Walls Primed, Ceiling Painted

Well, I got a lot done lately. After days of sanding and then touch ups and more sanding, I've finally painted. So... primed the ceiling and walls. And after that painted the ceiling with it's final coat of flat white paint. Will go through and look to see if I need to touch up any additional spots, as the primer makes imperfections easier to see, but after a quick look I only see a couple trouble spots that I've have to remedy.
Looks pretty cool as is though. I've have to decide on what color to paint the walls next...

I cut out the hole for the center channel speaker too, and pre-drilled holes for the tv mount.

Will keep the duct line painted white. 

Finished the hallway to the bathroom too, which is in darkness...

Mudding/sanding the duct probably took the most time.

And.. the back of the room.

A look at the fancy theatre lights finally installed.

Recap

The whole mudding process is a slow, tedious one that seems to keep going on and on. Especially when done solo. But, the light at the end of the tunnel is close. I just did a final coat of mud around the corners, as after trying to sand it, it wasn't up to snuff. And in doing that, I also added some more mud in the hallways so they are now complete and ready for some sanding too.

Here's a look at the living room as it is now...

More Mudding

Bit hard to see it on the walls, so I haven't taken any photos, but was at more mudding this weekend. Got a fair bit done on the walls and ceiling of the living room. It's going fairly well as I've put 2-3 coats on the walls and it's working out better than expected. Have had to use the utility knife quite a bit to cut away bubbles that have occurred in the drywall tape, but after cutting it away, the mud is laying flat, blemish free. Another coat on the walls, and it'll be time to sand...

Back on track?

After all the holiday mess, I've started to get back into working on the basement. Am I back on track? Possibly. I started with a small step and finished off the mudding on the ceiling of the stairwell/hallway. Got it to the point of final paint and new lighting fixtures installed. That entailed mudding with a 6" trowel, priming with a drywall priming paint, then a finish coat of ceiling flat paint. Got my light fixtures via amazon, as nothing local was overly impressive.

First coat on the walls as well...

Look of the hallway from the basement living room.

First coat of mud on walls and ceiling.

Hard to see, but ceiling all done.

Little easier to see. All complete on ceilings.

First pass all done

So, there's now two layers of drywall on the ceiling, and the neighboring utility room wall. No more drywall to hang in the tv room at all, and one full layer of tape and mud on everything.

Even got the metal corners around the ducts done.

All the corners from walls to ceiling done too.

So, next step was to texture the ceiling, but I became a bit burnt out on the mudding. It certainly takes much more time than expected. Plus, I still have a few sheets of drywall and no where to really store them to get them out of the way, so I started to drywall the hallway, which also involved some framing that needed to be done. At this point, I may finish up using the drywall just to get it out of the way.

So, the before...

And after.

With that drywall in place, I can now install the door if I want. Will probably get all the mudding done first though. So... at this point, more drywall to possibly work on.

Greened and Glued

Well, got a double layer of paper-lined pain producers on all the ceiling and the main wall that neighbors the utility room. Green glued a 4x10 sheet and lifted in into place by myself which I wouldn't advise. Ouch. Not sure how much it deters sound from wandering to rooms, but it's supposed to take a few months to "cure." Who knows. At this points it's just an experiment. If it works, bonus. The ceiling, with two layers of 1/2" drywall sandwiched together definitely feels solid now though.

Almost... there...

No, trust me, the ceiling is all done...

The first sheet of pain. Lifted 4-5 times to make sure it would fit.

Green glues, prior to fitting in place.

Need just one more tube of green glue to finish!!

Still going...

Haven't posted for a while, so figured I'd add something. I've taped/mudded the entire tv room, but it's not terribly exciting, thus no post lately. I just started adding a second layer of drywall to the ceiling for sound deadening. So - one layer of 1/2" drywall, a layer of green glue compound, and another 1/2" layer of drywall. Doing this should create a barrier for the sound. Basically, the green glue spaces out the second layer of drywall so all the sound resonating / vibrating against the closest layer of drywall isn't transferred to the next layer of drywall. Not sure how effective it will be, but it's a test. I got the stuff locally as it was cheaper than online. The standard is one 28oz tube to one 4x8' sheet of drywall. Here's a few pics of the process.

Two tubes added to my 4x10' sheet.

Attached into place.

Halfway done... one side.

And the other...

It was recommended to mud and tape the first layer, as you see. Wasn't sure what drywall screws to get so I got some 1 5/8" and 2" screws. Turned out 2" were definitely better. Of course, I bought a huge box of 1 5/8" and a small box of 2"...