Over the Memorial Day weekend, my mom and I finally finished the painting of the room formerly known as my bedroom, which is on its way to becoming my mom’s office/sewing room.
Way back in March of 2005, the room appeared as it had for years, except there used to be more things on the walls, which I’m sure you can all imagine easily:
Then we cleared out the room and started the soul-crushingly slow process of removing 80+ years of wallpaper and paint. We knew it was going to take a bit longer than we thought early in the first day when walls looked like so:
… and then the earth cooled … the waters receeded …
My mom had worked on the room off and on over the months, but it was more than a year later when we started again in earnest. Eventually we got down to the original walls, a brown plaster (no crappy drywalls here) with the dark border around the top.
The walls were in rather good condition considering their age. Just some minor patching was required. The final weekend went so much faster than all the scraping. We did two coats of primer, the base color paint and the stripes in three days. Two days really since the paint had to dry for at least 24 hours before we put the stripes on. Hours all total between the two of us, I figure we spent at least a week and a half of 6-8 hour days scraping those walls. Painting over wallpaper should be a crime.
In the end, there were stripes! I’ll have to get a better picture later on after she puts the shelves up (which will be black). I couldn’t believe we actually finished it and it was getting late on Monday afternoon, going into evening, so I just snapped a few quick pictures before heading home.
And for those who are really interested: photographs of the entire process.
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