Another one bites the dust!

Well, We've finished another room in our house, Finally. We started this room the day before we moved in, and after a Lo-ot of work, IT'S FINISHED! WOOOO! We finished our master bedroom last night around 10:30ish. It looks so nice. It took a lot to get it there, but we're done! When we moved in the walls were all this blue-green color, and one of the walls had a huge chunk of the wall paper removed, so we thought we would removed the rest of the wall paper and just start over on it....little did we know what we were in for. After we started removing it we realized that there was about 6 layers of wall paper, a couple layers of paint, and another layer of wall paper! Now, the house was built in 1941, and we're pretty sure this is the original wall paper that we were trying to remove. It wasn't easy, at all. We bought all sorts of chemicals, razors, and sanders to try to get all of the layers off. We had about 12 people that came to help us. and I'm so glad because we couldn't have finished it when we did without everyone's help. THANKS to those of you that came to help! After spraying chemicals that burned our skin to try to get it off, and sanding 1.5 walls, we decided to just razor it off with razor scrappers. It was a huge project that we weren't expecting. Needless to say, the rest of the rooms in our house, the wall paper is STAYING! I'm not going through that again!

Anyways, we painted our room Red and White! It was kinda a pain in the butt! I painted the Red walls first, let them dry, and then taped them off so I could paint the white on the other walls and the ceiling. Well after I painted the white walls, I started taking the tape off, and it started peeling the red off, in HUGE chunks. Not on the edge where I had just painted, but under the rest of the tape. So I had to go back and re paint all of the edges, and the trim, which totally defeated the purpose of taping them off because then I got Red on the white and white on the Red. I was about ready to just throw the cup of Red paint I was using on the White walls and call it good last night. I was so frustrated. I usually don't even take the time to tape it off, and now I know why. Ok, so that's probably not the reason, it's probaly more along the lines of me being lazy, but still. I wasn't very happy! But despite the issues I had, It looks pretty awesome if I do say so myself! We ended up scrapping the ceiling as well because it had the popcorn stuff on it, and I knew I would get paint on it, so we just took it off...but then we had to wash the ceiling before we could paint it! Such a pain....but it turned out awesome as well!  I'm excited to move everything in tonight and see what it's gonna look like with the pictures and other stuff on the walls. The white walls right now look really boring, but once we get everything put in, it's gonna look awesome! I'm going to post some pictures of the final walls without anything moved in, and then I'll post some of after everything gets moved in probably tomorrow or Thursday! I'm very excited to have this room done. Now I can work on our scrapbook, and slowly work on painting the other rooms that need to be painted...and trust me, there's A LOT of them!