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Perhaps someone can help me figure out a simple solution to this. . . in our new place, we are using a former dining room as a playroom for our children. Aside from the obvious childproofing stuff that we are doing, we have to make some modifications to make sure our boys don't destroy the room. We are, for instance, removing curtains, replacing a hanging light fixture with something less fragile. Our landlord appears to be very attached to the wallpaper in the house. It's circa 1982 Laura Ashley type florals (ugly). The dining room is predominantly burgundy with a peach fruit-themed chair rail and floral wainscoting. (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wu5pvb&s=5#.UjtLskCTi1g). The paper was peeling off the walls when we were last there and our landlord was given the option to either take it down and paint or glue it back. She's elected to glue it back. So, now I have to worry about protecting her gawd-awful wallpaper from destruction at the hands of the K Bros.
I was thinking that I could cover it up somehow with wallpaper, banners, posters? I don't think removable/renter's wallpaper will work over wallpaper since it needs to be dampened. Should I just put up tag board and educational posters with painter's tape? Whatever I put up, I have to take down and I'm reluctant to use staples or tacks since it is a playroom.
I was thinking that I could cover it up somehow with wallpaper, banners, posters? I don't think removable/renter's wallpaper will work over wallpaper since it needs to be dampened. Should I just put up tag board and educational posters with painter's tape? Whatever I put up, I have to take down and I'm reluctant to use staples or tacks since it is a playroom.
I know. I sound like a crazy person. Bear in mind that K2 managed to split his eyebrow open on the tiniest corner molding on the bottom of the vertical banister of our stair case. The one square half-inch of our house that is impossible to childproof. For their playroom, we already installed extra tall gates in the doorway, screwed the heating vent to the floor, removed curtains, installed cleats for the window blind cords (we'll probably replace the blinds all together), replaced all outlets, and screwed plexiglass over the lower panels of the windows after the boys began throwing matchbox cars against the glass. . . DrK and I actually argued about whether it was more of an over-reaction to cover the windows with plexiglass (my solution) or to just prohibit them from having toys in the playroom all together (DrK's solution). I figure that they will be spending unsupervised time in the playroom so I really have to go all out with the childproofing.
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