When I moved into this house a while back, it turned out that the previous owner was quite an enthusiastic person on putting wallpaper on the walls everywhere. Some just in a plain colour, some walls look like whole paintings. All of this felt new to me, and I was happy had the previous owner had done it, because wallpaper felt like Chinese to me. Zero skills.
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As said, wallpaper felt all unnatural to me, and I don't have any experience in it, except for maybe removing wallpaper so I would be able to paint the wall. And removing wallpaper, that can be a total drag if you dont use the right tools for it, or the previous person didn't use the right glue on it.
Remember steaming it off and getting your whole room into a high humidity for days because of the steam? And then afterwards still having to pull the little left over pieces off of the wall because they didn't come off with the rest of it...Grrr. Nope not a fan at all
After that I heard other stories from friends who were trying to put something flashy of a wallpaper in her toilet and it literally took her three days because of all of little corners and everything had to be alligned and it was a total disaster. Again, not super encouraging at all.
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Until this week I visited some friends and all of a sudden she had her kitchen redone with wallpaper and she did it by herself in a couple hours and it looked totally awesome. I was flabbergasted that she was able to do that by herself and in such short period of time.
The secret to it? There was none. This was her first wallpaper experience and she said it was just really easy. But huh???
I looked at my own wallpaper a bit critially and saw for the 10.000 time that some corners were starting to come loose. It started to get in the phase where I wasn't able to ignore it anymore you know. The phase was coming where you had to do something about it, especially now you know that other people were able to fix this really nice.
The thought of redoing the whole wall crossed my mind and at the same time was gone just as fast. Because that is a hassle where I didn't want to get started in.
So why not give it a restoring session, see how that works...and if it sucks I can still try to wallpaper it again. So I got this kind of restore kit and here we went....
Bison
First release a bit more of the part you want to glue...tension...wipe away the left over glue..And for real, it looks brand new! Hooray!
So if you thought this story would be about me learning how to wallpaper, That is not today.. But I fixed something, and I am proud of it!