Countin Flowers on the Wall & Penny happy with her new sweater

Ever heard the song Flowers on the Wall; Counting Flowers on the Wall, that don't bother me at all? Well I unfortunately didn't write the song but I can tell you these Flowers do bug me/bother me & yeah they so gotta go even if we're not exactly ready to reno the main bath yet. 

And since the wallpaper in the kitchen came off super easy, I thought I'd rid me of those flowers in the bathroom too. Well turns out these particular flowers weren't so easy to get rid of. They were kind of plastified & designed especially for bathrooms & moist/damp spaces. Took a garment steamer & my concoction of fabric softener & hot water to get rid of em and mind you a little elbow grease too! Still some of them darn flowers left; only so much a girl can do in a day! 

And now thanks to a stencil painting beneath the border I'm now countin bows as well as flowers! Maybe I should write a song about that!

 

A Visitor & Removing Wallpaper

Finally got to getting our bird feeder on the go. I'm sure this blue jay appreciated it in the dead of winter. 

Today was the day that we really started ripping the kitchen apart. We've been doing our research, figuring out what we want and visiting home renovation stores. Decided to take down the wallpaper in the kitchen and thought it would take several days. And thanks to my daughter in law, it didn't. She suggested a mix of hot water and liquid fabric softener to be sprayed/sponged on and it worked amazingly well. Wallpaper gone in less than an hour!

Kitchen minus Upper Cupboards; really opens up the space! 

Dining area; wallpaper gone. So much brighter!