House p.7 - the best room!
We come now to the shining jewel of home-décor - the back bedroom!
In one room, we have wallpaper that is simultaneously dark and loud and floral, we have wood paneling of the eco-friendly tree-free variety, we have old beat-up carpet, and we have adhesive black rubber baseboards. The shelves full of Elvis dolls can’t stay, unfortunately.
(and yes, the brighter colors are the true ones. my phone-camera tends to be unsaturated)
This room will be excellent practice for us - it’s where we’ll start the wallpaper ripping, where we’ll first take a pry-bar to our new house, where we’ll first try installing carpet, and where I’ll learn to cut molding for baseboards. Probably a fine place to start the painting, too, though I have no idea what color. If it were white/cream, I’d leave it white/cream, but I feel kind of lame choosing white/cream out of every color available to us. If you were a guest room, what color would you be? It can’t speak to us, it is drowned out by green and pink wallpaper. Maybe pale gray?
It’s quite possible that the carpet we will install will be simply moved upstairs from the living room, directly below it. That carpet seems rather new (I’d hate to think they installed it to sell, but maybe so), and it’s the same carpet in the office, the living room, and the stairwell, very similar to that in the next bedroom but not quite. So, if it fits right, that's the plan, though we're prepared to go get different anonymous carpet if we have to. The other back-up plan to lay is what to do if the wallpaper causes problems. We know there are at least 4 layers - we could see in the corner where it's starting to peel back. There may well be lead paint sandwiched in there; we should probably run a home test swab before we start ripping into it. And with multiple layers, it's possible the amount of time we've set aside for wallpaper stripping will be inadequate. Not to mention, what if the bottom layers are covering a wall in terrible shape that we can't really just paint. Lots of compound and smoothing and sanding? Pick our own wallpaper? Do a paper that's designed as a paintable base-coat? So long as we've got options, we don't really have to pick one yet.
In one room, we have wallpaper that is simultaneously dark and loud and floral, we have wood paneling of the eco-friendly tree-free variety, we have old beat-up carpet, and we have adhesive black rubber baseboards. The shelves full of Elvis dolls can’t stay, unfortunately.
(and yes, the brighter colors are the true ones. my phone-camera tends to be unsaturated)
This room will be excellent practice for us - it’s where we’ll start the wallpaper ripping, where we’ll first take a pry-bar to our new house, where we’ll first try installing carpet, and where I’ll learn to cut molding for baseboards. Probably a fine place to start the painting, too, though I have no idea what color. If it were white/cream, I’d leave it white/cream, but I feel kind of lame choosing white/cream out of every color available to us. If you were a guest room, what color would you be? It can’t speak to us, it is drowned out by green and pink wallpaper. Maybe pale gray?
It’s quite possible that the carpet we will install will be simply moved upstairs from the living room, directly below it. That carpet seems rather new (I’d hate to think they installed it to sell, but maybe so), and it’s the same carpet in the office, the living room, and the stairwell, very similar to that in the next bedroom but not quite. So, if it fits right, that's the plan, though we're prepared to go get different anonymous carpet if we have to. The other back-up plan to lay is what to do if the wallpaper causes problems. We know there are at least 4 layers - we could see in the corner where it's starting to peel back. There may well be lead paint sandwiched in there; we should probably run a home test swab before we start ripping into it. And with multiple layers, it's possible the amount of time we've set aside for wallpaper stripping will be inadequate. Not to mention, what if the bottom layers are covering a wall in terrible shape that we can't really just paint. Lots of compound and smoothing and sanding? Pick our own wallpaper? Do a paper that's designed as a paintable base-coat? So long as we've got options, we don't really have to pick one yet.