A big shout out to Mike for helping with the removal of wallpaper. He's quite a steamer :-)
Turns out that the removed wallpaper smells nearly as bad as the removed sub floor. So let me just say it out right: Everything smells in my new home. And by smells, what I really mean is STINKS.... badly. I own a stinky house. And for those who know me, I'm weird about smells. It's taking all my will power not to put glade plug ins all throughout the house. But then it would just smell like flowery stink. Which is not really all that much better.
So for the time being, my interim house renovation goal is to achieve an acceptable level of smell... or lack of smell, as the case may be. Wish us luck.
Have patience. Saw dust, fresh cut lumber and fresh paint smell a lot better than 50 year old wallpaper :-)
ReplyDeleteplease, please tell us that the sweet contact paper in the stairwell is still there...
ReplyDeleteNever fear - the fashionable contact paper is still in place! In fact, we're hoping to "recycle" it into artwork to be given as christmas gifts for our closest friends :-)
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