![]() ![]() I’m planning to use this niche to display artwork, so I need flat, sturdy walls. The first thing that I needed to do is to patch a large area where the plaster has pulled away from the lath. Expediency rules! In this shot, you can see the back stairway, and the doorway to the guest room. Most of the paper on the right wall was adhered firmly, so I’ll be leveling it out with drywall compound, rather than removing it all. Here it is, ready to begin patching the plaster. (That’s easy on a wallpaper removal scale, which ranges from repetitive annoyance to utter misery). Since this is antique paper (not vinyl), the water brings it up pretty easily. The top layer of paper scraped off easily, and I just used hot water on the last layers that didn’t want to come up. ![]() There are a lot of methods out there to remove wallpaper, and we’ve tried most of them. I don’t have a before shot, because I started taking the paper down PB (pre-blog). The end of my upstairs hallway is one of those places. There are a few places, though, where the wallpaper is already peeling and has to come off. Since then, I’ve started painting over the already painted wallpaper as a compromise to make the house actually livable. The house has fifteen rooms total, many of them large Victorian rooms with ten foot ceilings, and even my helpful, crafty family just doesn’t have that much enthusiasm! These delusions ended after it took a few months to strip four rooms-rooms covered in up to fifteen layers of wallpaper, wallpaper that came off inch by frustrating inch. When I first bought the house, I had grand ideas of removing all of it and skimcoating. Loryn: One of the downsides of owning a 100+ year old house is the 100 years of wallpaper layered on every surface.
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