The title says it all. When we first looked at the house we now reside in, we knew that the wallpaper thing could be an issue or, a non-issue. Two walls in the master bedroom had it, and all walls in the bathroom.
The bathroom kind of looks like one of those "Magic Eye" pictures where you get really close to it and pull away and Jesus is staring back at you out of the wall or something. But it's not. It's just really really clustered ugliness. Some people say "Oh it's not that bad" But it is. It is that bad.
The striped wallpaper in our room was not awful just not going to work with plans for the room. I decided to take my hand to the bedroom walls first one night. I scored it and used some glue dissolving solution and it came down. In sheets. So easy!!!
And then the nightmare began.
And then the nightmare began.
If you think you've heard the phrase "Million Little Pieces" you have no idea what that really means. For every piece of wallpaper that came down in the bathroom, it meant we had to go back over it at least 3 more times to get the very very fine backing on the paper to come down. Those brown spots you see behind my head and above the tub in that picture, shows where the paper was so adhered to the wall that it took the wall with it.
This is where the story ends for now. The wallpaper has been cleaned from the floor and (mostly) removed from the walls. The fun days of a sponge of hot water soaking the wall to get the rest of
the paper off will have to be re-visited soon. Stay tuned to the saga in....
Wallpaper Nightmares
And then the nightmare began.
If you think you've heard the phrase "Million Little Pieces" you have no idea what that really means. For every piece of wallpaper that came down in the bathroom, it meant we had to go back over it at least 3 more times to get the very very fine backing on the paper to come down. Those brown spots you see behind my head and above the tub in that picture, shows where the paper was so adhered to the wall that it took the wall with it.
This is where the story ends for now. The wallpaper has been cleaned from the floor and (mostly) removed from the walls. The fun days of a sponge of hot water soaking the wall to get the rest of
the paper off will have to be re-visited soon. Stay tuned to the saga in....
Wallpaper Nightmares
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