More Wallpaper

As much fun as removing wallpaper is, removing painted wallpaper is even more thrilling. The stairwell and upstairs hallway all had painted wallpaper that had to be removed so that we could patch the plaster and paint...and get rid of the stupid looking wallpaper seams.

Here's the before.

Here's the paint scraped off exposing the wallpaper backing

Here's the backing scraped off exposing the plaster. The walls all have a faux texture finish.

The finished product....right now the 'after pictures' looks worse until the walls are painted.

Lesson learned: don't paint over wallpaper.