To be fair, the whole change came about because one of my friends, seeing our furniture, said "this room would look really nice in a shade of green to go with the couch". I bought some "Berlin Green" paint and painted the living room. Well, this shade of green and baby blue together was worse than the wallpaper everywhere else. Me, being just slightly anal, could not have this and went to the class. When removing the wallpaper, I came across my first "stupid people take short cuts" experience. Apparently, removing all the wallpaper was just too much so they removed some of it and painted over some of it. Long story short, the air turned a dark shade of blue. Anyway, I wallpapered the dining room, kitchen, upstairs hall and then both kids rooms. Seeing how talented I was, soon others were wanting me to wallpaper for them!! (actually just mom, dad & Amy)
When we moved into this house, I did both the kids rooms and that was it. Until a couple of weeks ago. It all started because I wanted to wash the downstairs windows and blinds. I successfully washed the windows and took the blinds to the car wash as I have before with other blinds. Well as luck would have it, these were metal blinds painted white and when they dried, some slats were stuck together thus peeling off paint! We put the blinds back up in the living room only for the night and the next day went shopping for blinds. Knowing I didn't want the same kind of blinds, but needing seven blinds, we decided, (because I am spoiled), that we should get wood blinds to update the house. We bought two for the front and will get the rest as we can.
WELL, since I was going to have new blinds, eventually, in the kitchen, I threw out the curtains and started to peel the wallpaper. This gave me my second "stupid people take short cuts" experience. The walls were NEVER PAINTED!!! The wallpaper was just put up over the drywall. We started in one corner and everything was not going to bad. When we turned the corner, it really turned! The wallpaper was coming off and as an added bonus it decided to bring some drywall with it. We bought a Tiger Paw, (a wallpaper removal must have) and some DIF that you mix with water. We "pawed" the wall and sprayed it down. Scrapers in hand we hit the wall only to have the same problem only now it was wet and goopy. I called Home Depot and asked what we should do. Tom said the only thing we can do is steam it and "hope for the best". I thanked him for his help to which he replied "have fun". We can't wait to start mudding to fix it!!
<-----Part of the wall after trying everything by steaming.
