Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Living room wallpaper

I've been working on the living room for the past few days. Here is the last picture I posted of the living room back in june.



Just after this I had done a lot of work on the room but was then diverted off to other things so I left the room unfinished. There were at least 3 layers of wallpaper on the walls and multiple coats of paint between at least 2 layers.

The original plan was to remove all the wallpaper and paint the walls. This proved a lot more difficult than we had originally thought.

The ideal solution wold have been to buy some awesome Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper and hang that over the old wallpaper, but because I'm not made of money that wasn't an option.

The solution I found was paintable wallpaper. The plus is that it's cheap, we got it on clearance for $10 a roll. The minus is that you have to do twice the work, first wallpaper, then paint.

I had gotten as far a wallpapering about 70% of the room before I had to move on to other things  a few months back. Since we spend most of our time in this room I decided it was time to finish it.

First I patched up a few areas of the plaster that needed it.



Then I rolled on a coat of wallpaper primer.



And then I installed the wallpaper.




Once the wallpaper was dry I was able to paint. First I painted all the trim, then rolled on the paint, then cut in. That took longer than I had anticipated because the trim paint took a lot longer to dry than I thought. I think it's because it's semi-gloss. I'm used to satin, which drys fairly fast.

Once it was all dry I moved our furniture in.







I have not done anything above the picture rail yet, there is wallpaper up there that needs to come down then I'll paint it a very light tan, almost white.

5 comments:

Victoria said...

wow, that looks amazing, I love your decor too! Wallpaper is the biggest pain in the butt! Can't wait to see it all finished!

Chris said...

What color did you paint the wallpaper?

Jason and Heather said...

Thanks Victoria!

Chris, We actually found it in the oops pile at Lowes for $7. It's Olympic Premium, this is what is on the sticker:

Tinter A
MANUAL DISPENSE
101-36 107-7Y20 116-2Y4 113-1Y4

Chris said...

Well I think it's a lovely color!

Sandy said...

It looks so very nice! The color is gorgeous!