Do you have wallpaper or border in your house?

[DisneyBeagle]

Growing up it seemed like every surface in our house was wallpapered. Is wallpaper still popular?

 

[Molliday]

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

 

[ilovepcot]

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

 

[AKL_Megs]

No, no, no, no, NO!!!

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

No, none in my home.

 

[kirstenb1]

We built our current home 13 yrs ago. No wallpaper or borders. However, I wouldn't rule them out. Since I haven't hired a decorator, it's just me. I'm fairly plain with paint and accent colors (pillows and throws, and artwork)

 

[snowy76]

Generally it's out.

Recently though, I have seen a couple of the designing shows use wallpaper sparingly - more along the lines of one accent wall in the room. Some of the new stuff out there is textured and made to be painted. I've also seen some extremely modern patterns used this way.

 

[RachaelA]

We bought our new house in August 09 and spent the next 3 months (weekends only) taking down wallpaper off every single wall and ceiling (yes ceiling!!). Our house is 2500 sq ft and none of the walls were primed before the wallpaper went on.

I never want to see wallpaper again!

My parents have a lot up, but its definitely not a modern home.

 

[ohiomom28]

We just moved in so it's from the previous owner, but the kitchen is partially wallpapered and the living room is wallpapered from the chair rail up. I don't mind it yet...

 

[NMAmy]

Well, we have it but we're slowly getting rid of it. The lady who owned the house before us REALLY liked the wallpaper. I mean, seriously, who puts up plain white wallpaper in a dining room when the walls are not damaged at all?

I like her taste in pretty much everything else in the house but I'll be glad when we get rid of all of the wallpaper and it will never touch our walls again as long as I own the house.

 

[Christine]

I think it's out for the most part.

I moved into my house in 1994 and it was pretty big then. I have a huge kitchen and wallpapered it immediately. It was actually pretty cool looking. The only other thing I wallpapered was my powder room. The kitchen wallpaper is LONG gone but I have yet to take down the powder room paper. Why? Because I don't know what to do in there. Plain, painted bathrooms bug me. They look ugly to me. Not sure what I'm going to do. Yet, if I go into model homes, they often have the powder room wallpapered still. Not sure why that is.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Not a stitch. My house was built in 2008.

We do plan on selling in a few yrs (economy willing) and maybe my next house might have it. That is going to be our "forever home", which we plan on staying in till death or condo do us part.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I don't think it's out, it's just expensive &/or time consuming to deal with so people prefer to not deal with it. I suppose this might be something to consider if ever trying to sell a home, they say the less personalized the space the better.

When I look at model homes they still use it here and there so I like it the way they use it, in small doses. I'm mostly a fan of borders, they can easily set a mood in a room or tie in colors in a big space.

We are the first owners of our home. When we first moved in I put up country wall paper in my breakfast nook/bay window area and a border around the cooking part of the kitchen, it was all very pretty. But eventually I got sick of the colors and the 'country' thing so I took it all down with DIF which worked like a charm.

When we repainted we put in border in my cooking kitchen area and in my son's bedroom, my daughter actually has polka dots all over the place, but that's it, the rest of the house is walls. Oh, we do have chair rails in 2 rooms and crown molding ect. in one of them to set them apart. I guess I just prefer a touch of something different. To each their own

 

[daisyduck123]

Nope. Can't stand the stuff...it's way to difficult to remove.

 

[aprilgail2]

No wallpaper here and no paneling! Back in the 70's my dad paneled most of the rooms and what he didn't panel he wallpapered. What a mess getting both those things off the walls! I ended up just getting 4 rooms resheetrocked because of the damage to the walls from them!
I think bot hwallpaper and paneling make a house look very dated

 

[Fly4free]

We bought our new house in August 09 and spent the next 3 months (weekends only) taking down wallpaper off every single wall and ceiling (yes ceiling!!). Our house is 2500 sq ft and none of the walls were primed before the wallpaper went on.

I never want to see wallpaper again!

My house too!! Walls and ceilings were never primed. They just put wallpaper on every wall and ceiling!!! What a mess to get rid of. I will never buy a house built in the 50's again.

 

[PatsGirl]

Both my kitchen and master bath are wallpapered. I don't particularly like either one anymore but I get LOTS of compliments on my bathroom paper. Maybe I'll make that a winter project for some much needed eye-appeal sprucing up

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My house was built in the early 60's and we've been here over 20 years. Every room was wallpapered and/or bordered at one time or another. Hey, it was the style then! (Laugh, but some of the things you're doing and loving right now will also go out of style in a decade or so, too! )

Good news is that it's almost gone. My half bath/laundry room still has wallpaper and a border (stripes on the bottom and hearts on the top ), family room still has an teddy bear border (last re-done when our kids were little), and our bedroom still has a border which was one of the first things I bought and put up when we first bought the house lovestruc then). All will be going in the coming year. The good news is we put them up properly so they should come right down.

At one point my living room wallpaper was so old it had browned a bit. People used to come in and say they liked the way I "antiqued" the room.

 

[aprilgail2]

My house too!! Walls and ceilings were never primed. They just put wallpaper on every wall and ceiling!!! What a mess to get rid of. I will never buy a house built in the 50's again.

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!!!!

 

[golfgal]

My house too!! Walls and ceilings were never primed. They just put wallpaper on every wall and ceiling!!! What a mess to get rid of. I will never buy a house built in the 50's again.

That was our old house, EVERY surface was wallpapered. It was a HUGE pain to remove, NEVER again. In this house we had a small amount in the entry way that we removed-but it came off easily. The basement stairway and hallway is wallpapered but it looks like a faux paint job so we are leaving that.