I guess, its up to you. Do you like it? Personally, I dont, and I would hire someone to come and remove the sheetrock, and replace it with smooth. Its a big job to smooth it out, since that is a whole lot of texture.

Good luck finding anyone who can do smooth in Fl without paying an arm and a leg. It seems to be a lost art down here. Maybe have it removed and do an orange peel texture which is about the best you'll get in FL.

I'll be watching to see what works for you. We recently purchased a home that has a 10' wide by 8' tall wall with "cake icing" wall with lots of dips and swirls like the one on the lower left of your wall. I've thought about purchasing razor a couple of scrapers, several packs of replacement razor blades, and a misting water bottle to take off enough of the big swirls (to something closer to yours) and remove some of the gloss paint, giving the razor scraper places to dig into and scrape off more of the painted surfaces.

At that point, I'm stumped. I'm not confident in my skimming skills to get a smooth surface. I'm looking at two options: do the scraping, then apply a shorter, softer texture using watered down drywall compound, then paint with low gloss paint which makes the wall less noticeable. OR just tear out the sheet rock and replace with new (which wouldn't be as expensive as yours would be, but I might be overrating my skills again and I'd still have to cover it with texture anyway.

I hope you get some good advice and share the outcome!

Best wishes,

I’d try sanding it down first.

I would try sanding it first also. When the texture is smoother you might like it otherwise you could keep sanding until you can put a subtler texture over it like knockdown or orange peel.

I would try a combo of sanding and wet sponging. Because I adore that style of texture but not when applied with a club fist like yours was. I prefer a much more subtle version.

Assuming the texture was done with drywall mud, sand to knock off the high points and a lot of the paint. Then go over it with a wet sponge/ wet rags (not dripping wet). Unpainted drywall mud readily goes back to mud state with water. Doing this, you can knock it down even more, smooth it out. Keep going and you can get it back to an Old World texture effect.`

If DIY, you can buy an electric drywall pole sander that attaches to a vacuum for =/-$150. Lots less expensive than replacing drywall...and, for a part time residence???