If like us you plan to change every single decor detail within your home then it’s sensible to do this in stages. We decided to strip the wall paper prior to ripping out our carpets. This was done for 2 main reasons.
1: if you are planning on restoring the floorboards then this protects them for longer. We found that when we steamed the wallpaper it turned into a gloopy, sticky mass-once that had contact with wood and dried it became tricky to remove.
2: you can simply roll the carpets up at the end so any small bits of wallpaper that you had lying around will definitely be collected and removed from the house-simply saves another ‘bitty’ job along the way.
As you can see from the picture we were unfortunate enough to have wallpaper on our ceiling too. Having removed paper from every room we uncovered one wall from wallpaper to reveal the date 1946 which I can only assume was the last time the house was decorated. 65 years since the house last had a revamp…We certainly had our work cut out!
all homely things 