Let's go to the bedroom and strip.

Excited?  You should be!

So the master bedroom had a very special wall.  A wallpapered wall.  Wallpaper had been cut into rectangles and put up on a wall. 

I have to strip this wall.  Please help me.


Black backed paper?

Have you ever stripped wallpaper?  There's three steps. 

1. remove the front paper part
2. remove the backing paper part
3. wash the glue off the wall

I've done this many times before.  The easiest way is to spray warm water on it and start scraping and peeling.  The highlight of the task is when a huge piece of paper peels off in one sheet!  Unfortunately, when you cut it into rectangles before installing it, there are no huge pieces.  Like other projects, I thought this could be done in an afternoon.  When it was all said and done, it was about 36 hours of work. 




I had to.


 

The paper had a foil facing in a kind of wood look.  So the foil wasn't solid and I assume that's why it didn't come off in big sheets.  I got one rectangle to come off as a complete piece and it was at the very end.  Also the backing paper was black....something I've never seen before.....and as it got wet, it created this black mess.  Ugh.  This was a tough one. 

Like other projects, it did get done and felt so good! 

Now to pick a paint color.  Our bed is something we brought with us, so we need to work with an espresso colored frame and light blue/grey fabric.  The living and dining room area will be Pensive Sky by Behr.  The master bath is a very white/blue I created myself.  I need something neutral for the bedroom. 

I finally found a taupe/grey/beige color that is perfect.  It's Chocolate Froth by Behr.  It's soooo soft and soothing.  We have white drapes and the trim is being painted white.




I love the color and with our new wall mounted, swing-arm lamps and new nightstands and dresser, the bedroom is coming together.  I still need art and a mirror. 

By the way, I found the lamps for $20 each at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore here in Atlanta, but they had no shades.  I found shades at Target for $14 each, but they wouldn't fit.   I ended up getting shades at a lighting store for $45 each!  I could have bought new lights.  Oy. 

I wish you could see the color in this photo.  Colors just don't photograph well, or at least with a smart phone they don't.  Sorry.






New nightstands/dresser and Chocolate Froth paint!