Extreme Home Makeover: Boston Edition Pt. 2
I wish that I could go back in time and find the person who invented wallpaper and beat him/her with a crowbar.
I rented a wallpaper steamer and I was thought that, “I’ll get there when they open so I’ll have nearly all day to steam and scrape” and of course Murphy’s Law decided to show itself. Apparently someone thought it’d be a good idea to crimp the hose shut. I thought that the pan (the big thing with holes that you hold against the wall) was blocked and I drove back to Watertown to get a new pan, but when I returned and the same lack of steam was occurring I realized that it was in fact something wrong with the steamer. So I drove back to Watertown again and the guy at the rental place fixed the hose and I could come home again and start steaming. All in all, four hours wasted. I didn’t finally get around to getting something started until about 2:30-3:00 and I didn’t have a whole lot of time since my friend’s birthday gathering is taking place later tonight. So, I’ve managed to get about an 18 inch strip of bare wall. That took the better part of an hour to do. This is definitely an all day project, so hopefully I’m not hung over tomorrow and I can get up fairly early and have it done. If not, then I’ll just have to try and finish it the weekend after Thanksgiving.
The upsetting thing about this is that the underlying wall isn’t in the best shape. It’s an old plaster wall and it’s quite pockmarked with divots and holes and what not. I feel that the only way that I could paint over it and not see all the holes would be to basically cover the entire wall in a layer of plaster. I am not enthused about doing that, so that leaves me with…putting…up…more…wallpaper. It will be on a bare wall, though, instead of on probably 50 years worth of old not-well-adhered wallpaper.
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