This is the first stage of "during" - once the wall paper came down as far as I was able and/or willing to do. It remained this way for a shameful 2 or so years...

Then phase 2 of "during" lasted much less time - a couple of weeks? A guy in our ward is a contractor, and he came in and gave us relief from turquoise paradi... I mean prison! And a guy Frank knows came in and plastered and sanded and painted (rinse and repeat...) the walls. We had dust EVERYWHERE!!! I could taste the plaster that whole day. YUCK!

And here's the final product with paper-free walls, turquoise-free, um, everything... as it should be. Shame that we fix it up so nice for someone else to enjoy it... Actually, if it had been for us, we'd have sprung for new linoleum, and the wall color would've been a light sage. But this is cheap and generic. Good enough and neutral is the name of the game here.