We finished removing the wallpaper on the lower portion on our kitchen wall last night. We worked a little on Sunday and then finished last evening. We have become quite effecient in removing it the more we go. The process we use is as we listed before. Score the wall, spray with DIF, remove outer layer of paper, wet second layer with water, and then remove it.
We now have to go back and sandpaper the wall, patch any holes, and then paint it.
Saturday night we had the previlage of watching Tristan, our Nephew, for the night. He is almost a year old (11 months) and it sure has gone by fast. He is just starting to walk; he is a little wobbly but can take several steps. It won't be long before he is running and getting into even more trouble. We are lucky to live in the same town as my sister and so we get to babysit him fairly often. When Amy worked the night shift at the hospitial we got to watch him a lot more. But we are happy to help when we can now.
We have a few pictures of his visit in the gallery.
Last Sunday we started removing the wallpaper in our kitchen. Neither of us have attempted this before so it's a learning process. We first scored the wall with a special tool (we are using the 'Paper Tiger') being careful not to break the drywall, then we spray it with a product call DIF gel. It sits on the wall for about 20 minutes and it is suppose to make the wall paper come off fairly easily. We don't have anything to compair it to so I guess it works okay. We had problems at first, but after a few sections we were able to get the paper to come off in full sheets instead of small sections. An alternative method is to use a steamer. We haven't decided if we want to go that route or not.
The DIF wallpaper remover seems to make the top layer of wallpaper come off, but leaves the backing. The backing is fairly easy to remove by making it damp with a sponge and then slowing using a straight edge to peel it off. This is where we stopped last weekend. We still have more wallpaper to remove and then we have to sand, clean, and patch the walls. At that point we will get to paint it.
The site is almost back to full function. There is still some work in the gallery, getting all the pictures back up. There was trouble converting from the old gallery to the new one, so we will probably just up all new pictures. Some will be the same of course as the old pictures, but I don't remember all the old pictures.
As you will notice our site looks a little different. Okay a lot different. We've changed hosting providers and decided to do a little house keeping in the process. Over the next few weeks keep coming back for updates.
The old site is still active. (execpt for the gallery which is down).
Edit: Removed link to old site as the new site has all the old content included.
We have started a New Year together and there have been a few changes since our last update. We have a new nephew, Tristan Gauge Hulsey. Ryan's sister Amy had him on Decemeber 30, 2004 at 11:40 AM. You can find pictures in our Gallery section. We also got a dog - Buddy, he is a Beagle mix, about a year old, and quite adorable. Pictures of Buddy can also be found in our Gallery,
We've updated the look of the Gallery which makes it easier for us to update pictures, so hopefully it will be updated a little more frequently.
Well after almost a month, we're able do a quick update. We signed on our home on the 18th of August as planned and we started the moving process the following weekend. We have setting in nicely and are have an open house this weekend, Sept 11 at 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. It's short notice, but if you see this in time your welcome to stop by. Give us a call and we can give you directions. Of course you can stop by anytime as well. Well thats all for now.
