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Another idea would be to find a way to frame them individually and hang them
all over the bathroom (or other room). This idea would allow you to rotate the
quotes and add more that you like as you go along. You could even decorate
the frames if you are feeling artistic. This sounds like fun, I will have to do
a few, LOL

Plus it would not cause you problems down the road with a new look.

Laura (Married to a painter/paper hanger)


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Kelly Lenhart

>Another idea would be to find a way to frame them individually and hang
them
>all over the bathroom (or other room).

My grandparents have their guest bathroom with little mirrors, all in pretty
frames, just like this.

It's a great idea, and I, too am now thinking of doing something like this.

In my first apartment that was mine, all mine and no one else's, I had a
wall just like this--I taped brown craft paper to the wall and went to town.
All those bumper stickers I didn't have a bumper for. All those fun things
my friends said. All those wonderful things I read somewhere.

It's a marvelous idea, there are plenty of ways to hang it that won't damage
walls, and I'm gonna do it again!!!

Kelly

Barb Eaton

Good idea Laura but I have so many quotes. It'd cost me a fortune in
frames and how would I narrow it down. You know I have trouble choosing
things from a large selection. LOL!
Whatcha mean problems down the road? I figured I'd just use that KILT
(sp) primer stuff to cover it.

Barb E
"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad
of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab
them during the night before they get away."

- Earl Nightingale, Speaker and Businessman




>
> Another idea would be to find a way to frame them individually and hang them
> all over the bathroom (or other room). This idea would allow you to rotate the
> quotes and add more that you like as you go along. You could even decorate
> the frames if you are feeling artistic. This sounds like fun, I will have to
> do
> a few, LOL
>
> Plus it would not cause you problems down the road with a new look.
>
> Laura (Married to a painter/paper hanger)

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In a message dated 1/12/2004 3:50:17 PM Central Standard Time,
homemama@... writes:


> Good idea Laura but I have so many quotes. It'd cost me a fortune in
> frames and how would I narrow it down. You know I have trouble choosing
> things from a large selection. LOL!
> Whatcha mean problems down the road? I figured I'd just use that KILT
> (sp) primer stuff to cover it.
>

Well, you could use the same frames and just change the quotes in them. Or
you could use a plain light colored wallpaper and just write on it.

By problems down the road I was thinking about trying to remove different
kinds of paper. Make sure whatever you do that you first prepare the walls with a
primer. You mean you would just paint over it all later? I think maybe that
stuff is called Kilz or something like that. Walls look better if you remove
the old paper. However these are just the thoughts of someone who is married to
the business, LOL
Laura


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Barb Eaton

Laura,
I hadn't thought of all the different papers, thanks. I have to take the
wallpaper in the bath down anyway, it's really dark. Putting up a light
color and writing on it, now that would work. The computer room is already
an off white color paint.

Robyn thanks for the tips to keep them straight. The painted walls
aren't textured and I'll be extra carefull picking wallpaper for the bath.
I've never wallpapered before so this will be a whole new experience. I've
heard fabric softener removes the old paper and glue well. Anyone tryed
that? :-)


Barb E
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Author and Buddhist Monk




>
> Well, you could use the same frames and just change the quotes in them. Or
> you could use a plain light colored wallpaper and just write on it.
>
> By problems down the road I was thinking about trying to remove different
> kinds of paper. Make sure whatever you do that you first prepare the walls
> with a
> primer. You mean you would just paint over it all later? I think maybe that
> stuff is called Kilz or something like that. Walls look better if you remove
> the old paper. However these are just the thoughts of someone who is married
> to
> the business, LOL
> Laura

Marjorie Kirk

Barb,

If it's fairly recent wallpaper it's probably "strippable", which means you
can peal the top of the paper off just by grabbing an edge and pulling. The
the rest of the paper and the glue would still be on the wall. Spray it
with plain water, wait about five minutes, then peal it off too. Wash the
walls and you're ready to go. If it's really old wallpaper, call in a
professional. (You don't really have too, but non-strippable wallpaper is a
b*tch to get off.)

Marjorie

-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Eaton [mailto:homemama@...]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] quotes, papering walls with them

Laura,
I hadn't thought of all the different papers, thanks. I have to take the
wallpaper in the bath down anyway, it's really dark. Putting up a light
color and writing on it, now that would work. The computer room is already
an off white color paint.

Robyn thanks for the tips to keep them straight. The painted walls
aren't textured and I'll be extra carefull picking wallpaper for the bath.
I've never wallpapered before so this will be a whole new experience. I've
heard fabric softener removes the old paper and glue well. Anyone tryed
that? :-)


Barb E
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh, Author and Buddhist Monk




>
> Well, you could use the same frames and just change the quotes in
> them. Or you could use a plain light colored wallpaper and just write on
it.
>
> By problems down the road I was thinking about trying to remove
> different kinds of paper. Make sure whatever you do that you first
> prepare the walls with a primer. You mean you would just paint over it
> all later? I think maybe that stuff is called Kilz or something like
> that. Walls look better if you remove the old paper. However these
> are just the thoughts of someone who is married to the business, LOL
> Laura


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on 1/12/04 10:54 PM, Marjorie Kirk at mkirk@... wrote:

> If it's really old wallpaper, call in a
> professional. (You don't really have too, but non-strippable wallpaper is a
> b*tch to get off.)

I agree about the bitch part! Our previous house was only 4 years old and in
some places had 3 layers of wallpaper. (The guy was one of the contractors
in the development. I *hope* he was the wallpaper guy because, though he was
excessive in his need to repaper and his need to buy cheap, ugly paper, he
did a good job. But the repairs he did around the house really stunk!)

But you can rent a steamer made specifically for that purpose. It looks like
a vaccuum with a pad at the end that you hold over an area and get it
soaked. Then you scrape the wall with wide bladed putty knife.

You can also do it by hand, wetting a part of the wall with a sponge and
letting it soak in and then scraping. I honestly don't know that the steamer
helped that much but it might depend on the paper.

I also had to soak and scrape some of the walls repeatedly after all the
paper was off because the glue was really heavy.

Joyce