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The Forever Project

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The final touches! I've been itching to update you all on the progress of my bedroom! What was initially supposed to be done within a few months turned into almost a full year.  The wait was largely due to other things conflicting with ability to get just the ceiling done - and the fact that putting beadboard up took 3 people to accomplish.  The product I had ordered is heavier than the beadboard in the bathroom.  Thus, we had to take some precautions and use our smarts to correctly install it.  So, my dad, sister, and I all tag-teamed.   Here's how that went... Some struggles One of the roadblocks we ran into was a general unevenness of the support beams.  With old houses like this, the measurements aren't always exact - so getting the screws to grab onto something proved a bit troublesome.  Eventually, my dad figured it out, but it took a bit of trial and error and a good deal of searching.   In order to smoothen out the process, Pop a...