Who Lived Here?
Who thought it was a good idea to paint over wallpaper? Who thought it was a good idea to wallpaper over wallpaper?
On one of the walls in the living room there was wallpaper coming off the wall at a seam. It had been painted over. I started to pull on it. Well, an hour later, it looked like this:
Here's a little closer look:
See, there were about four layers of whitish paint on top of a layer of wallpaper on top of a layer of wallpaper.
The white is the paint, the tan in the upper right is the first layer of wallpaper, the greenish lines are the second layer of wallpaper, the brown is as far down as I have gotten.
I really don't care if that is the bottom of the layers or not, the wall is going. We need to take it down, and possibly some others. I'm not peeling this wall, it would take forever, plus we want to open it up to the stairwell/entry way.
Stripping walls sucks.
posted by Kassie @ 10/15/2006
2 Comments:
oh god, I hate hate hate painted over wallpaper. why did people do that? it doesn't help anything.
if you enounter it in a place where you need to take it off: rip off what you can (hopefully down to the brown paper backing), soak it in water with a sponge and a spray bottle. it may come right up. If not, the wall tiger, DIF wallpaper remover, and a scraper. it will look worlds better.
We bought a house in southeastern WI that was built in the 1880's and the funny thing about it is we had that same green wallpaper in the dining room.
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