We have been working since last Sunday on the exam room. In a previous life it was a bedroom for a child whom we now know as a fellow 60+ yr old ex-teacher in Lignieres.
She came to the house and explained the layout for us. Her father had died when she was but 6 yrs old outside on the street somehow. She had her bedroom in the later day examination room. It was blue wallpaper then as well...along with the two doors to nowhere on either side of the central doorway. We removed all traces of the blue nightmare. In it's place a much lighter treatment of trois wallpaper (covering earlier damage and uneven character of the horsehair plaster wall). Kelly said "We'll knock this out in a few hours Monday...as we were stripping the wallpaper last Sunday). Not exactly. The pipes for the radiator and the 10 cm for the upstairs potty and cold water pipe for the sink interviened. It took hours to do each corner of the room what with the damnable pipes and the doors to nowhere, we didn't finish the papering until this morning...Sunday morning, a week later. We finished by papering each door panel, matching the pattern side to side and top to bottom. It looks good but boy, what a bunch of work it was! Now we get to tile the remaining areas around the sink with fine Italian 5X5 (inch) beige tile. It'll be pretty and a damned sight better than the awful, depressing blue mess we started with.
Goodbye for now,
H
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