A Grasscloth Wallpaper Tragedy – Addicted 2 Decorating®

Properly, this weekend didn’t go as deliberate. I do know that each mission has its ups and downs, victories and setbacks. However this specific setback was such a disappointment that it actually took the wind out of my sails. Amazingly, I didn’t cry, but it surely positive did make me wish to throw within the towel for a number of 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 assume something of it, and I didn’t discover something out of the peculiar once 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 point 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’ll be able to think about, my coronary heart sank. The excellent news is that I’ve sufficient wallpaper to switch these two items. The dangerous 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 need to 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. Truthfully, 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 offender is the photo voltaic tube skylight, which isn’t even getting used proper now to offer additional lighting wherever in our master suite 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 right now. I’m feeling fairly annoyed and deflated proper now. I must stand up there this morning and at the least see if I can discover a momentary 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 complete weekend, and for sure, I wasn’t very productive with any of my different initiatives. 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 onerous 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 finished, and I would check out a number of choices on these two broken items earlier than I take them down and exchange them. I’ll maintain y’all up to date on which choice (if any) I feel works greatest. Or if you realize 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 transform 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.