Wallpaper is your friend

Given the frankly wretched state of the walls we decided that the only way forward was to wallpaper using a textured paper that could then be painted. Given that neither of us had done this before we set to work with a not insubstantial amount of trepidation but soon gained confidence...

...a little too much confidence.

It turns out that wet wallpaper is easy to tear. And yes, that was the first piece I put up, yes I did swear and yes, Sonia had already told me that that was likely to happen if I wasn't careful. She is pulling her best "I told you so" face in that picture, having stopped laughing at me. So, in revenge, this is Sonia on our lunch break.

Is that a good sandwich baby?

After this though everything went pretty smoothly and by the following afternoon, the wallpaper was done!