Home Improvement

In the last couple of weeks, I've gotten back to stripping wallpaper in the living room, which had the most atrocious stuff on the walls - a mixtures of pale, sickly blues, and all of the paper wrinkled and stained. Horrible! Here's a photo of the (very cluttered) living room from when we first saw this house.

You can catch glimpses of the wallpaper behind the furniture and wall ornaments.

Here's a photo of the current state of the living room:

This the same corner in the previous photo, with a whole different collection of clutter! That unpainted bookcase is currently serving as a place to put paint trays and brushes and miscellaneous other tools. The far wall, now painted a warm neutral grey, will next have shelving added, because we've run out of places for books. But the other wall, at least the area to the right of the full bookcase, will have quite a different paint job - here's a photo of its current state.

Here you can see the layer of wallpaper that was under the really ugly stuff - not that this stuff is all that better! Anyway, while sitting at my computer in a chair by the window, I kept looking at that patch of paper and plaster and thinking how great it would be to have a painting just that size right on the wall. So why not, eh??!! So here it is, the current state. It will take some time to do this but I'll post photos as the work progresses.