Every Wall Tells a Story

I’ll admit, the “office” has been the most underwhelming room in the house thus far. I mean, it’s perfectly pleasant, light and bright. But it had so obviously been altered, and not well, that it was just kind of “blah.”

So “blah” that I don’t even have a before pic. Oops.

But the room needed some materials removed, and in doing so, the walls reveled layer upon layer of wallpaper history.

Stripping away wallpaper reveals institutional-green walls.
I love this one – pinecones and pineneedles
The barest hint of leaves
Finally, just impressions of what has to be a striking wall covering
More impressions of red
The stripped-down room.

The wonderful experience of working on an old house is the mystery of never knowing what you’re going to find. Throughout the demo, I’ve loathed the feeling that I’m missing things. But we’ve also found a lot of surprises along the way (more on that soon) and the lowly office is just one example.

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