We probably should have left it alone. It didn't look bad, the inside of the cupboard, a little uneven, but not unsightly. The smallest room in the house - really- the bathroom is much larger; who is going to look inside the cupboard? But, we're going to do it properly, so you are going to have to strip the paint and paper off the inside of the cupboard. The steaming machine seemed to be doing its job. It did get a little close in there, as, obviously, there is little ventilation in a cupboard, but the paper came off quite readily. The surface under the paper also came off fairly readily, in a scrapey, flakey, slimey sort of ay. Not the dreaded 200 year old plaster, no that crumbles to dust and leaves a yawning hole in the wall, no, this was different. The texture was quite different from anything I had come across before. In the deep recesses of my memory there stirred a word. Distemper! water soluble, must be totally removed if you ever expect to paint on it.
Well, what I'll do is smooth it off the best I can, sand all surfaces and then paper over it all, stack the cupboard high with Christmas decorations and old shoes and no-one will ever know.
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