IT'S DONE!!!!!!

It's done, it's done, it's finally freaking done! Brendan's room is finished. It didn't take as long to do his room as I thought, although it probably would have been quicker had I not had kids around!!!

This is the room after I tore down the first layer of stuff. I forgot to take some before pictures, but basically the room was a lavendar color over wallpaper, and the paper was bubbling in the corners which prompted me to peel it all off. As far as I can figure, the layers were as follows: 2-3 layers of paint, paper, a weird mesh layer. These are the layers you see on the floor in this first picture. They peeled off of the walls easily without scoring or Dif and took me very little time. Yay! The layers underneath (I think) were two really old layers of wallpaper with border. They were so old, that with some scoring and Dif, that paper came off super easily. Underneath was old, discolored and cracked plaster. There were no holes, and there was no buckling of the plaster, so all I had to do was patch a bit and sand the walls before priming and painting!


This is a sample of the wallpaper and border I found closest to the plaster. Anyone want to venture a guess as to the age of the paper? I'm guessing 50's. My house was built somewhere aorund 1918-1922.


The after. I used two colors of blue, on opposite sides. I love the colors, and love how they turned out. I'm please with my choice.


Brendan's bed. The only thing left is a bedskirt for his bed. I won a navy one off of eBay for 3 bucks, so I'm just waiting for that now!!


The absolutely adorable Uppercase Living saying I put on his wall. This is main reason I finally decided to just tear into the paper and finish his room. I bought this phrase back in December and had big plans for it. I think it all turned out great.