Day 3 - More Wallpaper

So...Cass and I will never...EVER...put up wallpaper in our house unless we are absolutely sure that we will never have to take it down ourselves! It is kind of a pain. On Sunday, we went to church and decided we'd head on over to the house afterward to do a little more wallpaper removal. We're still pumped about getting it all off the walls so that we can hopefully start painting this weekend.

I went ahead and got started on removing the rest of the wallpaper in the master bath. That probably took me about an hour. The bathroom is small and kind of awkward because the shower and the toilet are the only things in the room and the room is probably 6' x 6' square, roughly. The sink and vanity are separate, outside the bathroom.


After getting most of that done, Cass and I left to go have dinner with her parents since it was Mother's day and we hadn't seen them in a while. We drove out to Highland Township and had dinner with Mom, Dad, Chad, and Cooper. That was fun. Since it was an early dinner and we left the restaurant at 5pm, we decided we'd go back and remove the wallpaper in the Kitchen.


Before we tore it all down, the border in the kitchen had a bunch of fruit on it. This border was the same kind of wallpaper as what was in the master bedroom, it came down in two layers. Luckily, by then I was starting to get the hang of how to remove this stuff! We were able to get all the wallpaper borders down in less than half the time it took to get the bedroom wallpaper down. We had probably got about a quarter of the border down when Cass got a phone call from a friend and 15 minutes later when she came back, I was about 3/4 of the way done with the border. It was funny.

Then, it was time to start taking down the wallpaper below the chair moulding around the room. We took all the chair molding out and decided we'd try to leave the base board moudling on since it was kinda difficult to remove without damaging it. After we finally got that going we were able to take it down pretty fast, too. Now all that's left in terms of wallpaper is the sheets of wallpaper, like what was below the chair moulding, behind the appliances. We might actually get to wash walls and paint this weekend after all!

P.S. These tools are definitely essential for removing wallpaper. (Emphasis on the bandaids though. That scraper's sharp! OUCH! >.<)