A Grasscloth Wallpaper Tragedy – Addicted 2 Decorating®

Properly, this weekend didn’t go as deliberate. I do know that each venture has its ups and downs, victories and setbacks. However this explicit setback was such a disappointment that it actually took the wind out of my sails. Amazingly, I didn’t cry, however it positive did make me need to throw within the towel for just a few days, particularly with this coming on the finish of per week that had already been mentally, emotionally, and bodily difficult with Matt’s four-day hospital keep.

Anyway, final Thursday, we had some fairly heavy rain. I didn’t suppose something of it, and I didn’t discover something out of the strange after I went into the lobby early Friday morning to let Cooper out into this yard.

However about mid-morning, I used to be in my closet on the brink of go to lunch, and I rotated and noticed this…

Yep, that’s water harm on my newly put in grasscloth wallpaper. The harm covers two widths of the wallpaper.

As you possibly can think about, my coronary heart sank. The excellent news is that I’ve sufficient wallpaper to interchange these two items. The unhealthy information is that that solely leaves me with two items left for any future emergencies or accidents, and that is awfully early within the sport for me to must be changing broken wallpaper.

Initially, I wasn’t positive the place the water was coming from. There have been two prospects — the HVAC system within the attic or a leak within the roof. Actually, I hoped for the primary one, however I had the HVAC man out on Friday to test and clear the system, and that wasn’t the issue.

Nope. The perpetrator is the photo voltaic tube skylight, which isn’t even getting used proper now to supply additional lighting anyplace in our main bedroom suite, however which continues to be put in within the roof.

I couldn’t get anybody out to repair it over the weekend, and now we’re about to have extra rain as we speak. I’m feeling fairly pissed off and deflated proper now. I must rise up there this morning and no less than see if I can discover a non permanent repair till somebody can come and restore it correctly in order that it doesn’t do any extra harm.

Anyway, that set the tone for my entire weekend, and for sure, I wasn’t very productive with any of my different tasks. I do know it’s simply wallpaper, and in the entire scheme of issues, it’s a minor factor. However it’s so disappointing to work so laborious at one thing after which see a part of it ruined inside per week or so.

I’m additionally taking a look at choices for sealing grasscloth wallpaper. I do know it may be carried out, and I would take a look at out just a few choices on these two broken items earlier than I take them down and change them. I’ll maintain y’all up to date on which choice (if any) I feel works greatest. Or if you already know of any product that works nice for sealing wallpaper (particularly grasscloth), please let me know! I’m open to all concepts proper now.

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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.