I have officially begun the process of updating the kitchen in this house. Last week I took down the wallpaper border that I have been meaning to take down for 6 years. My advice for people starting to take down wallpaper? DONT PUT UP WALLPAPER! But to get it off you'll need one of those scoring things that makes tiny tears in the paper, and then you'll want a steamer. You can rent a real one or if it's small you can do what I did which was to use one of those steam cleaner things. It has an attachment that worked pretty good to go over the paper as I tore it down.
Now that the paste is all cleaned off I begin the next bit which is augmenting the crown molding around the top of the cabinets. If you look at new expensive cabinet jobs they all have fine furniture looking crown molding following around the top. Ours had only a fairly simple single strip of molding. I'm adding another layer of real crown molding to it now. The orphan cabinet is now done apart from putty caulk and painting. There is a much larger grouping of cabinets on the other side to do yet, but I tackled the smaller one first so I could check to see if I still remembered how to cut crown molding which is a bit of a black art.
