Current Home Improvement Projects

There are two home improvement projects I am trying to complete within the next month. 

1.  Remove wallpaper and paint guest bedroom. 

I removed the wallpaper in the spare room this past August.  It was much easier than I was expecting.  Smooth sailing.  So when I started this one last night I was expected it to be much the same.  Boy was I wrong.  It did not go well.  See exibits A-C below.  It took about 5 hours, maybe more, to accomplish what you see in the pictures.  The stupid paper WOULD NOT COME OFF.  It was like it had become part of the wall.  The very top layer of the paper peeled right off.  The rest came off in shredded little pieces.  This is going to take forever.  It might be New Year's Day 2010 before I am done.


Exibit A


Exibit B


Exibit C

2.  Replace the blinds in the bedrooms. 

I'd like to replace all the old, semi-broken, dirty mini blinds in the bedrooms with room darkening shades.  I was originally going to go with the cellular blinds with no string but they were much to expensive for my non-standard size windows.

What was the most recent home improvement project you've done?  What do you plan to do next?