I finally did it! The peach crap is gone, the vile 70s stuff is gone, and the gaudy blue and green vintage 1948 paper is gone. All of it.

I started scraping this morning, and cleaned up the “tape and drywall compound over old paper” corner. While the corner dried, I kept scraping, and then, I taped off the corner and did a first coat over the tape.

Last vestiges of nasty paper.

All done, and washed once with dish detergent and hot water. Still needs one more wash.

There’s a reason I’m not a professional drywall taper. The original walls in this house are nicely done. The west wall is not original, which is why the corner was such a mess; they cut the drywall too short. Since they just papered over old paper, they did the corner “repair” (sarcasm intended) atop the old paper, too. Mine is a long way from professional, but it’s better than it was…at least I removed the goddamned wallpaper.

I know this wall is original 1948 because the handwriting in “Wallpaper” is the same as the north wall.

They used the wall as a scratch pad for calculations. I apparently used it as a scratch pad for a Paper Tiger. Not deep, though; it’s okay.

This is possibly the neatest outlet I’ve ever seen! I’m almost sorry to have to cover it.

LATER: A second go at the corner, and another skim coat that will be my last if possible, and my second last if not possible.

EVEN LATER: I did one more skim coat. Tomorrow, I’ll either run over it with 220 sandpaper, or a barely damp sponge to smooth it. Don’t care…I want to prime these goddamned walls!