room and work on the walls in the other rooms.

Since it is has been a while, here is another look at the downstairs remodel plan.


That done, it’s time to get mudding.

In the living room.


In the master bedroom.


In the master bath.


In the art studio.


The picture above shows a little innovation that Mr. Remodel is creating for Mrs. R. Mrs. Remodel wanted to have the downstairs room as an art studio but lighting in that room was an issue. It is better in the summer months up to a point and pretty dismal in the winter after 7am. So Mr. R built this shelf to hide four fluorescent lights which would shine onto the ceiling and thereby reflect into the rest of the room, flooding it with a bright and even light.