The living room has been a nightmare since day one.  You can see the crazy wallpaper in the picture below.  The print is a bunch of little red people and animals dancing around at what seems to be a picnic.  The freaky wallpaper wouldn’t come off the wall.  We tried to paint over it because a professional painter said it would be no big deal.  Rolled the paint and the paper just bubbled up.  Then we rented a steamer.  It worked great.  Goodbye wallpaper.  Then we primed the walls and tried to paint them.  Guess what.  People used to paint walls with oil based paint and latex (what’s on your walls) won’t stick to it. It’s like pouring water into oil, it just doesn’t work.  The paint stuck just enough for us to have to scrape it off before it dried(awful).  This is where we are now.  Now that we have made every mistake possible we should be able to get this room done.  It’s the last room and hopefully it will be done tomorrow.

I can’t find a great picture of the mantle before we started tearing it apart but here is one mid-demolition.  It had a mirror built into it and some sort of wood that had zero character.  We are going to put a TV on it and couldn’t come up with a good reason to leave the mirror behind it.  I’ll post the progress…..