I didn't finish wallpapering the foyer on my days off...but it's 3 a.m. Wednesday morning and my right knee is starting to sound like bubble wrap when I go up and down the ladder, which is a pretty good indicator that I need to stop now. All of the trim is finally cream-colored and shiny instead of grayish-white and nicked, even the window trim that had about a dozen nail holes in it.
I'm almost done, though. If I had just one more night off--or if I'd stayed home for a bit more of the nights off I just had--I'd be done already. It's hard to tell from that photo how much I have left to do, so let me teach you a little firefighting lingo. The front of a structure (house) is called the A side, the left (as you stand in front of the house, facing it) is the B side, the rear is the C side, and the right is the D side. This photo shows the C/D corner of the foyer. I'm about a third of the way along the D side. So, all that's left is the rest of the D side (some of which is taken up by that window) and a little bit of the A side above the door. See? Almost done.
And by the way, the bird was evicted on Tuesday afternoon. I put on a baseball cap and carried a broom, but the bird was out doing whatever birds do when I took the wreath off the front door. Sorry, little bird, you'll have to find another warm place to sit for the rest of the winter.
