We love a lot of things about the new house - the acreage, the peace, the large open space, the tile, the woodwork, the character of an older home...but there was one HUGE thing we did not like - the texture. On every wall in this entire almost 2700 square foot home, a very heavy and obtrusive Santa Fe style texture coated the walls. Cody and I pondered for weeks about the texture trying to decide if we could live with it...We finally decided we couldn't. It's just not our style. So we had a drywall company come in and give us an estimate...$6K to knock down the walls, put up a new skim coat and
re-texture on top of that..Yikes! We
re-decided we could live with it. Then we found out Cody's brother, Dwayne, has a drywall buddy. Gotta love our Seminole connections. Things are cheaper (and done better) by Seminole guys. Our new favorite drywall guy now is Mike.
Cody prepped all the walls by taking a enormous 14" floor scrapper and knocking off the texture. The above pictures don't do the texture justice. You could walk by some of the walls and the texture sticks out so far, it could cut you. No joke. Scraping was
hard work. Cody tried, and I mean tried, to get me to scrape some walls one evening. I quickly gave up. It takes lots of muscle and force...Apparently I need to hit the weights. Instead, I pulled down the Santa Fe style fabric on the walls of the dining room and kitchen as well as the matching curtains.
Once the walls were scraped flat, Mike came in for about eight days skim coating and
re-texturing the walls. Mike even did the hallway which wasn't part of the plan, but we are glad he did! Mike even had to crawl up into the sky light in the kitchen, using scaffolding, to
re-texture. It was quite an undertaking. The walls look a million times better. AND we came in WAY under that original $6K bid...We got a 'Seminole' deal. We used A LOT of 'mud'. Cody and Mike, with the help of Mike's son, messed with a lot of mud. Thank you, guys, for all your
hard work! The house looks fantastic! Now it's ready for some paint!
We love a lot of things about the new house - the acreage, the peace, the large open space, the tile, the woodwork, the character of an older home...but there was one HUGE thing we did not like - the texture. On every wall in this entire almost 2700 square foot home, a very heavy and obtrusive Santa Fe style texture coated the walls. Cody and I pondered for weeks about the texture trying to decide if we could live with it...We finally decided we couldn't. It's just not our style. So we had a drywall company come in and give us an estimate...$6K to knock down the walls, put up a new skim coat and re-texture on top of that..Yikes! We re-decided we could live with it. Then we found out Cody's brother, Dwayne, has a drywall buddy. Gotta love our Seminole connections. Things are cheaper (and done better) by Seminole guys. Our new favorite drywall guy now is Mike. 
