Wallpaper Woes

The wallpaper is winning.

Not only is it enmeshed into every corner of the bottom floor of the house, burrowed into every crevice and apparently always covered over with random house details that I now get to take down in order to dig the nuisance out of my walls, but it has learned to shed layers rather than be uprooted from the drywall underneath.  It is shedding layers.  Three or four layers to get even an inch of the stuff off my wall.

I must love my house very much.  Or at least my sanity.

There is some pretty wallpaper out there, stuff that is modern and fresh and clean.

I will never use it.

Once I finally get all the wallpaper off my walls I plan to live a wallpaper-free existence for the rest of my life. I don't think it's an unreasonable life goal.

This is actually an under layer of wallpaper
in the kitchen.

For the sake of posterity, and shared misery being better than misery alone, I thought I'd offer a sampling of the seven (seven!) different wallpaper patterns from the downstairs, and just for fun, I'm including the two upstairs bathroom patterns as a bonus.  Some of the wallpaper is older than the other, and there are differences in the health of the wallpaper, the application of the glue, and I'm sure other things as well that I don't know. Some came off rather easily, and led me into a false security--obviously wallpaper is not that difficult to take down.  Now I know they were just setting me up for the utter crushing disappointment of wallpaper so aged and damaged that it comes off in layers thin enough to see through.

This is the over layer in the kitchen.  This is
the evil stuff that comes off in three layers.

To remove the wallpaper I'm just using a chemical remover and this exciting looking device that pokes holes in the paper evil to let the chemical soak through and (hopefully) into the paste to release it.

This will all be worth it when I get to paint smooth, beautiful walls.

This is in the future game room.

I can believe that.

This is from the hall and what I'll call the
fireplace room.

Downstairs bathroom.

Future living room.

This was hidden under the wood
paneling in the fireplace room.

Upstairs bathroom.

The wallpaper in my son's future bathroom..

..needed more than one image.

To tell the truth I kind of like it in a vintage
older vibe kind of way. But not in my house.