Today a friend helped me tear off wallpaper in our dining room. It was fun to do with someone else, but it was work. I'm finding that I'm (already) sore. I'm not sure if it's worse just that I'm sore, or that I was feeling it within an hour of being done.
We ran into some interesting problems...which, sadly, I knew we would. It seems as though whoever owned this house before us had to have purposely done everything wrong. There is no way you could accidentally do things SO horrible. First, wallpapering walls. REALLY, PEOPLE????? No offense...actually..yes, take offense...really? WALLPAPER?!?? Second, while wallpapering, not bothering to make it the same length as your wall, and then sticking it to both the ceiling and trim randomly as it's too long? SERIOUSLY! Third, taking off just enough wallpaper to fix part of the wall, then painting OVER wallpaper the rest of the wallpaper to hide the problem???? really, people? REALLY??? Fourth, using textured paint. TEXTURED!? to "hide" (which it did a very poor job of) your wallpaper missing, putty filled (and not sanded or made even)wall? Fifth, painting OVER the wallpaper onto both the trim and the ceiling further more looking terrible and making it even more difficult to get off. Sixth, rolling on the TEXTURED paint so fast that it splatters not ONLY on the baseboards and trim, but also the floors. COULD WE DO THIS JOB ANY WORSE?
I rest my case: one must TRY to do this terrible of a job.
and to fix it....I don't want to think about it anymore.
Anyway, all that to say, we've got the wallpaper of 2 of the 3 walls (granted, one wall is VERY small...but still...a wall), and the 3rd wall will be the doozy. Going around a window, patio door and back behind the fridge means there's much more trim that they *most likely* decided to seal more with paint.
I have no words.
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