Now it's getting interesting!

 This is the (green) drywall screwed onto the bathroom barrel ceiling. Is this too cool or what?

There are curves everywhere in the Rat House. Here is a detail of the 1st bedroom arch and cove ceiling. We duplicated all the original lath and plaster arches and curves using sheetrock.

5/8" sheetrock actually. It is heavy and strong stuff.

You can also see how the cove ceiling works. We'll keep on with the drywall mud to smooth out the lines where we scored the back of the drywall to make it bend so that it will be a nice smooth curve.

View from the back to the front.

Paco uses the larger corner trowel to apply the second layer of mud to the corner joint.

In case you're wondering, the ceiling corners will just get caulked as there will be crown moulding used throughout covering the joints.

The first thing you see when you walk in are the complex arches and my nifty new display alcoves flanking the entrance to the living room.

Aren't they too cool?

Drywall mud is pretty cheap actually. Only $8.45  for a five gallon tub. We're using Hamilton's joint Compound. I think we have consumed about eight or ten buckets so far.

The front entryway to the house is so frikkin' cool. It sets the stage...

Doesn't that bullnose corner bead work great?

Here the bullnose and metal lath is up in the alcove corner scrolls. I did get a big gloppy 1st layer of mud on it on Saturday. Mud-sand-mud-sand... it is like sculpture.

It's that custom stuff that makes these older Spanish/craftsman homes so unique.

We're having fun.