Parlor Room: The Demolition Stage

We started work on the parlor room this past week. The parlor is actually the front/living room, where the front door enters into. It's a room of about 15x15.

We began to take the walls down to their original, solid wood, tongue and groove planks, which proved to be harder than it was upstairs in the girls' rooms. Here in this room, they had covered the wood walls with wallpaper, then sheetrock, then wood paneling. All attached by an assortment of glue, and millions of nails. It's proving to be quite time-consuming, though not necessarily hard work to remove it all.

We finished taking all of the old ceiling tiles down as well, and removed all the staples,
which was an easy job compared to the walls.

 

We're not quite half done with this stage yet, but we are so looking forward to seeing the finished room, with a new coat of paint, new window, and all new trim installed. Plus, we'll eventually move on to the flooring, and see if we can't refinish the original hardwood floors that are hidden beneath layers of linoleum.