(04-27-2012, 09:43 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: Anyone know of a good wallpaper remover?

Hot water in a bucket with about half a cup of fabric softener. Score the wallpaper, soak a big carwash sponge in the bucket and wet the wallpaper. It will peel right off after it soaks in for a few minutes. Gets the glue off, too. Smells great.

(04-27-2012, 06:50 PM)Cracker Wrote: Hot water in a bucket with about half a cup of fabric softener.

I recently saw you refer to using fabric softener for something else as well. Did you clean your walls or woodwork with it? I'm almost certain it had to do with cleaning, at the time I thought what a great idea and poof it was gone.

(04-27-2012, 07:00 PM)Duchess Wrote:

I recently saw you refer to using fabric softener for something else as well. Did you clean your walls or woodwork with it? I'm almost certain it had to do with cleaning, at the time I thought what a great idea and poof it was gone.

When I wash the washable walls (not flat paints) and blinds I put a capful in the bucket. Not too much, you don't want a film, just the smell.

(04-27-2012, 07:08 PM)Cracker Wrote:

(04-27-2012, 07:00 PM)Duchess Wrote:

I recently saw you refer to using fabric softener for something else as well. Did you clean your walls or woodwork with it? I'm almost certain it had to do with cleaning, at the time I thought what a great idea and poof it was gone.

When I wash the washable walls (not flat paints) and blinds I put a capful in the bucket. Not too much, you don't want a film, just the smell.

I'm gonna try that when I clean my blinds this weekend.

I read in some "household tips" article about using the dryer softner sheets (after they've been used) to clean the computer screen. Works great, no streaks, picks up the lint.

My goodness, what an undertaking! Hard work for sure but certainly doable. I used this gel stuff called "DIF" and a paper scraper and an old metal spatula. It took me 5 hours to completely scrape and patch and make a horrid mess, but its done. I'm going to get paint today. I'm going with a very very very light soft green and a very soft white. Ill see if I can copy and paste the link to the shower curtain with the colors, very often ill see something, like a pillow or a towel with a color on it and ill think to myself 'thats a pretty color' and then i go from there. I'm buying new hardware as well to match the light, which is new. Its brushed nickel. I like doing things like this anyway, it doesn't take much to slap on a coat of paint or scrape off wallpaper, just some hard work. I wouldn't want to do it for a living or anything, but its fun to do it my own home. Besides, with maggots remodel going on, I've been itching to do something.

(04-28-2012, 08:37 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: My goodness, what an undertaking! Hard work for sure but certainly doable. I used this gel stuff called "DIF" and a paper scraper and an old metal spatula. It took me 5 hours to completely scrape and patch and make a horrid mess, but its done. I'm going to get paint today. I'm going with a very very very light soft green and a very soft white. Ill see if I can copy and paste the link to the shower curtain with the colors, very often ill see something, like a pillow or a towel with a color on it and ill think to myself 'thats a pretty color' and then i go from there. I'm buying new hardware as well to match the light, which is new. Its brushed nickel. I like doing things like this anyway, it doesn't take much to slap on a coat of paint or scrape off wallpaper, just some hard work. I wouldn't want to do it for a living or anything, but its fun to do it my own home. Besides, with maggots remodel going on, I've been itching to do something.

Awesome job. I bet it will be beautifuul when finished.

You know we are going to want pics.

(04-28-2012, 08:37 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: I'm going to get paint today.

Oh good, you haven't bought your paint yet. In paint, you get what you pay for. Ralph Lauren is a wonderful product, costs a little more but totally worth it, also Consumer Reports gives Home Depot's Behr paint their highest score, it's another wonderful product.

I'd ask if I could help if I were around there. I have a couple of never ending projects here but it's at the point where a saw is needed and I'm not comfortable doing that on my own, however I can now handle a nail gun like nobodies business.

I think if I paint my bathroom, I might use a soft but not too soft of a yellow. I like bright colors. Anyone here into painting their house with like blacks, grays, or reds? I never got that. If so, explain why? I do not want to live in the pits of hell.

This is the link to the shower curtain. Of course it's out of stock online and not available in stores, so I'm looking for one like it. I'm going to HD today to get the paint, I don't mind paying a little extra for good paint, and with the kids, I want the kind it's easily wiped down and the paint won't come off.




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(04-28-2012, 09:12 AM)JsMom Wrote: I think if I paint my bathroom, I might use a soft but not too soft of a yellow. I like bright colors. Anyone here into painting their house with like blacks, grays, or reds? I never got that. If so, explain why? I do not want to live in the pits of hell.

