My adventure as Interior Designer

It would be nice to hear I am not the only person who has literally destroyed or just messed up some drywall around home. Some disasters are easier to fix than others. Mine was the Quijote of drywall tragedies.  My son and I carved a crater on the wall. Replacing the whole sheet would have been easier and would have given us less headaches.  But you will see I am a positive person and hey, there is no better way of learning than from your own mistakes. Remember:  Help is out there!  You just have to google, ask, look for DIY videos on Youtube, I mean... the help sources are all over the net for us to use them. What is the worst thing that could happen?  That you can't fix it and have to call a professional? Well, if you take that for granted and decide to learn something new while deciding on who to call, you will have fun and enjoy the search, the shopping and the dirty hands.  Yes, you can laugh :D  How to make small repairs on drywall? ...

We moved into a house that was a former model home.  It still had many of the features that were a trend in the middle-late nineties, and some others added by its latest owner. Those features included textured walls, mirrors... good grief, lots of huge, heavy mirrors, and designer paint around the house. Brown... all in brown tones. Dark brown, light brown, chocolate mocha brown, metallic brown.  Brown kitchen cabinets, brown walls, brown curtains... Not kidding here, whoever owned this house before us, loved brown. The day I decided to start our home renovation, I did it in the formal dining room.  It had the textured walls I disliked the most, plus crown moldings painted in antiqued gold.  Yes, gold. So... I bought some tools and got the room all ready for taking down that texture and leaving all walls smooth and nice. Before starting with the painful part, remember we moved from Spain.  And buildings in Europe are quite different. Structures are not...