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Yesterday was dedicated to taping the seams. The drywall panels are 4 feet wide, which is standard, but they were all inexplicably cut at 4-ish feet up the wall. My guess is a: the guy who did the work was like my grampa (an old man, jack of all trades) and cut them in half to make them more manageable for a single person to install, or b: off-cuts from another job. More work for me.

Y'all, I have never taped a drywall seam in my life. The horizontal seams are um well I half expect to need to reinstall them lol. I bought mesh for the vertical seams, which was a little easier. Two corners got taped too, both of which had gaps of varying widths (one corner was very bad). It looks a little more like a proper room now. I still have one corner to do, and then I think I will be out of drywall mud, so very likely I'll need to go back to the store AGAIN. Not helped by the mid-wall seam.

Y'all asked about the paint sample, and here you have it: a pale, soft, cool yellow, Van Gogh Candlelight!

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The rest of the series is here, in dark-to-light order starting with Vincent's Mood. Looking here it's more like the barest hint of yellow in white haha. Mom probably would have picked Squid or something. Roomie and I had a LOT of fun picking out the colours we liked.