The wallpaper story

Well, first off, the good news—we’ve had an offer our house, and if all goes well, we’ll be moving in a few weeks! I’m so glad the process of cleaning-the-house-to-make-it-salable every day lasted only a week. While it was wonderful to have everything pristinely perfect all the time, it’s so unrealistic while you’re trying to live and pack to move. After weeks and months of getting the house ready to put on the market, we agreed with our realtor to have an open house. With all demand of other things this past year, my time was limited to sorting, packing, and clean-out rather than fix-ups on the house. That was my dear hubby’s department and he did a marvelous job. But some things we just had to forego—certain yardwork projects, fresh paint in every room, etc. The big project I had to let go was stripping the wallpaper in my new kitchen and giving it a new look. I just couldn’t pull it off. So we did some touches of new paint and décor to go with the wallpaper colors, and I