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Farewell, fruit
By Moriah on January 16th, 2010
(Why do I do these things to myself?)
As you can see, I ripped out over half of one wall of wallpaper once the kids were in bed last night. Thankfully it’s the kind that comes off very easily when wet.
I’m not sure why most of it was olive green and then there’s that patch of mint above the sink. I should have known that wallpaper in an old house is most surely hiding SOMEthing.
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My sweet sister-in-law gave us a new membership to the children’s museum that she got from work (they don’t have kids yet). We met my friend Sarah and her kids there yesterday morning. Andy came along for crowd control – between the two of us we have eight kids, six and under.
He was even kind enough to paint their faces:
Maybe “paint” is too generous a term. ;)
8 Responses to “Farewell, fruit”
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Because you are made out of half me!!! I was thinking…you like happy colors so why not paint your kitchen a color or two that you really like instead of the gray…it doesn’t cost that much and you may like it better…just a thought! love you, Mom
At first I thought you were cutting fruit out of your diet, and I was about to start feeling sorry for you! But any purging of ugly wallpaper is tops in my book. I specifically did not buy a house that had wallpaper in it because I HATE removing it! Wallpaper is evil!
Are you going to paint? If so, what color? Our kitchen unfortunately has a dark green tile backsplash, which kind of limits the colors you can use. I would love to have a really bright red, or something like that, but we settled for a minty green.
We did away with fruity wallpaper too! I only like the edible kind.
When we started taking the kitchen wallpaper down in our first home, there were 4 or 5 layers. One of them was orange and yellow roosters??? Glad that it is going well – and you haven’t found any water damage ;)
Use a little fabric softner in the water and it REALLY helps to take off wall paper, not sure why. When we moved to our house (3600 Sq Ft) basically all of it had 80’s – 70’s themed wall paper – oiyh!
i’m so sorry that i’m laughing at that – that always happens to me with every home improvement project!
At least the mint green on her face matches the mint green on your walls!
I love the peek of M’s polka dot dress…so cute!
And are you going to paint your kitchen walls? What color?