The best way I have found to remove wallpaper border from my walls is to use a hot steam iron. I get it started with warm water from a rag or sponge and then get the iron (yes the same one I use to iron our clothes), plug it in and heat it up to steam then I use a wet rag and place it on the iron and then begin to steam the wallpaper. When it gets nice and hot and wet you start to pull and for the most part it comes off in one big piece.
Okay, not my idea. It was my husband's. Great job hubby! I let him finish the job for me.
Why, you ask am I removing wallpaper border? And, sister, which room am I redoing? It is my bathroom. I was cleaning it and thinking how gross it was and then impulsively began to pull at the border which I was sick of anyway. I did that yesterday and today I painted it with left over sage green from my mom's leftover paint. I have one more coat to do and then the husband will hang a new light fixture that we had from the last time we redid the bath (five years ago).
Pictures will come when it is done!!
2 comments:
What a great tip. I think I need to be updating Samantha's room to be a little "older" soon and she has a wallpaper border.
But, we actually have a STEAMER, so hopefully that will help move the job along!
Oh yeah a steamer will do the trick in no time!!
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