Wall update

Phil the drywall guy (his official name, obviously) has been working on our walls for two days (well, evenings really).  He called what the previous owners had done to them a "homeowners special" because it was so terrible.  He thinks that the family room may have been a breezeway between the house and the garage at some point.  He said that when the room was finished that the people didn't hang the drywall correctly which is why the walls cracked in the first place.  THEN when they did crack they used soooo much drywall mud to "fix" it it made a huge hump in the wall (which is what it looked like when we bought the house), so eventually the crack just worked its way through the mud.  Awesome.  He said the only way to truly fix the walls and ceiling is to completely tear them out and do it again, which is simply not happening. He said he is doing everything he can to make the cracks not come back again, so lets hope it works!  He should be finishing Friday, so that means I can repaint and put my house back together this weekend!

I am beyond excited to finally be able to hang my floating shelves and awesome prints I bought many months ago!  Here are some during shots of the repair process =]

This is the wall where the TV was in the picture from the last post about this.

 He also helped us out by fixing the cracks under this window.

 Wall opposite the first picture.

ps- I have NO idea why my pictures have that crazy gray strips at the bottom, anyone have any clue?  I just uploaded them from my phone to Picasa and Picasa to here...