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Motorcycles, tools, and garages! A little bit of everything mechanical and technical.

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

This Old House #11: Thanksgiving and Dining Rooms.

What, y'all thought I gave up? Spent a portion of Thanksgiving break sucking up leaves...

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Then the snow hit, and it got COLD.

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Then we had a poop-load of people over for Thanksgiving dinner...

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And the day after Thanksgiving, my wife decided to enlist everyone that stuck around in ripping the dining room to shreds. Something along these lines:

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That left me to the simple task of peeling the wallpaper strip off the ceiling, cause, you know, I'm the tall one. :doh

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I scraped, I rolled, I sprayed, I sanded, I tired everything under the sun and that stuff DID NOT want to come off... Finally what ended up working sorta okay was the iron- yup, I spent the first three hours trying things out, and the last 2 hours holding that iron over my head while standing on a ladder, heating the strip up and scraping it off an inch at a time. Barf.

Moving on. Starting to look pretty good! One problem- never ask an "artist" to help you "paint".

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Alas, it was in an awkward spot and had that green showing from behind so it got painted over.

Some of the help.

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