after the first weekend

lots of progress over at casa gompers dos. :)

what was once comfortably dingy is now, well, stripped. it was a LOT of hard work (thankfully we had the right protective gear) but was really worth it. the first pic was after we scraped the popcorn from the ceiling in the living room. it wasn't nearly as hard as i had expected it to be. once you wet it, it kinda came off like cream cheese. mmmmmmmmm. didn't taste at all like it, though. hehe.

This next pic is what the bedroom now looks like without carpet, baseboards, tackboards (those were wicked to get out of the concrete with crowbars, i'll tell ya what) fixtures or textured ceilings.

i'll end on a funny note. when sam contacted the property manager to find out if she had the key to the place, she said there had been all sorts of problems over the weekend. someone had dumped all sorts of carpet in the dumpster and she had to call the police and have it carted away. hmmm... who could that have been?

more updates to come next week