& the wall paper

Here ya go, it sucks....please help. Here are the dramatic pics of our hall way, with the scraped off/painted wall paper. Once it all comes off....we then have to sand it, then paint. It takes FOREVER! Oh yea, forgot to mention that the entire master bedroom walls are that way too. Steamers don't work, been there done that....remember that the wall paper has been painted on, and it only comes off one inch at a time, piece by piece, by piece, by piece...arg....its really a pain in the you know what.

more pics

The two pics above are of the guest room, I bought every thing separately, started with the curtains from the old apartment, the dresser is a hand-me-down from my family, then I bought the comforter set because I loved it and it was on sale for $60 from Target....The brown pillow is from the old couches, and I accidentally found the floral pics from Old Time Pottery for $11!! That was a great find. Oh, and the hanging star is from a friend of a friend that came to my old apartment once and knew that I liked lanterns. The start has a place for a tea light to light the mood.

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Here is my couch, end table and spinning chair, in my living room..not in the store and that is hard to believe because HOME PLACE takes soooo long to deliver! I hope you read this Home Place CEO!

............it is really hard to cut the chair rail at the exact angle to hang there (where the white is).

New Furniture!

Oh yea, wanted to show my most valuable project...the knobs and handles we added (for a buck a piece) to the drawers and cabinets. Who wouldn't want handles on their cabinets, that is one thing that I never understood.

Yay for the bathroom!

New Mirrors...and light fixture.

The tile...the paint, the chair rail...all to much to handle...love it so. But ....if you look closely we bought the same grout, twice, added the same amount of water, twice, and it turned out different colors. Ridiculous! ...that is part of the one percent that we still need to fix.

I can't belive we finally have black chairs to match our black table. We found them for 60 bucks each at a ware house, and there Ashley. We did have to assemble them our selves, but once again, we saved a bundle by shopping around. Most places sell their chairs for around 100-120 bucks each.

I am so excited...the bathroom is 99% finished! AND....our furniture is here, well we finally got it delivered on Saturday, then my husband started to assemble the coffee table (it came in a box, and even though we paid for the set up, the loosers did NOT set it up) and then one of the screws on the leg broke, and the only way that we could fix it was with Gorilla Glue. Sorry, but this coffee table was a couple hundred bucks, and Gorilla Glue is not going to be the answer! So, after my husband called HOME PLACE!! and bitched, we finally got our coffee table, that came assembled and all of our new pieces are here! Now we have to decide on how to arrange it. We have an L shaped living room, so if you have any ideas let me know.

Next project: scraping off all the wall paper in the hall way. And please don't advise that we use a steamer, the best solution to removing wall paper that has been painted on is to use a spray bottle full of plain tap water, then drench the wall, and scrape off inch by inch with a putty knife. Wish us luck.

We also got the carpets cleaned, call around...you will be surprised on the different variations of price.