We got a mud mask!

Cuz's friend Raymond and his professional drywall crew started taping and mudding the drywall today! As you can see, it made the walls' pores look much smaller and their overall complexion much dewier.

View into kitchen from dining room

The upstairs is now starting to look like two brand new rooms -- one to use as an office and the other to use as a den (or, for those of you who like to delude yourselves into believing I will allow either an Xbox 360 or a foosball table into the house, a Man Cave. Or I guess it would more technically be a Man Garret, but I digress from my strict rule-setting...).

The Man Garret

The office

The two guest bedrooms with their shared bathroom are also looking more polished or, rather, more mudded.
As you're looking at these pics, you may notice that all of our earthly belongings have been Saran Wrapped. This was not an attempt to be artistic (like that guy who wraps buildings and bridges) but a (perhaps futile) attempt to protect our nooks and crannies from the drywall dust that will be kicked up when they begin sanding on Friday. We have enough drywall dust in our nooks and crannies. All of them. We don't need any more drywall dust in those places.