So my downstairs bathroom is covered in pink and white striped wallpaper (circa 1970-something) and I'm finally tired of looking at it. I bought my home in September of 2008, nearly a year ago, and I haven't done anything with the downstairs bathroom. I'm trying to decide if I should put my house up for sale, and I want to make sure the bathroom is redone before then.
I bought some chemical wallpaper remover a few weeks from Lowe's and I decided this week will be the week I actually tackle the issue. I've never removed wallpaper before, so this was a new experience for me. I started on it yesterday evening, and I got the first layer of wallpaper off (that would be the lovely pink and white striped wallpaper). I've discovered that the previous owners of my home had another layer of wallpaper on the wall, so I spent most of today removing that layer, which appeared to be light beige. Why not just paint the wall light beige? Why go through the pain of papering the wall light beige?
Anyway, I took a step back to survey my work and I realize that I've now removed what appears to be the paper layer on the sheetrock covering the walls. How is that possible?
Because I'm tired and I cannot afford to call Bob Villa, or even a distant cousin of Bob Villa, and because I have a better than average imagination I've decided to "pretend" in this case. Because the previous home owners (who, according to my neighbor, were nut jobs anyway) decided that it was fine to put up plain beige wallpaper, I'm going to pretend that they also felt it was fine to put up plain grey wallpaper too! That means I'm not removing the sheetrock actually, just another layer of wallpaper!
--Fortuitous Observer
