We've moved on from the tv room into the kitchen, where a couple weeks ago Ray and I tore out 12 layers of wallpaper off the walls! To understand the 12 layers, you have to understand the history of the house. Ray's mother spent the last 15 years, I'm not really certain of the timeframe, caring for her ill husband and mother-in-law. Without any outside help she'd spend an evening after they'd fallen asleep wallpapering as quickly as she could just to have a change of scenery or a fresh look in the kitchen, which was the main gathering area of the house. So, as you can imagine, there wasn't much time to worry about stripping paper, or in some corners, even pulling china cabinets out. So, where in some places there were 8 layers of paper, in other places, maybe there were just 5.
So, we've torn down the wallpaper and are left with bare walls, which we're going to waterproof and drywall, and hopefully never paste another strip of wallpaper to again! Unfortunately, it'll be a couple of weeks until we get that far. But in the meantime we've bought a new fridge which was delivered yesterday. We probably needed it more than anything else in the entire house, as the old one didn't have any doors which were actually attached to it. They would fall off if you opened them carelessly.
With all that said, I leave you with photos!
