We built the barn in the summer of 2000 but had never finished off the upstairs, known as "Carol's Playroom." This summer, we felt like we needed the space. It's a fairly gigantic 800 square feet, with a 14 foot peaked ceiling. Husband had installed the drywall several years ago, but we hadn't finished the taping and mudding. We also had quite a mold problem, evident on the upper sheetrock, so we installed a dehumidifier and a heater. After a coat of zinser to seal off the mold, I tried my hand at applying some mud on a few of the joints and almost immediately cried "uncle." The 14 foot ceiling did not make it easier and I'm a little wobbly on scaffolding as well as generally lacking in patience, so $700 and 4 days later, Ralph's Drywall had it all taped, mudded and coated smooth.
Then it was time to paint. I let Husband do the scaffold part and I worked from the floor with a long-handled roller. After three coats of paint on the ceiling and end walls, it was looking pretty good. Next we tackled the floor. If we had wanted a perfect floor, we should have sprung for a notch above CDX. I suggested we do minimal prep work (my impatience again), and just paint it with a porch-type paint, so that is what we did - a coat of primer, then three coats of the special paint. Still looks like plywood, except it's clean and purdy.
Final items to complete next spring: window trim, base molding and some work on the doors. Pretty cool, right?
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