Drywall

[darkemeralds]

The drywall contractors dropped off 20 sheets of Sheetrock the other day, and it's been lying on my sad, sad bedroom floor, conveniently wrong side up, so last night I magicked some of it up.


That's my one and only professional portrait photo, which I had done for my 40th birthday and have had hidden in the back of a closet ever since. I wrote a little history of my time in this house on the back.

The writing is "The Jewel" by James Wright, my forever-favorite poem:

There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister
A silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind
My bones turn to dark emeralds.


A couple of vigorous fellows came at 8:30 this morning, and had my drywall installed by 2:00. (One of them looked at my Sheetrock enhancement and asked, "What's that?" and I said, "Just some magic," and he kind of nodded, like, yeah, I've heard of that. Apparently people do this kind of thing all the time. Who knew?)


(Look at all my light fixtures! \o/)

Taping tomorrow morning, mudding tomorrow afternoon, sanding on Wednesday, and the contractor says I can paint by Saturday.

Comments

[sasha_feather]

That is awesome!

[darkemeralds]

I AM EXCITE

Also, very ready to be seeing the light at the end of this project.

[cookiemom6067]

Wonderful!

[darkemeralds]

I'm so glad to be rid of that portrait without actually trashing my own image. LOL

[panisdead]

That is such a fun idea I can't even deal. DUDE. *flappy hands of glee*

[darkemeralds]

My sister the realtor tells me that people write messages on the 2x4 studs in new construction all the time. Apparently it's a more or less natural instinct. When I bought the house from the cheap-ass landlord who sold it to me, the first thing I did was replace the front door (which was in itself a symbolic act, but mostly the front door was a cheap hollow-core slab with a one-inch gap of daylight under it).

We found a 1912 nickel placed the original threshold. The county records say the house was built in 1906, but I say otherwise. :D

[bluemeridian]

One of them looked at my Sheetrock enhancement and asked, "What's that?" and I said, "Just some magic," and he kind of nodded, like, yeah, I've heard of that.

♥

[darkemeralds]

I'm told by my real estate broker sister that it's pretty commonplace--though I'd like to think that my particular version of it is kind of cool.

[branchandroot]

It is so cool that you're making your space new again, that that looks very snazzy and ready for it's coat.

[darkemeralds]

The wall guy is in there right now applying the tape and the mud. I'm starting to worry think about painting.

[tehomet]

I love the way you put a little bit of an enchantment on the place.

[darkemeralds]

Hi there! I see you and I are both playing catch-up on DW.

As I imagine you'll have seen by now, the bedroom project is pretty well finished. Whether my little bit of enchantment really worked, or it was just a hell of a lot of detailed planning, I'm very happy with the outcome, and it's a lovely place to spend eight or nine hours a day!