This is a story about a selfless mother and her determined designer daughter.

Home Improvements can be achieved with small budgets. Sometimes just refreshing a space adds the necessary value a home needs.

Picture it, USA, the 1990’s, glittered popcorn ceilings being blasted upon ceilings across America while mint green textured walls followed closely behind. Fast forward to 2005 when a selfless woman and her less than handy husband purchased a house in need of cosmetic updates. Fast forward 4x to the spring/summer of 2020 when the world had a bit of extra time on their hands to attempt home improvement projects. Cue the selfless woman’s daughter (that’s me) and her obsession for all things design to take it upon herself to forcefully tackle her mother’s neglected room. To the selfless woman, I say your “someday” came, lady and you more than deserved it. As for the task I willingly took on, I have to hand it to you (Glittered Popcorn Ceiling & Green Textured Walls), you put up a good fight, challenged my patience and had me doubting my abilities. I’m not gonna lie, there were tears and bloodshed. In the end, I believe I’m a better person and a better designer for this experience. Do I want to do it again? Pause for hesitation—only if I absolutely have no other option. I would do it all over again for my mom. She loves her new room and is in the long process of getting her final pieces of furniture. Follow up afters to come.

I’d like to take a moment to thank the YouTube home improvement experts from far and wide, I couldn’t have done it without you guys. You have all inspired me to keep going and helped me out with tips and tricks along the way.

This project took me close to two months to complete starting in late May with the carpet, bed frame and mattress being delivered in August.

Before & After

The end result!

Extreme Makeover Winner

This hopeless case was an obstacle and a home improvement middle finger to those who dare address it (me). Well, it’s quite evident who won this battle. Thank you very much.

The Juice

This is magical juice! The ceiling scrapped off so easily. It was actually the best product for the textured walls. Without it I would still be scrapping 8 months later.

What started out as a party...

ended as a happy hour event. Yes, that’s right, they left me. Day 1 started with all hands on deck and ended with me scraping away wondering how long this was going to take to smooth out let alone to finish completely. Thanks family!

"Dextering" 101

After applying the Popcorn Ceiling Remover I taped up clear plastic drop cloths for 12 plus hours.

Anything goes

Nothing is off limits when all else falls or takes too long for my level of patience. I sweat that shit off. That old paint melted into the scraper. Progress.