Our first step before fully unpacking and hanging things up is painting all the walls, and of course wallpaper must come down BEFORE that. We have been basically battling this cream 60's style floral print this entire week. Some places are easier than others *picture below is me doing okay*, and some places make me want to punch the wall.
1. You're supposed to be able to peel the first layer (the actual print) off pretty easy by starting at the top corner and peeling it all off.
2. Then you're left with a cardboard-ish paper glued to the actual wall. You get it soaking wet (cover any outlets first!!!!) and using a flat wide scraper, scrape it all away.
3. That's it. This is luckily what I encountered in the dining room.
Unfortunately it hasn't been that easy everywhere else. In the hallways, it is SUPER EXTRA glued. Like, ridiculous. The first layer won't peel off at all, and you can't just soak the cardboard-y paper enough to scrape it off until you peel that top layer off...so you can see where our problem has been. We've been trying to scrape it off painstakingly little by little, until we hit drywall, but it's taking forever and ain't nobody got time for that. Chreston even sanded it to speed up the process (I don't know if that's good or not but it kinda worked so whatevs).
Anyway, I just needed to vent a little, and chronicle battle #1. After we can get the wallpaper fully off, we will paint and start unpacking, YES!
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