04-28-2012, 10:06 AM
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.
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.