Back at the wallpaper stripping!
I finished the wall where the hall door is - lots more cracks and so on - nothing that I didn't expect. However there was a bit of a surprise in the shape of a square "hole" in the area of the old chimney. I think it must have been a clean out or something. For some reason it wasn't closed off very well and the "hole" looks almost like a bowl on its side.
Here's a close-up:
The green wall in the photo following was easy - it's drywall with one coat of paint and the vinyl wallpaper over that. What a change from the plaster and the two additional layers of old wallpaper!
There was another surprise too. I had noticed an area on the far wall (to the right of the window) where it appeared there was another "hole" under the wallpaper but I couldn't imagine what it would be for. No chimney there, no cable outlet - no nothing! Imagine my surprise when I uncovered this:
I have an electrician friend and I'm going to see if he can remove that thing for me. Goodness knows how old it is.
I've also been replacing the hardware on the cupboards in the kitchen. I will be painting there too, but the painted over handles were really annoying me so I've replaced them. You can see the paint on the gold toned handles ...
I've also replaced some of the hinges (more to go) and here are pictures of the before and after:
That's it for now. More to come in the days ahead. :-)
