Phew! The family room is coming along. Spent the last month or so making decisions on the ceiling and generally getting ready for the drywall guys: removing and replacing insultation, Bob did a great job moving outlets and wiring the speakers and cable into the wall. Then I moved a heating vent as didn't want to do the flooring and then move it. We had to abandon the beadboard planking above the joists. I had primed a few of the rafters and mocked up the plan with some beadboard planking and it was going to be a lot of money and I wasn't convinced withe the lumber that was in the ceiling (overlapping joists and trusses that overlapped the joists not butted to them) that it would look really as good as we wanted. So the ceiling is getting sheetrock and the far wall will be 1 x 6 beadboard planking.
The barely english-speaking drywall guy came yesterady with a buddy and hung and did 2 coats of mud and the room is looking great. The dimensions of it seem to have changed - especially now that there's a ceiling when we had the rafters open for a couple weeks. Once the beadboard is up on the 4th wall it should come back into the shape we remember. 3rd coat of mud today, sand and 4th tomorrow and prime on Sat and then the guys will be done. Then we just have to paint and solve the problem of choosing flooring - hardwood (like the rest of the house) or carpet. Ten we can get our house back as most other rooms have stuff from the FR and the large furniture is crammed into the living room. Didn't seem to bother Bob though, he was sitting in "the man chair" in the middle of it all last night watching the telly.
