Mud

No "my name is" jokes, because this isn't something I'm very good at. Nobody would ever mistake me for a professional drywall finisher.

Still, I went ahead and did the first coat of mud on the laundry room tonight. If all goes according to schedule, we'll get the flooring in this week some time, and I'd really like to be ready to paint and get everything installed. Even though the doors will still be several weeks out, it'll be as close to finished as possible.



The taping and first coat went pretty well. Not gorgeous, but one or two more coats will make it as good as it needs to be.

Lucky for me, most of the inside corners are inside the closet itself where almost nobody will ever see them. My sister loaned me some of her tools, including this particularly hateful little implement, the inside corner knife.



Beyond useless, especially with my meager skills. How are you supposed to make a 95-degree angled tool smooth out a 90-degree corner? I don't geddit.