bathroom remodel (wallpaper nightmare)

We bought this house last summer (2008). The price was right, it is in a neighborhood that we have always wanted to live in. We are about 2 blocks from the high school and middle school and about 5 blocks (3 blocks through the neighborhood shortcuts) from the elementary school. My kids have all gone to school here, even before we moved (I just drove them, as even though we were living in the district, I wanted them to go to this elementary school and not the one that was a block away from our previous residence.)
Who ever lived here before must have had a wallpaper fetish. Wallpaper everywhere, in every room. Some of it not so bad, others REALLY bad!
The living room and dining room came with a border of roosters and red barns. EWWWW! So not us! The kitchen was bordered with a different scenario of - get this....chickens and barns...LOL!
One bedroom, (the boys', cause it was the larger of the bedrooms outside of the master) had a border of flowers. Our master bathroom and vanity are covered
with a not too bad flowery border, with the entire vanity in the same design, as well as a border of the same throughout the master bedroom.
The other full bath (the one the boys use) is covered in girly-girl flowers.
First things first! Chickens and barns? In the living room? WTH?!
Took that border down EVERYWHERE and fortunately found that the previous owner left us paint to cover up that matched.
Next, took out the border in the boys' bedroom and found paint to cover that up. Looks good, and although I've never done this type of stuff before, I decide that it isn't such bad work. (Yeah really. Read on...)
Decided to tackle the boys' bathroom over Christmas break, so Colton will be here to help out. I knew there was 2 layers of wallpaper in there (they were starting to peel in little places)and I was really dreading doing this project.
What I did not know was that there was also a layer of PAINT in between the two layers of wallpaper.
Now, I'm all for TRYING to cut corners to save time and expense, but you would think that after PAINTING on top of the existing wallpaper in a small spot and actually SEEING that that was not gonna work, they would have stopped. But nooooooo! They painted over the wallpaper in the entire bathroom before they realized this! Deciding that one coat of paint was enough work to try to cover up the existing wallpaper, they elected to just cover up the entire mess with yet another wallpaper. (banging my head against that wallpaper now)
The first layer of paper we get off fairly easily.
It was then we discovered the layer of paint. It doesn't matter how well you "score" that layer, nor how much of that DIF wallpaper remover goop you use, it is not gonna penetrate a layer of paint, not to even mention the wallpaper underneath. (still banging my head against that wall)
We finally resorted to taking a razor blade and scoring 1 foot sections through all layers (without damaging the sheetrock/drywall) and then using the razor edge to carefully lift each layer off each 1 foot section.
After four days of this, we have all layers removed with the exception of a 5-6 foot section's last layer.
OMG! What were the previous owner's thinking?!
We will finish that up later today, hopefully, and then we will have to "patch" the various nicks and notches created to get all this stuff off the walls.
I have already ordered and received new bathroom accessories (shower curtain (although the tub/shower has sliding doors), soap dispenser, toothbrush holders, kleenex box cover, etc.) I have also ordered new towels, actually bath sheets, for the boys and a bathrug, courtesy of my Amazon sweepstakes win a couple months ago.
Will be re-painting the walls (no more wallpaper!!!), perhaps a nice sand color.
I'm not sure if I have a "before" pic (Colton might, though, as he is always taking pictures of himself in the mirror for his myspace page..LOL) but I'll post "after" pics when it all gets finished.