We invested in some quality wallpaper remover and began what we thought would be a quick job of removing wallpaper. We were wrong, so incredibly wrong. I scraped, scored, scrubbed and saturated that wallpaper with the wallpaper remover gel, but the country house border wouldn't budge. It came off in 1/4 inch pieces, it was miserable. I decided to go find Ben and see what his thoughts were on the wallpaper situation. His solution was a sander. I must say, it was successful and with the help of a large container of Spackle you'd never know we sanded the wallpaper off the wall.
(above: if you look to the far left you can see evidence of my scraping, the section above the light switch was removed with the sander.)The picture below is what the hallway looks like now; painted in a pale yellow.
You didn't like the country houses?? Hee hee. We have 70's paneling and though the kitchen's wallpaper is probably new in the last 10-15 years, it was still 88 year old lady taste. Um...not very close to ours! Way to go!
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