Day 2

We choose to start taking wallpaper off the wall which looked in the worst condition; hence we choose the wall with the window.

I was interested to see what we'd find underneath the paper, as I'd read stories of there being lots of layers of wallpaper from generations gone by. Starting near the floor the paper came off very easily, exposing pink plaster which was in a very good condition (to be honest it looked brand new).
We stripped away, but then half way up the wall we found that removing the wallpaper started exposing more yellow woodchip wallpaper :( What I found even more harrowing is that it appeared that the previous owners had put this new looking plaster on top of a layer of woodchip wallpaper. I'm no expert decorator but to me that seems very dodgy.

At the edges of wall we had to be careful as the plaster is at its weakest there, and quite a lot of it was cracking off :s

The dark yellowcoloured patch on the wall which has been stripped is the residual wallpaper glue, and it is a swine to remove. We are hoping that the steamer will make short work of it.

The fruits of about 2 hours of labour can be seen in the picture (yes, not much progress in 2 hours!)