You may remember that I wrote a while back about how much I hate removing wallpaper (here) and how I promised to get some photos of the welded on wallpaper in the stairwell and the lack of plaster in one of the bedrooms. Well, at last the photos are here!
This one shows how not only did the wallpaper come off, but also all the plaster including the original clay plaster, so now we just have the original clay lumps left! Thank goodness areas like these will get re-plastered as part of phase 1 as I’m not sure our daughter (whose bedroom it is) will want to be lying under that mess every night!
This shows the nasty wallpaper in the stairwell, which I have now managed to mostly get off before totally losing the will to live! See at the bottom of the stairs the yellow-painted anaglypta which is on top of some blue-painted thick lining paper which is then on top of the green gloss paint – no wonder it’s been a total nightmare trying to get the wretched stuff off! The only bit remaining will actually be in the under-stairs cupboard so I figure that can wait if necessary.
I have also removed all wallpaper in the cupboards in our daughter’s bedroom but now most of the plaster will have to come off as it is so loose! The 2 youngest kids started stripping the yellow striped wallpaper in the master bedroom with their bare hands only to reveal the pink striped wallpaper underneath 
so now we’ll have a very multi-coloured bedroom when we move in as we don’t intend to redecorate for some time (not because we like the wallpaper I hasten to add, just because it’s not a priority!!).
Tags: Clay Lump, Removing Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper Stripping
Categories: Home Improvements, Living the Country Life, Posts with Photos