A word about "scope creep"

In my profession scope creep is a bad thing.  A very bad thing.  How do you plan your deliverables if they keep changing?  How do you test if things keep changing?  How do you troubleshoot if multiple things changed at once?  When applying that to this project, I say to you that is sissy stuff!!!  Bring on the scope creep!

Scope creep #1:

We had to have a line of pavers pulled up for the gas line, remember?  Well, didn't it make sense to have the deck cleaned, re-sanded, and sealed when they came to put the pavers back down?  It did to us.
Before:

After (yeah there's some sludge in the pool from all this, but it will filter out):

Scope Creep #2:
I must be the only person who believes that popcorn ceilings will return to their stylish heyday some time.  Ok, I don't really but who wants to go through all the mess to replace them?  Not me!  Well the nice drywall guy explained that it is virtually impossible to match popcorn and it is a much better, fresher thing to do to take it off and put up "knock down" (put up knock down?  huh?).  So we're doing that too.  Thus the need to really truly move out of the front part of the house and/or wrap furniture in plastic.

Scope Creep #3:
If your house was built pre-1990 you are probably sporting a set (or two) of these too:

Oh, and the matching toilet paper holder and towel bar.  Yeah?  Well after tomorrow, we're not gonna have any of them!  If you've got someone who does drywall work for a living in your house, why wouldn't you get rid of these things?

Scope Creep.  Not always a bad thing!