I decided to be frugal and paint our living room myself with some of that texture paint, didnt use mud, thank goodness. It looked really nice at the store but not in my living room! Who knows what I might have done if I were smearing mud all over, Ahh good thing I didnt try that way of texturing. Anyways my husband called a painter
http://www.paintingbymassarone.com/to come fix my crafty work. I got what I wanted, looks wonderful but that's because I didn't do it. I think I'll stick to things that are a bit easier and not so large of a project from here on out but more power to you guys that take this on, lots of work. Like the look minus the work:)