Slowly but Surely: Parlor Progress

In this post, I'm going to give you a run-down of the parlor project. Perhaps you'll get a better understanding of WHY it's such a slow-moving project.  

Some of these pictures you've no doubt seen before, so bear with me.

In the beginning, the walls looked pretty simple and unassuming,

being covered in hideous wood paneling:

Beneath the wood paneling was sheetrock, and beneath that a couple layers of wallpaper (one of which had been nailed on), and finally, our wonderful tongue and groove oak that had been painted a scary grey color.

The ceilings weren't quite as time consuming, as the "tiles" come off pretty easily. After that it's just a matter of moving your ladder over every few minutes as you remove all the staples that held the tiles on. We have 9-foot ceilings in this room, so the ladder was a necessity.

Pulling out staples:

Lots of wall scraping:

Here's a detailed picture of the nails that the wallpaper was nailed on with. There are literally thousands of these things covering the entire walls:

 After filling the nail holes, our walls now look like Dalmations:

Oh, by the way, we're not even done with all the spackling yet. I promise you the next time I even MENTION the parlor, it will be because we've painted it. Promise!