I've been going back and forth for the last week or so on whether or not to pull down the wallpaper in my guest bathroom and paint. After the last showing where the perspective buyer was talked out of making an offer, I decided I needed to. But a little time and I wavered to not doing it.

If I pull the wallpaper down to paint, it's a "big" job (I put big in quote because the bathroom isn't large and it's only 2.5 walls that have wallpaper), and it's a job I'd have to do fast, like in one day, so as not to potentially have a mess or worse looking bathroom when a showing would like to happen! If I leave it up, I have to at least fix the curling and slightly torn edges. Which I can do, I think without much problem.

I hesitate to pull it down mostly because I like it, I think it's elegant pretty! Which is odd in it's own right, 'cause I don't like wallpaper as a rule.

But after talking with my Mom on Sunday I think more than the wallpaper may be dating the bathroom as much as the drawers, making it seem older. (Yes, it's the original bathroom from 1979, I believe. But it doesn't have to LOOK like it!)

But then we're back to how pretty it is, and that it'd be a lot of effort to take it down, prime, and paint. :p I only like doing one of those three.

BUT, I think I've come across some advice that might just make up my mind once and for all. From real estaging's blog article titled When Wallpaper Attacks, It Can Kill the Sale:

So you need to know that any and all the resistance you have about removing wallpaper will be the EXACT same resistance a buyer will have about it too.

Right, okay. I'm trying to move, which means I'd be away from it anyway, right? So, take pictures to remember it, then take it down. *nod* Okay.

Now I just need to find the time to do it.... And I should replace that later added wall cabinet that looks slightly out of place above the toilet. Ooo, maybe with a nice white wood behind the toilet shelving unit!

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