Deflowering a wallpaper

Those who know me and my sis, know that we HATE wallpapers. There was a time I used to cringe entering houses that had wallpapers. It used to give me a very claustrophobic feeling, as though the room was closing in on me (u knw the old wallpapers with heavy flowers all along). as luck would have it, my inlaws bought a house fullllllll of wallpapers. they werent as horrifying but they were still pretty much EVERYWHERE. ok maybe i understated, they were horrifying!

so three weeks ago, i told my mum in law that i want to tackle them. i loveeeee doing houseprojects like these. but my mum in law has tons on her plate and she just wanted to hire someone and get it done. However the contractors were charging atrocious sums for this so last weekend, imran and i just called and said we're coming and we're ripping them out. we tackled the family room. Alhamdolillah its GONE! and it has white primer paint on top and looks soo much brighter already.

Yesterday afternoon we tackled the kitchen and....... its primed tooooooooo! Mannam and z came over in the evening after mannams prenatal class and started the upstairs hallway. Mannam's expecting a baby in 5 weeks so she tackled some of the areas she could do sitting. Zahid, Riz, dad and imran's youngest aunt tackled the rest. Later on, we finished the kitchen and joined them upstairs. so we basically removed wallpaper and painted prime for almost 11 hours with a one hour break for dinner and 2-3 15 min breaks for drinks etc. but its funn! i love them. i wish we had taken a before picture so i could show how much better it already looks.

Here are some random tit bits of convo from last night:

Zahid: Let's turn our kitchen into a pizza
Maryam: pizza parlour sounds interesting
Zahid : not a parlour, a pizza!
Mom: zahid what's wrong with you
Imran: The prenatal classes did something to him, next he'll say do the washroom like cupcakes

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Maryam: (about her instructor from the prenatal class) she was funny, she told the guys that the best thing to do is dangle a piece of jewellry in front of their wwomen, they'll pop the baby right out.
(only in maryam's case, i think even a Coach purse would do!:P)

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Maryam: What kind of a name is Kahf?
Riz: I think she forgot the "sh" (as in, its supposed to be Kashif)

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(Maryam will hate me for this one)
Imran: do prenatal classes make you weak?
Sheza: no its like a seminar, why?
Imran: Why does maryam keep telling zahid to stop coz he'll get tired or to stop if your fingers are weak?
Sheza: she's pregnant, she's excused! men are allowed to be super whipped at this time!

LOL! for special news, Imran's going to newfie and vancouver for almost two weeks. *super sniff*. I wannntt!!