Musser Court Update

Allright We ahve been working on musser court very hard and are trying to get rooms livable before our lease agreement  for our house we rent right now ends. Our Landlords agreements go for at least 13 months and if he were to give us an extension of our contract we have now it would be an extra 200 dollars a month so we are now more focused than ever to get most of it done. What we need done now are floors sheetrock  some walls and paint. and the rest we can work on when we are down there. We are trying to have our housewarming and Evias first birthday down there. It is now officially crunch time. And even David got an extra day off from work so we can go work on the house. So if anybody has some cheap decorating ideas please let me know. Evias room aka the care bear room is almost done we need one more coat of sheetrock mud and sanding then we can paint!!! Yay! The bathroom David put up two of the four peices that need to go in. We also looked up estimates for windows ad think we found some good deals that work with the tax rebate on saving energy.

Evia just hangs out in her port a crib we call it the cage. But she loves playing with her lambie and toys at least she can crawl around which makes her happy. so the big question in life right now is How much wallpaper does a 100 plus year old house have? HHMMMM to answer your question you must look what is underneath. Here is before

And here is after

 we ripped off all of the paper

Now it doesn't look like we have gotton much done in the seagull room  but we have ripped off 12 yep that is right!! Twelve different wallpapers in one room. We were thinking four or five but as I peeled back each layer the numbers kept coming kind of like a Mary Poppins carpet bag! We used rags sponges and paint peeling palettes to remove the layers once you get the wall soaking wet the paper came off fairly easy,but where it was still dry it was like trying to remove super glue. We were happy to see The blue Venetian plaster behind all of the wall paper was in fairly good shape, we just needed to patch holes and prime it and these walls should be ready for paint as well. But painting will have to wait till we get all rooms deconstructed.

Here is what 100 years of wallpaper looks like. Also between some layers of wallpaper were layers of plaster the hardest and last layer of plaster was on a thin brown paper . We would have just painted over this layer but as soon as you got it wet the dust from the paper would turn the wall all brown. The first day we did this my hands ached when we got home my hand was on that tool most of the day.