goings on...

well, the good news is, we found a treasure. the bad news is, it's taking a LONG time to 'dig it out.' for a while now, Pres and i have been wanting to paint our living room. a few weeks ago, i got the brilliant idea to re-texture the walls before we painted. see, our house is almost 100 years old. in our living room, the wall texture is different every 3 feet or so. it might be makes-you-bleed-if-you-bump-into-it pokey in one spot, and smooth as a baby's bottom right next to it. and everything in-between. for real. so a few saturdays ago, we cleaned the rest of the house really well, borrowed a pole sander and scraper from dear old Papa John, moved our couches to the middle of the room, and started sanding. and then the texture started peeling off. apparently, whom ever put it up, decided NOT to take down the 3-5 layers of wallpaper already on the walls before applying said texture. Pres and i happened to love what happened to the walls when we scraped the texture off. they have this really amazing distressed look. we have 3, possibly 4, (its up for debate) wallpapers that are quite complimentary. grays and pinks and purples and flowers and leaves and awesome designs that separately would look quite nasty, but together make something awesome. plus, the paint colors we chose look like they were made for this room, with it's distressed peeling shabby-chic (Pres prefers to call it 'Grunge' walls) awesomeness. only problem is, its taking forever to peel of the unwanted texture and have a good mix of all the wall papers. we've almost finished that part though, and are only a night or two away from the fun paint and seal-the-wall-paper part. i'll post pictures as soon as we're finished- which we are determined to be, before we head off to DISNEYLAND in 2 weeks. HOORAY!