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[ninjawife]

I have had some very negative expereinces with removing wallpaper in my parent's home and in my first home. I have no desire to ever put up wallpaper in fear that someday I may want to take it down.  I have done some creative designs with paint in my previous house.  In my current house most of the walls are neutral.  

[granddi]

Used to set for hours and hours choosing wall paper. 

My favorite room that we papered was a small bathroom including the ceiling. And our marriage survived!

[ECBG]

I love wall paper and would love to redo the kitchen in a soft "peeling plaster" creamy neutral.  

I just don't want to put up with the mess!

[shoptilyadropagain]

I've never cared for wallpaper and didn't care for it 40 years ago when it was really popular.  When I see it, It's like a nails on chalkboard moment for me.

[stevieb]

I enjoy wallpaper assuming you can find a true professional to hang it. Like painters, it seems many essentially unskilled workers think they can call themselves painters, but they aren't professionals and the finished product often shows. 

[Zhills]

I do like a wallpapered "accent wall" in a large room.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

I love wallpaper, and while I do not have any in this home, our previous home had wallpaper.....I think it is pretty in bedrooms, foyers, and 1/2 baths or powder rooms.....I like real serene soft looks though-nothing too bold......

Depending on the print/color and room it can be really pretty to me...

[Bri369]

I do like wallpaper.  I currently do not have any in my home, but I've been thinking about using some in the primary bedroom.  

I think the kitchen would be my least favorite place to see it, especially once it starts looking work and tattered.   

[jannabelle1]

I love some of the wallpaper designs - it just depends. I don't have any walls papered in my current home and plan to keep it that way. I've had quite a few rooms papered in previous homes and liked it a lot, but I wonder if the new homeowners kept it or had it removed. That's the problem with wallpaper - removing it. I love the beautiful white on white sample shown earlier - very classy.

[Enufstuff]

@Desert Lily  In 1967, on the day that Elvis and Priscilla married, we moved into our first house, when I was 19 years old.

  My aunt, who wallpapered professionally, taught me how to wallpaper.

  Over the 12 years, that we lived there, I painted the woodwork and wallpapered 10 rooms in that 1898 Victorian. My husband painted the ceilings.

  In our present 1914 house, I have wallpapered and painted 9 rooms. The bedroom walls are painted.

 When you buy an old house  that already has wallpaper, it is

more economical ( and easier for me) to wallpaper and paint

woodwork as opposed to stripping all the wallpaper and having the walls redone like new, for painting.

  I remember those bold colors from the 60's. I like the blue and white tile pattern. At one time, I worked in a wallpaper

store as a consultant, back in the 70's, after studying Interior Design at our local college.

  I loved decorating the rooms in my houses and I let the children help to choose the colors and patterns for their rooms.

  In my present house, the living room wallpaper is a pattern that looks like the sponge painted walls that were popular about 25 years ago.

  The TV room is a neutral sand  color textured paper.

  My bathroom is a textured sand color on the bottom half and

a cooordinating paper with tiny clusters of peach flowers. It fits the Victorian decor in that room.

  A hallway is a textured light sky blue, towards pale aqua.

  The kitchen has stained wainscotting with wallpaper on the top half. It is a white background with a 1940's - 50's vibe pattern.

 The navy blue, diagonal lines form diamond shapes, 5" square. Alternating with the white diamonds are diamonds with clusters of cherries or strawberries, on white.

   Red is my kitchen accent color with red and white gingham check curtains, red coffee maker and red Kitchen Aid mixer.

   My husband's bathroom has a powder blue and pale green

plaid paper, with a lot of white background between the lines of plaid. The bottom half is painted powder blue.

  I like the painted bedrooms, but I also like my papered rooms.