Do you have wallpaper or border in your house?

[Molliday]

For everyone that likes it... wait until you have to remove it. Especially if the walls weren't primed first.

I watched that new show on DIY with Vanilla Ice the other day, and it showed them spraying a solvent on the paper and it coming down in perfect, 20' long sheets. My husband looked at me and asked why I wasn't able to take ours down without damaging our sheetrock, like it was something that I was doing wrong.

After the fourth room, I've learned to take down as much as you can, leave no loose edges, Kilz it, then put sheetrock mud over it. If it's stuck, it's s t u c k.

 

[kimmar067]

Only with me. I have a period home and it works well here.

....same here.

 

[kimmar067]

I took paneling off the wall thinking that was it I was done---but noooo.....my own father had paneled OVER wallpaper!!!
Oh and then there was the wall where I ripped the paneling off of only to fine MORE paneling UNDER it...he paneled over paneling!!!!

 

[indimom]

We bought our 1900 home in 2003. We spent the next two years removing wallpaper from every single room/hall/bath/closet in the house, including the ceilings. We used a rental steamer which made most of the paper come off very easy. The only hard parts were the ceilings( hard to steam off wallpaper there without getting burnt) and the spots with unprimed drywall (where windows/doors were moved or closed). Those were THE WORST!!!!
We have one room left with wallpaper. Our master bedroom. It's awful and way too dark! BUT, it's a huge attic room (20X40), all drywall and unprimed. UGH! We plan to just put up new drywall in there some day.
We still have paneling in the laundry room. I've considered painting it a pale yellow, but even that feels like too much work right now, so I just live with it.

All that being said, I do have border up in three rooms. It works well with our period home and 12 foot high walls. My sister has one room in her house wallpapered as an accent wall and I love it.
So, I don't hate wallpaper in moderation, but would NEVER paper an entire room again.

 

[Kae]

I don't have any in my house anymore but I must say I miss it in my kitchen just because I could scrub the heck out it.

Kae

 

[kimmar067]

We bought our 1900 home in 2003. We spent the next two years removing wallpaper from every single room/hall/bath/closet in the house, including the ceilings....

... wallpaper in a CLOSET??!?! And CEILINGS???

 

[golfgal]

The house I grew up in was built in the mid 1800's. I remember my parents (and us) taking off over 10 LAYERS of wall paper in the bedrooms. In one of the bedrooms they got down to bare plaster and found a history of the house (that room only had one layer). Every time someone had done something in that room, new wallpaper, they wrote down who they were, dates, etc. It was REALLY cool. Someone just renovated that house and I hope they found that and didn't paint over it. My sister was going to stop in and tell them about that room but I don't know if she ever did.

 

[Nohal]

We bought our home in1977 and every room was wallpapered even the ceilings. Over time we have rewallpapered the walls and painted the ceilings. We bought fabric backed vinyl which was easy to remove. Since then, we have removed all the wallpaper except for the kitchen which is next. I liked the wallpaper because you could scrub it and it gave the room pattern and texture and lasted a long time if you bought good quality paper. Now the paper that is available is very expensive and I am over wallpaper. Can't wait to get rid of it in the kitchen.

 

[chewbacca]

Our house was built in 1992 and we bought it in 2003. I am convinced that the people who lived here before us had a out of control obsession with wallpaper. Only one bedroom in the entire house (4beds 2 1/2 baths) did not have wallpaper! We are down to only 2 rooms left to tear down the paper (master bedroom and my computer room). I will never put that stuff on my walls again!

 

[Rora]

We don't have wallpaper. It seems a little outdated to me.

 

[mrsheppo]

I have wallpaper border in 2 rooms in my house. We recently redid the spare bathroom with an outdoor theme and DH picked out the border in a mountain hunting pattern. We repainted the kitchen last week and I found a vintage Mickey and Minnie border to go above the kitchen cabinets. I have quite a bit of Disney items in the kitchen so this goes well in there.

Bathroom

Kitchen

 

[HelenePA]

my house is VERY old.. 1920's and the walls are not in the best of shape when we moved in they all had horrible wallpaper on them which I removed and then saw the bad walls... sooo what am I going to do? rewallpaper them.. I dont have thousands of dollars lying around to resheetrock so what else can I do?? its that or panneling which I have in my living room.. lol

 

[cepmom]

we have wallpaper in one area of our house now...the kitchen/dining area. When we first bought the house, almost every room had wall paper. A huge pain to take down. We did put the paper up in the kitchen back in 1999...the walls aren't in great shape and I loved the paper at the time. Now, I don't hate it but I realize that wallpaper is dated. It will stay for the time being because DH killed himself putting it up straight and he would not be pleased with me if I took it down

 

[shortbun]

If I never see wallpaper again, it'll be too soon. I just removed the last of it from my house.

Ha! My feelings exactly. We moved in in December and I got on the list of a guy who does it cheap. He's also the slowest in the world apparently' cause I'm still waiting. I HATE IT!!!! Don't wallpaper if you think you might move in less than 5. It was the only flaw in this house or I'd have thought long before buying. Wallpaper removal is a huge pain. Not at all like painting.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

DS is nine now, but when he was a baby,we had a teddy bear border around his room at just below window level. When he was 11 months old, his crib was in the corner of his room just a little bit away from the walls and he ripped the border off on both those walls! That was the only place we had border / wall paper in our house and it was never in our home growing up either.

 

[Disney Doll]

When we bought the house, the bathroom was wallpapered. The kitchen was panelled, with wallpaper under it, and with more wallpaper under that!

Now my entire house is white. My woodwork is a medium bron...I love the contrast! The downstairs bathroom is yellow. Upstairs is lavender.

No wallpaper!

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Our kids rooms have ALWAYS had one wall wallpapered and borders on the rest of the walls.

last year We removed borders and paper and repainted and surfaced everything.. the kids were then allowed to pick themselves a FATHEAD.