Sentences with phrase «strip old wallpaper»

I did some «budget - friendly» renovating of my kitchen 2 yrs ago, stripping old wallpaper, putting in the subway tile backsplash, adding bright white beadboard halfway up walls and on the existing white cabinet ends, painting the rest of the walls soft white (sometimes looks very very pale yellow).

When Muriel Solomon, a media executive, and her husband, Jordan, a biofuel business owner, moved into this turn - of - the - century midtown Toronto home in 2002, they opted for a quick cosmetic fix at first, pulling up carpet, stripping old wallpaper and painting the walls white.

Not exact matches

Next month I will be stripping off old wallpaper, painting and refinishing the floors.

Through encaustic, collage and drawing, we see items like wallpaper test strips, knot tying diagrams, and old monument maps of Paris, London, and Rome peeking through the graphical details.

«That hue was taken from a scrap of old hand - painted wallpaper we found under about seven other layers we stripped off,» says innkeeper Joanne Oliver.

«We stripped the flowery wallpaper in the living room almost straight away, and pulled up the old carpet as I was going to paint the floorboards underneath.

They began by sanding down all the walls, removing the old carpet and stripping the textured wallpaper from the ceiling.

That is one of my daughters stripping wallpaper late one night from another hallway in our old house.

I have been stripping half a century old multiple layers of wallpaper for 6 weeks during nap times (I have a 4 month old, 3 year old and 4 1/2 year old who love to «help» a little too much if I try to do it when they're awake lol) and just finished our sunroom.

Although we didn't start over on our upstairs bathroom, first we stripped wallpaper off of old painted plaster, except for what we didn't get off because it looked like it was helping hold the paint / plaster together, then we used joint compound for a very heavy texture to hold the walls together and cover the lead - based paint.

I've been stripping 30 year old wallpaper, gathering new furniture pieces and sourcing fabric for curtains, pillows and throws.

Painting the existing walls black underneath mimics the shadow line made by traditional shiplap's overlapping joints — and in this case saved the cost of stripping off the old wallpaper.