Ever since I first looked at our house, the wallpaper was NOT one of my favorite features. But my dear hubby assured me that we could rip it all down and he would paint every room in the house if I wanted. And even change the color if I didn’t like it in a room. (Yes, just A room gets a change!)
Anyway, now that we’ve lived here three months (or so), I finally took some wallpaper down with the encouragement and help of a sweet, experienced-with-old-house-wallpaper friend.
Daniel’s room went from this:
To this:
And it only took 3 or 4 hours of work! The paper came off quite easily (nice for a first project!) as all the previous layers had been completely removed – except behind the radiator. And there we found evidence of probably five previous wallpapers.
And just look at the gorgeous woodwork! I am amazed – and very excited – at how much more the woodwork stands out when the busy-ness of the wallpaper is gone! Especially since the all-original woodwork is one of my favorite things about this house!
Now I just have to decide what color to paint …
(I’m linking to DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land. Fun!)
So very nice that they just wallpapered the walls and didn’t paint that gorgeous woodwork!! That would’ve been extremely difficult to remove!!!
The woodwork is gorgeous! You just don’t get that anymore.
I think the ‘new’ colors are green and brown (like blue and brown was a few years ago). That might work for a boys room??
Lowe’s has the tiny cans of paint (about $3.00) that actually paint a fairly large area so you can test colors without buying an entire bucket of paint. We did that with our upstairs and I’m so glad we did. The first 3 colors were awful!!!
Can’t wait to see the pictures when you’re done!
Love,
A. P
What great woodworking in this room! It’s going to look awesome! I also love your cabinet project. Thanks for visiting my blog this week.
Removing wallpaper is a lot of work! I have a really hard time with paint colors too! I love how you can buy the samples now. I think I went through 6 samples before I decided on what color to paint my kitchen.
Wow that was some busy wallpaper! It looks so much better already, I’m sure it will be wonderful when you are done. You are right,the woodwork really pops now without all that competition from the wallpaper.
Wow, what a difference just taking down wall paper makes. Great job. Also, I just wanted to drop by and say thanks for commenting on my chandelier makeover on my blog!