Home Repairs

I tried to capture our front room at it's worse to make the final pictures look better. Sadly I didn't think of taking the "before" picture until after Alice and I had taken the old wallpaper off the wall. It was surprisingly easy to peel the wallpaper off, in fact, Alice helped me tear it off in long sheets. She thought it was great fun (and so did I). It is a little suspicious that little pockets of wallpaper all over our house have mysteriously started "falling off the wall" since we started.

Ryan, very hesitantly, let me talk him into putting new wallpaper up. This was against his better judgment and extended family pressure (Craig and Emily). Maybe I've lived in too many rentals, but I've never lived in a house with a good paint job. Nor has said paint ever hid even a hint of fingerprints. 

Here is the final product complete with a Mt. Fuji valence. Oh, and you can see the new windows too. It's so nice to be able to open windows now. Only 5 out of 36 windows in our home opened before due to paint jobs gone bad (mmm, hmm) and broken pulley ropes. Although it's cold now, I'm excited for spring and throwing all the windows open wide.

The Johnson's came for a visit at Thanksgiving, and Craig was all about discovering nooks, crannies, and hidden spaces. We pretty much let him have free reign as documented by the picture below. Can you find him? He also helped Ryan and Spencer put a ventilation fan in our bathroom amidst his wanderings. It was no small task considering the size of the attic access and we are grateful for the help.