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I'm updating my office, which doubles as a comic room, and triples as a guest room. The old wallpaper offended my eyes, and I couldn't ignore it any longer. Emboldened by the time at home due to CO-19, I committed myself to stripping the wallpaper and updating this room. Our house is about 60 years old, and it's been in my family for about 40 of those years, most of them with my maternal grandparents. My wife, young son, and I have lived here for about 6 1/2 years. From the day we moved in, my wife and I have worked on the house, though not as extensively as we'd like. We have peeled wallpaper and painted walls, refinished the wood floors in rooms where we had removed carpet, and completed similar improvements. So I knew what I was getting into right? Right? The first layer of wallpaper revealed a second layer. I should have foreseen it, but enough time had passed that my memory failed. Or maybe it was the weed? Regardless, MORE wallpaper. So the top layer of wallpaper came off fairly routinely. The second one, though, has told a different tale. Before hanging the new wallpaper, someone skimcoated the original wallpaper, so I've been steaming my way through that mess. The bottom layer is as old as the house. It was pasted directly onto the original drywall, which is still intact but suffering patches of superficial damage depending on how patient I am with the steamer. Or maybe that's the weed, too? Dunno. Anyhow... I have probably four more hours of work getting the wallpaper down. Then I will clean the walls and floors, move furniture and comics back into the room, and live in it as is until the fall when I'll have more cash to get a professional to do the walls properly and let someone else paint it. I left these postcards on the pocket door so I would have something soothing in the room. The closet is more overstuffed than usual.
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