I
even started on the bedside tables - I replaced the photo of my best
friend in NY with a photo of a butterfly and tidied up my pink pouffe - which I use as a shelf.
The plan is to continue by piling the books on the right to the
left, emptying the slot on the left, removing the box on the right,
putting the pink pouffe stuff into the slot on the left, and removing
the pink pouffe.
But
before all that palaver, I began on a major task thtn turned into a
total nightmare. My friend L loaned me her wallpaper machine again -
as seen in these photos.
As
you can also see, there was 30+ year old green floral print wallpaper
on the walls in what WILL be our spare room. The paper had been
present since my teens, as evidenced by a photograph. The above photo
shows the damp patch which hopefully will no longer be damp now I
have mortared the exterior brickwork and had the heater on for two weeks.
The
former paper was an orange print and I recalled this layer from my
childhood as soon as I began to strip the green stuff off. I also
located a thin white paper that was 'before my time' covering flaky
green paint. I began....
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