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madrobinsOne of the things I fell in love with in this house was the downstairs wallpaper: this wonderful raffia stuff over dull silver and copper foil. (Yes, it sounds horrid. In practice, it looks like the walls in the un-renovated 50s-era parts of the Museum of Natural History). So, of course, it's in terrible shape, and after two-and-a-half years (and one pretty dramatic leak through one wall and part of the downstairs hall ceiling), we got a dog, and of course, Emily has been slowly peeling shreds of raffia off the walls. It's no longer so charming, and what I want is to have it gone, and the walls neatly painted. I've found that the only way to get action on a program like this is to destroy what's there, so that action is unavoidable.
Thus, about a month ago, I tried pulling at a corner of the raffia, and a whole swath came down. Now about eighty percent of the raffia is gone. And now I've started attacking the wallpaper itself. It's slow going: I scrape about a one-foot by two-foot section done in about half an hour, and since there's no significant rush, I'm doing maybe a section or two a day. Spouse points out that we have to get it scraped and finished and painted before our holiday open house in December (however he has thus far shown himself uninterested in scraping). Maybe I'll do two sections tomorrow.
If I could persuade Emily to chew at the wallpaper as well as the raffia, of course, we'd be in business.
Thus, about a month ago, I tried pulling at a corner of the raffia, and a whole swath came down. Now about eighty percent of the raffia is gone. And now I've started attacking the wallpaper itself. It's slow going: I scrape about a one-foot by two-foot section done in about half an hour, and since there's no significant rush, I'm doing maybe a section or two a day. Spouse points out that we have to get it scraped and finished and painted before our holiday open house in December (however he has thus far shown himself uninterested in scraping). Maybe I'll do two sections tomorrow.
If I could persuade Emily to chew at the wallpaper as well as the raffia, of course, we'd be in business.