I love dark gray on the outside of a house. There's a few houses around here with siding like that and it looks really nice, with a white porch and black shutters. I think its different, but not so different your neighbors will bitch about it. I think, though, that I like it because of living in florida, where every damn house is tan, white or brown, sometimes yellow. I don't recall seeing blues or greens and no one has siding, its all stucco.

When we bought this 100+ year-old house we didn't realize how much work it would take to restore it. Never ending! The hardest job that I can recall was stripping wallpaper - every room. The worst was the big entry foyer, the dining room, and the living room. There were 9 layers of wallpaper in these three rooms (think super glue was used every time it was papered). We did this during the summer since I was out of school. My husband and I did it all - before we had central air installed.

The front staircase and the back staircase were a delight too. Over 17 feet tall in some places. he rigged up some type of scaffolding and worked right above me. I can still vividly recall his aromatic sweat dripping down on me - this was when we were through stripping (let me clarify that - stripping wallpaper) and putting up new wallpaper. We couldn't move from our positions until the paper was in place which took forever.

Someone said that nobody buys wallpaper anymore. Some people do since almost every room in this old house is papered. Alas, we now have to hire someone to do the work around here when necessary. I wonder if our ages have anything to do with it.

My girlfriend just bought a very old house with every square inch covered in wallpaper. On every wall. In every cupboard - they wallpapered the INSIDE of the kitchen and bathroom cupboards, shelves, doors and all, even drawers - and even inside the GD closets. Who wallpapers the inside of a friggin closet? It took a month to get all the damn paper down. I thought she was going to insane. Wallpaper seems to be an elderly person thing. The people that lived here before were elderly, there's paper in the kitchen and upon investigation, more than one layer. Greeeeeaaaaaattttttt......

o no! :(

It took a month to get all the damn paper down.

That's not that long for an entire home. We spent the whole summer just doing the 3 above-mentioned rooms. (10' tall and then include the ceilings)



Wallpaper seems to be an elderly person thing.

Yeah, throw that in! We were 32 and 33 when we bought this house.

(04-28-2012, 11:00 AM)Teacher Wrote: It took a month to get all the damn paper down.

That's not that long for an entire home. We spent the whole summer just doing the 3 above-mentioned rooms. (10' tall and then include the ceilings)



Wallpaper seems to be an elderly person thing.

Yeah, throw that in! We were 32 and 33 when we bought this house.

I bet it is beautiful after all that hard work. I love old homes. When I bought this home it was the only home here. Now it's a neighborhood.

(04-28-2012, 08:37 AM)LuciferLynn Wrote: My goodness, what an undertaking! Hard work for sure but certainly doable. I used this gel stuff called "DIF" and a paper scraper and an old metal spatula. It took me 5 hours to completely scrape and patch and make a horrid mess, but its done.

So basically you disregarded all the advice that was given you here? Serves you right it took 5 hours and made a big ass mess.

(04-28-2012, 11:06 AM)JsMom Wrote: When I bought this home it was the only home here. Now it's a neighborhood.

As a buyer, how did you feel about that? Did you have concerns over the number of homes that were projected for that community? I saw the pix for your back yard & it looks like a very generous size. Are you on a 2 or more acre lot? If you find these questions too personal in nature please disregard.

(04-28-2012, 01:20 PM)Duchess Wrote:

(04-28-2012, 11:06 AM)JsMom Wrote: When I bought this home it was the only home here. Now it's a neighborhood.

As a buyer, how did you feel about that? Did you have concerns over the number of homes that were projected for that community? I saw the pix for your back yard & it looks like a very generous size. Are you on a 2 or more acre lot? If you find these questions too personal in nature please disregard.

When I first bought the home I did enjoy the quiet but also knew they were going to be building it up. It's a pretty good neighborhood, I must say. I have an acre and a half. No bad at all for just me and my son. Did I mention, I hate cutting the grass.

Uh oh. I'm afraid the green I got is a little yellow-green. I don't know, I have to look at it more, but I'm not sure I like it.

(04-28-2012, 11:29 PM)LuciferLynn Wrote: Uh oh. I'm afraid the green I got is a little yellow-green. I don't know, I have to look at it more, but I'm not sure I like it.

Tools are sometimes more than expected.

paint colors are as numerous as the wrinkles on the back of your arm.