The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Yet another week of the One Room Challenge…and another week of scraping wallpaper. Betcha didn’t see that one coming! Week 8 is the final week, so the deadline is coming up very soon for having alllll of this wallpaper removed. Here’s where I was on this section of wall at the end of last week: […]
After my pivot in Week 4 of the One Room Challenge to make this challenge all about me removing the wallpaper in Miss E’s bedroom, it has been a little less intimidating. I still have a ton of scraping left to do and it may be a close shave with even having this new goal […]
One Room Challenge this week has been like a smack in the face. And my wall steamer threw in a few burns on my fingers for good measure. Yup. I’m super late with last week’s post and I am quickly coming out of the “Great Disillusion” and getting onboard the reality train to the ORC […]
We’ve hit another milestone in our restoration of the dining room! Remember those awful 4 layers of wallpaper we had to scrape away and send back to the abyss whence it came? …and then being left with walls of wallpaper glue to wipe off? (learn the method we found worked) Well, if this were a […]
After many hour scraping (and aching), it has come to my attention that to remove wallpaper means to be in battle. I feel like I need to give a general PSA about this: if you are considering using wallpaper, for the love of all that is good, DON’T. Those pretty wallpapers that lure you in […]
