FISHERMAN'S SCHOOLROOM
by Robin

We moved into this house a little over a year ago and this was the one room we never got around to painting. Originally, it had patriotic puppy dogs border and 1 patriotic striped wall. Cute, but not what we were wanting in the long run. This room get next to no morning light which makes it hard to want to school in. (ignore my bad sentence structure) We had to brighten it up and add lighting.

In the collage below, you can see the first day of removing stripes. That paper came off ok, but it was the under-side paper w/ glue that was IMPOSSIBLE to remove. The ladies at the Homeschool Library were instrumental in suggesting vinegar & water soaked onto the wall.

On the 2nd day, all that paper was removed. Thanks ladies!!

Unfortunately, the boys and I did a lot of damage to the wall while removing the paper so vigorously with the scraper and Jack had to spackle many spots. I think he said something about "ruined" but we worked through some of that between spackling, sanding and 2 coats of primer.

Finally, the green got to go up in late afternoon. The bottom 2 pictures depict the actual color. Granny Smith Apple green. The bottom right picture shows you some inspirational pictures and fabric that led us to the wall color. My curtains are going to be striped cabana-type with green, pink, red & yellow (seen in picture).

Our goal is to put many, many white shelves against the green to hold all our school books and hopefully have space to hang some fantastic kid artwork. I think, though, that we're going to finish the trim up today and put everything back into the room because company comes in 4 days. I don't have a lot of time left for major construction projects.