Wallpaper Is Back - Page 3

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

I like wall paper and I always have. When we built our home, My DH who can wallpaper like a pro, wallpapered two bathrooms and one bedroom for me.

That was over 30 years ago now, so the wallpaper has been gone for a while and I miss it.

When we bought our first home, every wall and ceiling had wallpaper and it was repapered many times. Some rooms had five layers of wallpaper on the walls. I removed it all myself, except my DH did the ceilings. It really wasn't all that bad to remove. The walls were plaster, not dry wall and they were never painted. There were measurements and notes written on the plaster that had been there for decades.

What was surprising, was that every joint on every onside corner and all along the ceiling where the walls met it was not closed. The house was built so that the wall paper in the corners and along the ceiling could just be pushed in to the open seams.

My DH had to fix every seam with paper and spackle. The house had five bedrooms and was huge, so that took a while. We repapered three bedrooms, a bathroom and the dining room. We sold the house with the wallpaper.

I would really like to wallpaper my bathrooms again. It really makes a big difference and is easier to keep clean, but it is expensive...very expensive, at least for the paper that I like. It would cost me a couple of hundreds of dollars to do one bathroom...even with no labor costs.

I have been thinking about it, but it is not a priority.

software · ‎06-08-2016

You are so right about that!

My 70s house was papered head to toe when I purchased it 16 years ago.

It was a nightmare to remove because the drywall was never primed or painted!

So the wallpaper was put up on top of the drywall paper.

I could only remove a small section at a time, otherwise I would damage the drywall

@Sooner wrote:
Wall paper has never been out of style. It has been out of trend. . .

And if it is properly installed with the right backing on a well prepped wall, it can be taken off. So many builders and handy men don't know how to hang it, and some just slap it on dry wall.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@Carmie I also love wallpaper in the bathrooms. Our guest bathroom has a light neutral grasscloth wallpaper in it. It still looks great and we've probably had it about 20 yrs. Like you say, it's so easy to clean. I noticed last year it was just starting to loosen along the woodwork behind the toilet bowl. It still looks so good. Another plus....you

don't ever see any cracks in the wall. If they're there.... we don't know it!

Patriot3 · ‎06-07-2010

No wallpaper for me. Yes, it looks nice until you get tired of it and have to remove it!

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

I love wall paper and have used it in my home for 40+years. To me it never went out of style. It its a great accent to any room.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

Wallpaper never went out totally, in my house.

We bought this house 26 years ago, and we papered some rooms, painted others. Two of the four still have paper, and it is still the original I picked back then. Still love them as much as I did the day it was hung.

I tend to know what I like, and enjoy and like it for decades. I do eventually embrace change, and have moved to a different look in some areas of the house, but I don't tend to go with the latest fad, usually give a lot of thought to what I want, and end up being happy with what I choose in home decor for many many years before wanting a change.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@caroln242 wrote:
About 20 years ago I was selling my house and the realtor said I absolutely had to get rid of the wallpaper in one of my bedrooms. She made it sound like I'd never sell the house if I didn't. It was just a nice muted flower print I put up in a victorian themed room, nothing horrendous. Anyway, it took me forever to get down that wallpaper and I actually sold the house before it was all down. So I don't think it impeded the sale in any way.

I also swore no more wallpaper, but here I am, 20 years later with wallpaper in one of my bedrooms again. It's rather low-key and unobtrusive... I like it. And if or when I sell this house, the buyers can turn up their noses at it all they want. I'm not taking it down this time!

I really can't believe that anyone would reject a house based on paint color on walls, or the fact walls were papered. It makes little sense.

Real estate is about location. It's about condition of the major components of the home (foundation, roof, electrical system, heating system, quality doors and windows, etc.). It's about the style of and architecture of the home.

I never look at a home's wall paper, paint colors, light fixtures, etc. All that can be changed rather easily. I'm about location, condition, and getting the style of home I want. These HGTV type shows have created excessive expectations and taken a lot of people's focus off of what is really important in buying a home.

Tessa Mendoza · ‎01-27-2020

I like subtle wallpaper in small doses. When we moved into our home, 20 years ago, we had plenty of busy patterned wallpaper. Ugly. We had it professionally removed and the walls painted No problem. Now, we have a little of it here and there and I love it. We can alway have it removed and walls painted if we tire of it at some point.

jannabelle1 · ‎09-12-2010

I put up a lot of wallpaper in my 30s and 40s, but never again! Some papers are beautiful, but it's a big, tiring job to do (I didn't hire the job out), and at some point I'd get tired of the pattern or color and want to change it. Someone here mentioned that the walls aren't the same afterward, and that's true. So for me, it can be "back", but never again for me! LOL!

Katcat1 · ‎07-21-2011

At this stage in my life, I could care less about wallpaper. Too much work for one thing. When I was in my early teens i had wallpaper on one wall. I also had wallpaper in my bedroom in my early-mid 20's. I never had wallpaper in my townhomes and now I am in an apt. so it's a no but like said earlier it's a lot of work. You need to prime which is very important so when you take it down it's not a hassle.

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