It's a three bedroom, two bath ranch-style house with a 0.41 acre lot (HUGE!) and it has a massive kitchen, big family room with a fireplace, and a semi-garage. After getting the house inspected, we discovered that this place needed more work than what we thought. We need to replace the bathroom floors, we need to repair the bathroom plumbing (it's leaking), and we need to tear down the semi-garage and rebuild it due to a cracked driveway and beetle/bug damage in the actual structure.
The back bedroom was covered in butcher paper that was covered with a glaze. And how did they get the butcher paper on the walls, you might ask? Wallpaper glue. Yay. And the carpet was all stained and smelled funky. This is what we had to look forward to taking down:
Last night, Sam had it in him to take down ALL the brown butcher paper. And with Felicia's help, we have it pretty close to gone. Here are some pictures we took before dinner, keeping in mind that we were peeling down paper until 11pm at night:
Of course, nothing is as easy as it seems, so when Sam started peeling away brown paper that had blue paint attached, he wondered why... and kept peeling. Only to find drywall tape and plaster... and some possible drywall. It was a mess! The blue paint was covering up the drywall- it was weird. There was paper, blue paint, plaster/drywall, more paper, and then the green paint that was on the other walls. Weird. He decided NOT to rip it all down, but to keep it up and fix it. Apparently, looking at the size of the "repair," the back bedroom used to have a sliding glass door in it! They patched it up (poorly) and put in a window! Crazy.
I just can't wait until this back bedroom is DONE and has no more brown paper on it... which should be tonight! YAY! Oh, wait- we aren't painting until the weekend. hehe
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