My 70's House: Removing 70's Wallpaper: Part 2

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Removing 70's Wallpaper: Part 2

After spending two weeks on the wallpaper removal project, I was left with the damaged wall (pictured below).

I was thinking I might have to hire someone to put a heavy wallpaper. The estimated cost for hiring someone to do that was $300. Ouch. But my handyman told me that I need to sand the wall and prime it. He said he would fix damaged areas after I prime the wall. I hate sanding but I had no choice.

Sanding prep. It's going to get really messy!

Sanding prep.

Before sanding. Already very unhappy about the task ahead.

The wall after sanding & priming. It looks so much better.

My handyman & his wife suggested that I could do textured painting and avoid wallpaper. Brilliant. I searched online and saw "faux painting". There are different kinds of faux painting. Sponging, ragging, colorwashing, frottage, dragging, etc etc. I went to the home depot and a nice painting guy there said sponge painting is definitely easier. I thought I liked the look of frottage but I didn't want to mess it up so I decided to go with sponging.

This is the after the first coat of sponging. The painting definitely hide the damage of the wall. And the wall looks "interesting" but not so great. The wall somehow made me think of virus in a petri dish.

So I went for the second coat of sponging. It looks better. kind of.

After.

By the way I can't really recommend sponge painting. It takes forever. I was sponge painting until 2AM. Great way to spend my Friday night.

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