Pete and I bought a gorgeous home in Spokane right on Manito Park. The previous owner did a seriously fantastic job with restoring the original woodwork, floors, fixtures, etc., but reeeeally liked his wallpaper. He had done the dirty work of removing probably 4 layers of wallpaper and another 8 of paint, but the wallpaper had to go. When we moved in, we hired a great team to take it down, sand, mud, prime and paint. I can honestly say I had no idea how much work went into taking down wallpaper. And that if I had tackled it as originally planned, I would a) still be working on it eight months from now and b) have ruined the walls in the process.
These photos, and I'm sure many more to come, are a chronicle of "before" and "during".
Our new home!
See?
My boys on the front porch. Our first morning in the new place.
The house in February, when we first started looking at it...
The entry. Gorgeous light. But it trips the breaker anytime we turn it on. Rats. This is the only wallpaper we're keeping.
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