Current project is fixing up the library. This room gets a lot of use and has long been the shabbiest room in the house. It was poorly lit, and we suspect the wallpaper was either original to the house (1914) or at least close to that. The wallpaper was full of holes from pictures that were hung over the years and starting to peel at some of the seams.
It also appeared as if the ceiling had been wallpapered and painted over, like all of the other original plaster walls in the house.
We've been stripping wallpaper for about a month now. The walls weren't too bad. The paper came right off, and the underlying glue sponged off pretty well. The ceiling is proving to be a bitch. Unfortunately it seems that the plaster was originally built expressly to be wall papered -- the surface is very rough. So we are now having to have a skim coat done on the whole room, including the ceiling.
