Goodbye Orange

We've been in our house not quite two years (I reckon it has been about 20 months).  We first laid eyes on the lounge when we attended our very first open home.  This is what the lounge looked like at that open home (photo from the real estate agent's website).  It's pretty orange! And if you look closely (through the archway) you can see through to the purple kitchen. Clearly the colours were not a deterrent to buying the house - pah, just needs a bit of paint.

Well, it's been nearly two years and we have still been living with the orange. To be fair, we'd had plenty to distract us - there was the year of vomiting pregnancy, followed closely by the year of wee Willa. As we drew closer to New Years Eve, I decided that the orange was not going to survive to see in another year.

The first layer of paper came off really easily (good bye orange!) and we thought we were awesome.  The room was looking a much paler shade of white, which I thought I could tolerate until we got around to painting it.  But then we worked out that the layer of white was a red herring, and that it just covered up four more layers that had to come off before we hit plaster board. 

Look at the beautiful white, sitting just under the orange

And then a bunch more layers under that....

After nearly three days of work, we have only done half the room, our shoulders are sore and we're having a break. I suspect its gonna be a number of weeks before we take up the scrapers again.  But look! It's no longer orange (I'm taking that as success).

The final layer (the green stuff) is frackin awful to get off!