I think I have probably sanded an entire sheet worth of drywall dust!

I have been making slow and steady progress on the walls.  About half of them are finished and have been primed.  The other half is just in need of some final coating around corners and sanding.  I also need to texture the rec room ceiling.

Speaking of texturing, I had initially planned on texturing the the walls but I am now making them smooth. After some experimentation I decided to forgo texturing because I don't think I would be able to make a consistent and even look.  Since this will be on the walls and not hidden on the ceiling I was very worried that I would hate the texture once the paint was on the walls.  I knew I could make a smooth wall (activate obsessive perfectionist power) but it would just take additional time.  So I decided to trade time for  a finish I knew would not bother me in the future.

There are no pictures of the basement in this post because nothing has really changed (that you can see in a picture) so here is a picture of a cute puppy instead.

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My arm hurts

Over the last few days I have attacked the basement with drywall mud.  I have gone through 1.5 - 60 lbs pails and 2 - 50lbs bags and I am about 75% done, not counting texturing.  The office, and hall have two coats and the rec room is about 90% done with the first coat.  I haven't even touched the bathroom yet.  On a side not, there are WAY too many corners in the basement!

By they way, it turns out that one should examine laminate flooring on clearance extra carefully.  I looked at the flooring we got a few months ago and discovered that instead of having 8 separate patterns of wood planks, this system only had two.  In a long hallway that would not even begin to look random, so we had to return those.  My theory is that this type of flooring had one pattern per box and since it was on clearance they were down to what was on hand which happened to be overwhelmingly of one type of pattern.  Or maybe the guy that loaded it was just a jackass and didn't notice he was grabbing all of the same pattern.

Dust everywhere

Since he last posting we have finished hanging all the drywall.  I also got the shower enclosure finished (sans tile). see below.

Pouring the thinset for a base for the pan to better level it:

 Here is the pan with drain installed:

Here is the enclosure with a layer of plastic and the shelf framed in:

And the final product.  The cementboard is up for the tile and the fan is installed and vented to the outside.

I have also finished all the prep work for the taping and mudding.  I have gone through and check the screws, cut out broken board and pre-filled large gaps, holes and very uneven joints.