Weekend Renovations

Like I said in an earlier post,

this house definitely needs a lot of love.

Here are some pictures to prove it!

Before:

As you can tell, this lady was a wallpaper fiend!

Not so much our style, 

So, this weekend my very loving friends, family, and I attacked with no mercy!

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The "setup" in the dining room:

And the ATTACK {aka CHAOS!}:

Removal of the sink in the downstairs 1/2 bath led to surprise discovery #1:
Previous owner tiled over tile.

Saturday's priority.
The living room was sans wallpaper {thank heavens!} but needed LOTS of cleaning.
This lady was a smoker and, let me tell you, I have never had a desire to smoke but after seeing the
tar residue drip off the ceiling and walls I will NEVER even touch a cigarette. 

This wallpapered foyer was my main target today.  

Wallpaper removal tools.

While my wallpaper progress was slow and steady,
Mama killed it by priming all the walls in the living room.

Upstairs bathroom had some mold in the drywall.
We left this task up to the professionals.

At the end of today, I was able to remove all the blue wallpaper from the foyer
but was way too tired to take any photographs.