Rehabbing the Bedroom

October 4-23, 2004. Time to rehab the bedroom. Nancy's way? Rip all the cornices and crown molding out, strip the wallpaper off and paint! The cool thing about taking off the wallpaper is finding out what is underneath.

On the wall, from newest to oldest was:

• Current wallpaper
• White paint
• 60's crazy flower wallpaper
• Blue paint
• Green paint
• Dark mauve and pink and metallic silver leaf pattern wallpaper
• Original 1880s wallpaper

Below are pics of the room in progress, as well as a close-up of the original wallpaper.

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Before

Day 1, Removing wallpaper

Day 2

Day 2, Getting down to bare walls

Original 1880s wallpaper

Day 3, Joint compounding the walls (this used to be a closet door

Day 4, More joint compounding

Day 5, Primer on the walls!

Day 6, Color choices (click for info)

Day 7, First coat, windows, walls (note color change from choices!)

Done!

The Painter