Posts Tagged ‘Eco wallpaper’

I’ve mentioned before my fond memories of childhood days spent redecorating rooms in our home. Mum would supervise; Dad would wet the old wallpaper/glue and re-hang the new wallpaper, and my sister and I would diligently strip the old paper using the scraper (many a fight would ensure as to whose turn it was to ‘have the scraper’).

It was a battle to get the new paper up before the glue got too dry, while not being too quick to prevent bubbles underneath that you couldn’t remove without tearing the new paper and giving Mum an excuse to lose the plot and hire a professional. This was unacceptable as my sister and I would have nothing to fight over.

So there was a tense speed to all our work, all the while trying to enjoy it while it lasted. It was like being forced to eat ice cream – you wanted to do it, longed to do it, but being made to do it made it lose its appeal.

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