Check out those marvelous mauve murs. We can probably just leave it like that, right? No need to put in all the work we had planned? After all, it already feels so much brighter in here.
NOT. Oh, you guys. It's going to get so so SO much better. Just you wait and see...
P.S. If you're looking for wallpaper removal tips, I think it probably depends on the quality of the wallpaper you're removing. For ours, we used spray bottles of boiling water (be very careful - the bottles get super hot and one of them - a cheaper/thinner one - actually crumpled) and spackle knives. The longer the water sits (up to a point), the easier it is to scrape the wallpaper off. We basically just sprayed a bunch of the area we were working on; let it sit for a minute and then used the knife to peel up the edges. After you get started, you can spray ahead so you don't need to wait. In some areas that have been well-sprayed, you can peel off huge strips off paper with your hands instead of the knife. The wallpaper comes off in two layers - the top coloured bit and the white sticky underlayer - we actually found the top bit the hardest to remove, but the whole process was much easier (although still time consuming) than we had imagined.
Oh boy what a difference already! Hooray for no blue floral wallpaper! Great tips about removing wallpaper, I have a border in one of my bedrooms that needs to come down.
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