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Wallpaper? - Clicky poll
I think I may be the only person alive who doesn't hate wallpaper.
I'm considering wallpapering the top half of the walls of a bedroom, painting the bottom half, and using chairrail to separate them. It'd be a yellow/white stripe.
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Re: Wallpaper? - Clicky poll
It depends on the wallpaper you use. If you use something classic and not an eyesore, I don't think it would be a problem for selling.
I will not be buying a house with a TON of wallpaper, because our last house had that and it was a pain to take off. However it was a house from the 70s and the style of wallpaper was awful.
My parents did something similar in their downstairs bathroom. Beige below the chair rail and navy blue/beige paisley wallpaper above. It looks great. My mom always picks these bizzare wallpapers that end up looking amazing.
I don't think wallpaper screams 1970, some of the newer ones are quite lovely.
That being said ... a house with wallpaper was a deal breaker for me when buying my last house after a horrible experience with wallpaper previously. In my first house, there was wallpaper in the bathrooms, and I didn't think it would be a big deal to remove the wallpaper. It was just in the bathrooms, so not worth passing up the house just because of the wallpaper. Wrong. Getting that wallpaper out of the bathrooms was the worst project I have ever done in my life. Seriously - it was awful. Not only was there ugly old-lady wallpaper from 1987 that I could see, there were two other layers of even uglier old lady wallpaper underneath. It was so hard to get the wallpaper off that I ended up damaging the walls bad enough that I had to do a lot of repair work to even get the walls in condition to paint. Such a hassle and frustration. I will never use wallpaper or buy a house with wallpaper again.
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As long as it's not in a lot of rooms, I can look past it.
We saw some houses that have every single inch COVERED in wallpaper - including switch plate covers and the shelves in the kitchen cabinets and linen closets. There were other reasons we passed on the house, but one MAJOR reason is the fact that we did not want the hassle or expense of redoing ALL of those walls.
ETA: The house we bought has *some* wallpaper in it, but it actually fits our tastes, so we're leaving it.
Ditto this. Stripes are boring and can be done easily with paint. Definitely "why bother".
SBP - those are really pretty and def. '40s throwback. We have the same idea of acceptable wallpaper.
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No offense to this poster, but none of these choices are my style. I would hate it and it would make me question the house if there was a lot of it around.
*Edited to fix spelling
Yeah, I clearly haven't thought this through. I think paint probably would be a better option...
I just saw this on Pinterest and liked it (half the wall):
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Agreed - easy solution. Not sure why it didn't cross my mind.
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Either way I think it will look great! I actually like the stripe idea, and doing only half the wall won't be too overwhelming to any future home buyers. I like the idea of wallpaper though... I love designs (like the ones shown above) because it gives a little interest to the room and to me you really can't screw up the line (which can happen with paint).
Also, a little suggestion in wallpaper removal if you don't like it... hot water and fabric softener in a squirt bottle seems to take it right off. Just soak the paper, and it should peel right off... plus it smells fabulous and makes the whole house smell amazing! *I manage a huge Victorian DV shelter and this little concoction has been a life saver!
Enjoy and Good Luck!
IF you pick something classic and simple, if it is done right and looks nice - then I don't think someone is going to have an issue unless they simply hate that color.
If we are talking about one room or small areas of wallpaper that I might have to take down for my own color schemes then I would not let that impact my purchasing a home. If we are talking a whole house of wallpaper or large sections then I would certainly take it under consideration of other things that might have to be done to that home to make it mine but wouldn't entirely discount it.
I do think that wallpapering can become an addiction. You do it in one small spot - love it and ... makes you want to do it elsewhere. lol
Aahhhh... if only it were that simple. I like some wallpaper patterns but like someone said, it often becomes an addiction. Unfortunately we fell in love with a fixer-upper that has/had wallpaper everywhere. I spent the first two weeks peeling and scraping the living room, dining room and partial kitchen so we could paint. Steamers didn't work, hot water and fabric softener did ok on taking off the adhesive but really i had to get the walls soaked and use a scraper to get it off. Currently, my hallway has 3 layers, the ceilings are wallpapered and painted, the office is wallpapered and painted, the guest room is wallpapered (maybe painted, maybe not) our bedroom, = more cream colored wallpaper with a nice border, master bath = floral wallpaper, guest bath = floral wallpaper. I hate wallpaper and really really love the house so hopefully most of it gets taken down this year.
I like wallpaper but will probably never do it because it seems like a giant PITA.
Only dated wallpaper is dated. There are elegant, good looking wallpaper patterns out there. Choose carefully and you'll be fine.
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The house that we purchased 2 years ago had wall-paper everywhere - the kind that wasn't properly applied so it was absolute h*ll to remove and caused some damage to the wall that we had to deal with. Everyone kept saying, "no big deal to remove." I'll never do that again, and I'm being dead serious. I would either a) ask for a seller concession to remove the wallpaper and prime the walls for painting b) not buy the house.
Me, too - except it was the entire upper floor of my house. I honestly had a flashback reading this. I need a drink.
A tough question....generally i hate wallpaper, but having said that there are times that i have seen it done and look nice...however its usually when its only a feature wall, and therefor paint or the removable wall stickers would have the same effect.
Because of the wording on the poll answers, im wondering if you are planning on being in this house for just a short time and then trying to sell it. If you have plans to sell in the next 5 years i would just avoid it completely since most buyers are not going to have the exact same taste and it can be a pain to remove. If you are going to be there for 20 or 30 years, then its your house, your the one who has to look at it, and it CAN be tastefully done...its just a pain to take off.
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You would need to paint after 5 years before resale anyways. If you love the wall paper, put it up and just take it down when you sell. Wall paper in a house for sale always looked lazy to me. You know that I, the buyer, probably have different taste. Taking it done is a PITA. Why make me do it?
(Having said that, we bought our house despite a single accent wall of crappy wallpaper in one of the bathrooms. Every time I walk in there I wish we'd stated in the contract they had to get it off repaint before closing. So perhaps you'll get lucky with a sucker like me.)