Reconstruction

This shows the very beginning of a process that made me think that Hell should be being forced to scrape and texture walls for the rest of eternity. The thing that got me through was knowing how stunning it was going to look when I eventually finished.

The Deconstruction

On May 15th we got the keys to our home....we joked that we were going to have the bed in the back of the truck when we went to closing. It didn't work out that way, but the bed was in the livingroom by 3pm. Bright and early-ish the next morning deconstruction commenced.
We love this house, but the paneling had to go...what a chore that became, but well worth it to have flat, smooth walls.

Beyond the paneling was two layers of wallpaper that had to be dealt with...by hand......until we discovered that the compressor hose and orbital sander made the job much more fun.