This is about the upstairs guest room. When we bought Casa del pv, it looked like this:
Yeah. My *personal* favorite feature was the wallpaper border. Why? Because A) it had FISH on it, and B) it was VINYL. As in, the wallpaper border you put in your bathroom because it's water resistant. Ever try to remove one of those borders? It ain't pretty. The vinyl top layer peels off pretty easily. The bottom, sticky part does. not. budge. I was pretty sure I could even hear it singing "We shall Overcome" with its little fibers all linked. We ended up having to go to our trusty neighborhood Sherwin-Williams and get a wallpaper remover product (and then got asked by the nice fella behind the counter "How'd that Dif work for ya?" every time we came in over the next 8 months...). The Dif worked a miracle, in case you were wondering. Spray it on, wait some time, scrape it off. It did leave a slight neon blue stain on the walls where it had been accidentally sprayed, which we just primed over once it was wiped and dry. Wallpaper gone, it was time to paint.
We were looking to the future with this room. We knew that we were going to plan to have kids probably at SOME point while in this house (settle down, sister...). So, this room needed to look good as a guest room now, and make a successful transition to a nursery later. Naturally, we went with deep chocolate brown. That's a kid's color, right? :) We figured that we'd be able to add gender-specific details later that would look fantastic - a bold pink for a girl, a sharp turquoise for a boy.
But for now, it needed to function as a place where guests would feel comfortable. So, it went from above (yikes) to below:
There are still things to do (art on the walls, for example...), but I think it's quite the improvement. But then, I'm biased. :)
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