We finished taking the wallpaper off of the living room walls today, a week-and-a-half after we started. It was creative, challenging, interesting, painstaking, tiring. Fabric softener and tons of hot water spray worked, and the walls are in very good shape. Ben will take it from her, at least as far as spackling. Maria and I will paint. This will be a beautiful room, and we are very happy about the work that we did. Next, polishing the wood stove, putting another coat on the pantry. Tonight, we are having some  friends over for home-made pizza (I’m cooking). We have no chairs or furniture, but it will be our first party or dinner at the New Bedlam Farm.

Almost as a reward for getting the wallpaper off, we came down to some beautiful old patterns and I was able to capture a few. I’ll put up a wallpaper album later on Facebook.