Wallpapering page 2

Lavern & Shirley wallpaper the Homestead - Page 2

It was at this point that Jackie figured she could find a job by Monday so she wouldn't have to come back. Not having put piece one of wallpaper up as yet, we decided that Jackie would start to wallpaper while I looked for another answer to the hole that was now 10 x 15 inches. We had also decided that the rest of the wallpaper seemed firmly enough attached to the wall to leave up and paper over. I poked around in the cellar and found a smallish piece of 1/4 inch plywood and cut a piece of that. I won't even mention the several different saws I used as I wasn't sure which to use and none seemed to do the job really well (or maybe, just maybe, it was me). When I came up the stairs, Jackie was trying to get around the motion sensor box with the wallpaper and making "tttcchh" noises. "The color's bleeding through. I'm sure of it." She decided to let that piece dry thoroughly to see how it looked, and she ate another bowl of Kix while I hammered the board into place

and taped and spackled it.

Being the sort who know when to quit while we are somewhat ahead, we started cleaning up and it was at this point that Dad came home from the Tea Garden.

Even dry the paper looks like some of the color in the old wallpaper is discoloring the new paper, and the spackle also seemed to be pulling color through it.

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