The walls, that is.
Masked mystery guest stripper
The biggest piece of the night
Our little twin neighbors play shirt-no-pants stickball with their mom
1st family dinner
Special guest stripper #2
It’s all about the spray bottle
Pullin’ off the “wood” paneling
Dining room walls are naked – so much brighter already! (this wall’s gonna come down eventually)
Pile o’ paneling
While we still have a LONG ways to go in making the house truly reflective of us, we started the process of ridding the place of Manny’s legacy.
Prying off the wood paneling to reveal the original wallpaper below
Hole in the wall where the china cabinet used to be
A controlled experiment to compare various methods of wallpaper removal
One night’s worth of scraping
Enough faffing about on the Internet – time to get to work!
This is what it looked like back in April, 2009, during our second visit.
the house at 19R
The front door has a bathroom lock that can be picked with your fingernail.
3 out of 6 locks we’re fixing are installed upside down.
Proud (almost) home-o-nerds ritually take possession of the house. Exorcism to follow.