How to dismantle your home part 1

So the remodel has begun. That is to say, I have removed much wallpaper and not accomplished much else in the past 4 days.

This happy domestic scene just shows you how crazy we are. We are all excited about our little pink house that needs so much help. Amazing how you can love something and also want to change everything about it!

This picture represents how our life would progress living in our new house if it were to be stylistically preserved. We would have to name all of our children "Chase" regardless of gender and take to wearing dangerously high cut running shorts. It would not have been good for anyone. Taj even looks a bit frightened.

That is why we had to start tearing things apart. In this photo my Husband and his Step-dad discover the "weird black cancer causing glue-tar" that was holding our lovely wood paneling up on the wall behind the fireplace! Notice that I am standing safely behind the camera, away from the bio-toxins.
Other fun discoveries include this weird black stain.
And multiple layers (5 in some places!) of really old wallpaper!

Some of it, like this green leafy scene, would actually not have been bad if it did not cover every wall in a small room.It all had to come down.
Kind of a daunting prospect.
but in the end we have a wall full of glue and the discovery of some very nice hardwoods!
Taj, however remains unimpressed. We think he was enjoying the 70's life and may be a bit sad that the carpet full of 30 years of smells is going to be thrown out like trash. The life of a dog is a hard life indeed.

Stay tuned for the second instalment of our home improvement adventures where we learn how to skim coat and answer the question on every one's mind "will the weird water-soluble goop on our ceiling fall off when we apply our low VOC water-based Paint?"