Wallpaper....sucks

I've mentioned before that my
friend Candice and I do Interior
Decorating together. It's a passion
for both of us and we have a lot
of fun working together! BUT
IT IS HARD WORK! For example...
for the last two weeks we've
been working on the bathrooms
at a house of a friend of mine.
Her house is about 12 years old--
although she just bought it 6 years
ago, and she's ready to have it
updated! The original owners who
built the house decided it was
a good idea to wall paper...everywhere...
floor to ceiling... straight onto
the drywall. Crap. Now, I understand
that wallpaper had it's day. I learned
to hang wallpaper from my dad as
we hung it at my house growing up...
along with the bad words he said
when he was doing it... :) But as I
said, wallpaper HAD it's day....
and that day is NOT today...
Let me tell you. Trying to remove
wallpaper from drywall is a pain
in the butt! Usually, we do a Venetian
plaster right over the top of it, or some
bead board wainscot, but i n the kids'
bathroom we're doing, she would
just like it painted, thus... the
removal of the offending paper, so
that we can re-texture the wall and
do a nice linen faux finish on it.
We've been at it for two weeks....
technically it's been 6 days because
we only work up there on M,W, and F....
but dang! The Master Bath has been
better... we've only had to remove some
of the wallpaper because it was already
coming off... the rest, we've been able
to plaster over, and we began the demo
on the tile. Here's some pics of the last
house we did....


















Master Bathroom with
Crazy, Migraine-inducing wallpaper before....





















Master Bathroom -after (but before we got
the cabinet doors back on..)














Mucho better, no?
















And here we have the Master Bath-tub area before...




















And after....I'd MUCH rather soak in that tub...
















Here's the Master Bed before....
there's NO WAY I could sleep with that retina
burning yellow....it would still seem like
daytime when you closed your eyes!
















Ahhhhh! NOW you can relax and go to sleep...

Master bed-after


Let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we?
These are wallpapers from the '70's








































































Oh BOY!!! This one comes in 2 colors!
and below we've got the nice and soft flocked paper...















































































Dang those are ugly...yep...everyone was on drugs...

Next we move into the '80's
Lots of florals and lots of Blue and Mauve...
My mom has always been good at decorating, so we did
indeed have a blue and mauve house...and I loved it!
...but that was in the '80's...















































Next, we move into the 90's
Everyone was sick of the light colors
and so we moved into the darker, more rich colors
like Forest Green and Burgundy...my wedding colors...
and Navy with the Burgundy....again,
served it's purpose for the time...


















































































Now we're in a new century, and
although wallpaper is pretty
much "out" in most area of the
house...there are still some
good uses for it...like accent
walls...just please apply it to a
painted wall (preferably a satin
or semi-gloss finish) So that
when you get sick of it...
and you WILL get sick of it ...
when you call us to come and
take it off,,,it will be MUCH
easier on your walls...and us!!... :)

These are some of the pretty and
up-to-date Damask, and Brocade papers
that are out there right now...also,
you can't really go wrong with a
classic Toile...I still prefer paint,
and then accent these patterns in
your pillows, window treatments, etc...
































































































SO...in conclusion....and I realize this
post is ENTIRELY too long...but I've
just got to be the Simon Cowell for a
minute here....IF you have ANY of the
70's, 80's, or 90's type wallpaper in
your home,it's time to update...
it will increase the value of your home up to
$50,000 !!! Seriously! No one else
loves you enough to tell you,
so I am going to be the bad guy here...
UPDATE!!! You'll be SO glad you did!