Spoken Too Soon

Ah, I *might* have spoken too soon about the ease of which the laundry room was to be redone.  I should know better than to brag about having twelve days to do a project in this house. Nothing is ever as straight forward as "scrape, sand, clean, paint." 

We scrapped the the brick wall.  We were just going for the loose, flaky paint.  We weren't trying to remove all the old stuff, but just the wobbly stuff. Until we reached the top of the stairs.  That is when we scrapped the loose paint, to reveal torn wall paper, to remove to find broken plaster.  

And created the mess that the broken plaster created, all the way down.  *Sigh*   Slight alteration to the plans for the laundry room redo.  We will now first build a triangular shaped wall out of sheet rock, then sand and paint.  Not a huge delay, so far.  Just an added complication.  There is always a hitch in the remodeling; this is it for the this project.  Or, that is what we are telling ourselves.  The rest of it should go smoothly.  Once this is cleaned up, and once this wall is rebuilt with studs and drywall--because we are not replastering!--then the rest will be easy and fast. Right?