we are preppers

No, not that kind of prepper. I sometimes wish I was, but really I'm not.

Our work in the attic was almost done the other week. There were a few things that hubby felt needed to be done before insulation was blown in. One of those was removing the only return that had existed in the house with the old air conditioning/evap system. It sat in the ceiling of this small hall space. The ceiling had been lowered to pretty much door height to accommodate all the ducting running above.

Old ducting was removed and is awaiting bulk trash pick up. We place all this good stuff in our side yard at the street every quarter. The metal collecting guys will scarf it up real quick and the city will haul away what is left. Saves so many trips to the dump. With removing the ducting, we were able to raise the ceiling to 8 feet in this space!

This doorway had what, felt like, a very small arch in it. I went a little crazy with "just cut that doorway off as high as you can". That didn't last long. It got built back down to a good height, but it looks amazing! The vent hole to the right of the doorway was for the old system as well. In fact, all the old vents are removed and in the process of being retextured/painted.

This space is ready for texture and paint. I don't have a decent picture of it right now, so this is what you get until it's done ... which should be in several weeks.

"If you Give a Moose a Muffin" seems to be the way of house projects around here. Why just texture and paint this space when the other arch was going away as well? Why not do them at the same time and get it all done? Good plan. I'll share that with you later as well. The second arch is gone ... and when we get home from vacation (we are actually hopping on a plane this week!!) it will get finished.

Can you imagine the mess if this was left for after insulating? It would have been a disaster!

Check this one off the list!