It is hard to decorate and blog. In fact it is hard to decorate and do very much apart from trash out the entire house and be really grateful to friends and family who invited us out to dinner/sanity in the middle of it.
I stripped wall paper for days............................. . Many days! The kids loved it for short blasts and actually were pretty helpful. I thought that would be the hard work. Wrong! Stripping wall paper was just the boring work. The hard work came after Mike had filled all the holes, scrapes, bumps with polyfilla and it all needed sanded back. I hate sanding. The worst part was the fact that our sander was broken. After a couple of hours of sanding by hand it was replaced, believe me!! It took me 33 minutes to get to the store, purchase and get home. Sanding became tolerable at that point. Covered in fine dust, gagging behind a face mask I heard my partner in design utter those words (with a smirk) ......."Maybe we should just have kept the wall paper!"
I would be lying if I said it had not crossed my mind but I hated that paper, it looked 100% rotten. Change takes work, and lots of work is not much fun. That is the bottom line for this project and many other changes in life. The good thing is that once you have started there is no going back. You can stop half way and be left in a pretty poor, scrappy place or you can push on.
Are we finished? No!! We have smooth, painted walls. A charming white colour. No actually just white. We now have to decide if this is an undercoat or if we are planning to do something funky with it. The gloss work needs done. The carpet needs changed.
Are we finished for now? You better believe it. We are on holiday. All four of us. We are away to play for a few days. The little people are very excited!! And so are we. We have a lot of dust that needs blown away.
(NB the Grape welding/lollipop is still in the fridge unlicked and unused!)
1 comment:
I would suggest that someone in the family might consider painting some murals.
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