Still, I can update you on one of our most recent adventures.
In my first post, I mentioned that there was some truly ugly wallpaper happening. It was hanging in our laundry room. Our laundry room does have the water heater exposed to the world, but dammit, that doesn't mean I'm not going to at least TRY to make it cute!
There it is, in all it's glory.
Stripping wallpaper seemed like something we could tackle. I know people do it all the time. Wainscoting can be painted (we're doing it in the kitchen). The floor is being replaced. This is a room we can make something out of.
So, our second weekend in the house I decided I'd have a look at it. Come to find out- that is not wallpaper! I'm actually not sure what it was. Some sort of paneling. It was a little like masonite, but thinner. Very flexible, and attached in large sheets. Textured. UGLY.
"OK," I thought to myself. "No big deal. You just have to take it down. You've got a crowbar- go for it." The wainscoting presented a little bit of a problem, as we had intended to leave it, but after a quick conference with Carrie it was determined that it could all just come down. We'd get a fresh start!
Well.... perhaps 'fresh' is the wrong word.
Pretty!
That's a picture of what I found beneath all of the wall coverings. The brown spots are glue. They went from floor to ceiling. Apparently they went for extra secure, because all of that stuff was also nailed in place. At first, that was all I saw (I started on the wall to the right of the photo) and I braced myself for a weekend of chiseling glue off the walls. Then I moved to the long wall and, lo and behold, mold.
At this point, once I'd exhausted my irritation by ripping down everything I could get, I realized we were going to be better off re-sheetrocking both walls.
That has since been halfway accomplished. The short wall (not pictured) is still just a frame. It's the ideal spot to bring through the new bathtub. We were lucky enough that the mold was just in the drywall, not the frame of the house itself, and was pretty old and dry. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of the new sheetrock, but it is lovely and unblemished!
So, that was a fun discovery, but ultimately fixable one. Hopefully soon we'll actually finish one of our many projects and I'll be able to share it with you all!
