stripping wallpaper that is!
waiting for the Pastor to climb back into his seat after his near-apoplexy...
:)
I've been prepping our bedroom for some new wallpaper. It began with a simple purchase of new duvet covers and curtains, to match the carpet that we've had in there for 5 years now. I've recently been inspired to look around at our rooms (in the light of the impending doom of selling the house) and try and make things look as though they are co-ordinated! After said purchase, it occurred to me that the wallpaper border that I had put up (a "removable" border!) 5 years ago to match the old duvet sets-- clashed with the new pattern. So I reached up and without thought to consequence, tried to remove the border.
Welp, it weren't very removable. It was pretty much sealed to the wallpaper. So, since I'd already done the deed of ruining the wallpaper irreversibly, I went ahead and ripped the whole border off, tearing the paper all the way round the room.
I must say it was fairly exhilarating, that experience... I've been wanting to get rid of this wallpaper since I moved here. It isn't yellow, it isn't terracotta, and it isn't cream... it's kind of like a dirty sandy color... Andy's parents and Andy put it up 10 years ago when Andy moved in to this house. Since then, however, it has gotten grotty and stained and mankey. And I can honestly say, I have never liked it. :(
I have a wonderful friend called Shirley. I met her because she stopped in Crewe Library one day (I wasn't even there!) and asked about any cross stitch clubs in the area. My lovely fellow staffmates told her about me, and phoned me to ask if it was okay for them to give her my details. I was thrilled and she contacted me and got the time and date of the next Sewing Club at church and came along! I have since found out through various outings with her that she loves to wallpaper!!!
Are you sensing a theme here?
good.
Long story short, I apologised to Andy about the wallpaper and promised to redecorate the room properly -- planning on taking Shirley up on an offer she'd made to help me any time I wanted her to!
We talked about it at the last Sewing Club and she said the only dates she has free to help me between now and June is this Thursday/Friday. So I booked it with her, and made all arrangements in my schedule to be there.
Yesterday we took all the furniture out of the bedroom except the bed and a bedside table and this morning I began the bohemoth task of stripping off the wallpaper. It was incredibly freeing-- knowing how much I'd hated that paper, to scrape it off and watch it fall to the floor in pieces.
I even put the cds I'd borrowed from Danny by Philip Glass-- the Akhnaten opera (which sounded very much like my favourite cd at the moment-- the soundtrack to the movie the Hours-- also by Philip Glass!). I'm afraid I like the soundtrack better than the opera, Danny. I'd like to know what your thoughts were on it-- if you listened to the cd and thought... hmmm... this sounds VERY familiar.... there are some pieces that he hardly changed from one project to the other!
Anyhooo-- now I'm knackered... I'm not quite finished though-- still have a quarter of the last wall to do. The steamer ran out of steam and then all of a sudden the circuit breaker for the whole house went, and I was sitting there in utter darkness.
It was a sign.