reno and demo: stage 1

Where to even begin....We spent the last weekend taking down wallpaper in an almost 100 year old house that has plaster walls. Let me tell you, wallpaper removal is not fun at all! It's sticky, it's wet and the solvent stinks. We had to remove wallpaper from the kitchen, downstairs bathroom, dining room, and upstairs bedroom. The whole process took all three days of the long Memorial Day weekend. 

In the middle of wallpaper removal our contractor decided to stop by to answer a few questions we had. While he was over he let me borrow a sledge hammer and start taking down the wall in our kitchen. That experience was AMAZING! Taking a huge sledgehammer to a plaster wall was major stress relief, but I had to clean up the mess afterwards-which was not so fun. 

Overall the process and project is coming along quite nicely. The kitchen wall is down to the studs, all the wallpaper is gone, and the basement walls are down to the studs as well. The next project will be to paint the trim and walls upstairs-since there is no work going on up there. Once the upstairs painting is finished, we will start painting downstairs.