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@MarkeieMark wrote:

Ladies, thank you so much for replying especially on your Friday evening.  I really appreciate it.  Guess I could pay to have it taken off when and if ever sell, but that sounds like a hassle too.  I got to think more!! 

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I don't know what's on the market these days because I no longer wallpaper, but if you decide to try a wall or two I would ensure that it's strippable and not put on with adhesive.

[Mominohio]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I stay away from it, although I like it, because it's a pain in the neck to remove.  If you plan to sell your house in the future, it almost has to be removed to sell because patterns are so personal, probably nobody will like yours.  I was just reading on how to sell your house on Realtor. Com that it should be removed. 

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I agree.  I looked at pictures of homes online before we bought recently and I skipped over any that had a number of wallpapered walls.  Just more work than I wanted to take on.

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It's really interesting how different the housing market can be in different areas. Here, they of course will tell you to paint and remove wallpaper, but honestly I used to have a 'hobby' of going to open houses, and know a number of realtors, and getting the right house to BUY (not lease or rent) is rarely determined by what is on the walls. 

That is so easily changed, and any serious buyer is looking at location, style of architecture, number of rooms, layout and big things like the foundation, roof, age and condition of heating system, plumbing, and maybe the style/condition of the kitchen and baths, etc. 

I'd never pass by the 'perfect' house because of needing to change the wall coverings or color, and most people will simply negotiate that into their offer, especially if they are old or outdated. 

[Sweetbay magnolia]

My "local" (large metro area) newspaper had an article on wallpaper just last week, and as @Mominohio says, apparently it is generating interest again, particularly in the "younger" set.

I found it interesting, too, that the author pointed out that new wallpapers are much easier to strip than ever.

There's lots of paper in our home.  When we bought, our agent kept pressing for the owner at the time to take it down.  I said no!  I like it!  (it will be a tremendous pain to remove.  It is old and true "paper", not at all strippable without probably steaming.  But I like it).

[KatieB]

I love wall paper.  I think it looks so much better than painted walls.   I have the same wall paper in my house that was hung in 1994 and it is still beautiful.  I have it in the kitchen (above chair rail) and in the bathrooms.

[proudlyfromNJ]

For me it is no to wallpaper. 

[Bri36]

No wallpaper or border paper. 

[AnikaBrodie]

I like wallpaper and still  have it in several rooms.  Personally, I don't think wallpaper ever goes out of style.  For me it's what I like, not what the interior decorators want me to like.

[151949]

When we sold our Pittsburgh home there was still wallpaper in the bathroom, the master bedroom and one of the other bedrooms. The new owner tells me it is still there, & she loves it.

[Irshgrl31201]

I love wallpaper. Wallpaper is absolutely not out and as a matter of fact is making a huge comeback. 

It actually hasn't been out but it was mainly in homes that were more on the expensive side. I can remember going with a friend who was house hunting and she had a substantial budget and almost every home she looked at not only had wallpaper but some of the most beautiful wallpapers I had seen. Some were hand painted. I fell so in love with one and did a little detective work and found the manufacturer and it was a French company and I nearly died when I found out the price. It was hand painted so I do realize that cost more because of the labor that went into but still. Even the closets of these homes were wallpapered which I do happen to like too. They were just beautiful.

Wallpaper is one of those things that I leave to the professionals because I usually pick the kind that has definite designs and is crucial that it meets up  and if it doesn't, it looks like a hot mess. Some things I will do to save money but for me, this is not one of them. My interior designer recommended my wall paper hanger and she did a wonderful job She is a lady in her 60s and it is just mesmerizing watching how quickly and efficiently she worked. She did make one mistake (actually it was her son) on one of the rooms that had the most expensive wallpaper in it. I wasn't on the hook for the price of that either which is something to consider. That would have been a very expensive lesson for me if I was the one hanging the wallpaper and I would have made a ton of mistakes I am sure. I don't even want to deal with that because I know any money I would save from hanging it myself, I would have ended up paying at least 3 times more from the mistakes.

It never fails that the paper I end up picking out is the most expensive kind. When I moved several years back I worked with an interior decorator and mainly because she could give me access to several furniture stores in High Point that aren't open to the public and only designers. I needed that because much of the furniture I wanted was from one of those stores but she had tons of wallpaper books. Just so much fun looking through those but they didn't have prices right on there so I would going through these books picking out the many I loved only to find out they were out of my price range. Ugh! The kind I usually end up liking is not the kind I can get at Home Depot and places like that. She could get me a discount too though and looked for deals by finding a discontinued paper, I just made sure there was more than enough to do the room I was doing plus a little extra. I don't have every room wallpapered but I would say about 70% of our house is. Most every room was wallpapered but I didn't like any of course. It wasn't that I didn't like it per se but it didn't go with our furniture and/or window treatments or the overall vision I had for the house that I wanted.

If you have a friend who is an interior designer you could go through her books and she could help you find something in your budget if you aren't seeing any home improvement stores.

I think a great wallpaper finishes a room in a way that paint cannot always do. 

Wallpaper is very personal though so it isn't the greatest if you are looking to sell soon. I am not looking to sell anytime soon though but when I do, I will probably just have the same person that hung it come in and remove and paint a color that will be considered neutral. 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I used to love it and decorated a lot with it.  I can't count the untold hours we spent removing it when redecorating.  I never liked the idea of painting over paper, but I can see why some people would do it.  Sometimes it felt like that paper couldn't even be blasted off!  Aside from one room, we have finally removed all the wallpaper and never want it up again.  When we converted a bedroom into an office a couple of years ago, I purposely put up a border that I'd been saving for quite some time.  That's the only room with any paper now.  I waited a long time to have an actual office space and decorated in a fun way.  I'm getting a little tired of it now, but I don't dare ask DH to redo it yet.  We have a lot of other spring projects to tackle so it'll have to wait.