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November 14, 2013

Praying For Anti-Freeze

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Hell, when I repaired the central stairwell and upstairs hallway, every single layer of wallpaper going back to William McKinley was still on the wall. The original was beautiful. It was a rich green, flecked with a bronze-y tone in metallic ink. The layer over it was a less fine but still nice 1940's block print in a sort of classical revival motif. There was a fifties chinoiserie attempt on there after that --not bad. There were two or three more layers of meh. The room got bigger just by removing the wallpaper. - - Sippican Cottage

Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 14, 2013 2:30 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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LOL. One homeowner framed an area of the wall with each layer of wall paper peeled back as though displaying a work of art or of history. I'm surprised removing the wall paper didn't cause the plaster to crumble.


Do they still make that spongy clay product that cleans soot off wall paper ?

Posted by: grace at November 14, 2013 9:21 PM

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