While Mike was away last weekend at a conference, I took along around our office and decided that I had reached my breaking point with the peeling wallpaper and decided to fix it. When Mike and I first moved into our house we said that painting the office would be one of the first things that we would do, we told ourselves that we would never be the kind of people who would just live with something that ugly in their house without fixing it.

Flash forward 18 months and somehow we just never got around to it (although to our credit in the meantime we painted the mudroom, kitchen, hallway, bathroom, kitchen and dining room, we also put in a front garden, got new appliances, changed the bathtub and toilet, put in a new light fixture, got a new roof and installed a gas stove and dishwasher).

In any case here are our before office pictures:


For the record, Jackson just inserted himself in this picture.


Most of the room had this pink wallpaper on it, but one of the walls had almost all the wallpaper gone, revealing a neon yellow plaster under neath. It still baffles me that someone would sell their house with a room in this bad of shape (and that Mike and I would be crazy enough to buy it).

As it stands right now I have stripped off all the wallpaper, primed and painted the trim and painted about 25% of the room. I plan to finish this weekend. Today I bought some fabric and plan to make curtains. After pictures to be shown when completed. Stay tuned.