One part of our house that really bothers the both of us is the stairwell leading the bedrooms.
Maybe it’s the bleak mushroom color, bad, thick and pealing recent paint job on the stairs, layers of old wallpaper crinkled and pulling away in every corner, a piece of luan screwed and nailed to the wall over a cut out (for reasons unknown) piece of wall. I mean I really can’t tell why it was cut out. There’s no wires, no pipes, no insulation, no apparent reason.
Because there’s guests in the cottage and my tool shed is connected to it. I went to town on the wallpaper with a steamer and a metal spatula.
I’ve been super curios about the drop ceiling and what could be lurking above it.
Against my better judgement, I pried off some of the wood paneling hiding the space between the original ceiling and the drop ceiling.
Once you’ve been doing a lot of remodeling and restoring, you start to get a sense of yourself and how you work. I tend to go hard at something, get curious about something else, or start tackling another project all at the same time. This CAN mean a lot of things end up getting done, but it can also mean some things stay unfinished longer then I’d like. Because we’re living in the house and my wife doesn’t really like anything to do with remodeling, I know I should stick with the wallpaper till it’s done and try to move it along as fast as possible. Never the less…
Someone got really intense building this drop ceiling by building whole new rafters! But I LOVE seeing this pristine original wallpaper and the idea of our ceilings being a foot and half higher then they are now.
Taking down the drop ceiling is definitely going to have to wait.