When we bought our house about 25 years ago, every bedroom and one bathroom had wallpaper. The patterns were getting dated and needed to be removed but it turned out that -- maybe because we have textured walls -- they had been adhered with this tissue paper kind of underpaper that made it impossible to remove. We eventually had to hire someone to skim coat and retexture over that stuff. Soooo, I swore I would never, EVER put up wallpaper. Fast forward to today when I am intrigued by the possibility of putting some cute wallpaper in our powder room. I am thinking if I did peel and stick, it could be removed when I get tired of it. I know it can be a challenge for textured walls but I see some brands that people say work and there isn't a shower in there so no significant moisture. Has anyone tried peel and stick and did you like it? Hard to put up? Any other advice? Or, just general nightmare stories of removing regular wallpaper are welcome.
I've never heard of peel and stick, I guess it's relatively new. We did some wall papering of our old house (over 24 years ago). We were going to paint, but the painted woodchip paper that was all over the house was damaged and needed taking down, it took part of the plaster board down with it. So after patching up the walls, we put lining paper up in the kitchen and painted over that. You won't believe how much paint soaks into lining paper. It took 3 coats. That was so much effort that we simply wall papered the rest of the house.
I keep seeing this in my reels, but I have no experience with it! Wallpaper, like many other housing materials, has it's ups and downs. I remember when I wanted to paint my old bedroom in high school. I had to get the wall paper down first... it wasn't difficult, but time consuming. I had to use this tool to score it and then I steamed it for the glue. I guess that might be the reason I never put wallpaper up, lol! Though peel and stick... the ease in which to remove it might factor in, lol!
I don't know about "modern" peel and stick wallpaper, but the "easy to remove" (wet and peel) wallpaper and border that I put up 30 years ago is NOT easy to remove. I'm going to have to do what Jenn did ... score the wallpaper, then steam it off. Ugh! That Classic Winnie the Pooh border I put up 30 years ago, may stay up another 30, lol!!!
I haven't tried it, but I have seen it on the internet and think it looks good. I'm too chicken to try it, so you'll have to let us know if you do.
I haven't tried the peel and stick kind. I'm like you, when we bought our house every single room had wallpaper and it took SO MUCH WORK to get it all off so we could paint the walls that I swore I'd never put any wallpaper up again. I did do a wallpaper border in both of my kids' rooms when they were born, but that came off easily years later when they weren't babies anymore. I'd say that you could probably find some online and read the reviews there. I've found reviews for stuff like that usually are pretty helpful and if there aren't any horror stories there, you'd probably be safe to give it a go!
I've never had wallpaper removed from the walls in my house before painting. All the walls are plaster and were painted when my parents built the house in 1964. In the late 70's Mom had wall paper put on the walls of the living room, hall, one wall of the dining room. The bathroom also had wall paper. In 2012 I painted over the wall paper in the bathroom. The paint was refreshed when I had it remodeled in 2017. A month after the bathroom remodel I had the kitchen/dining room area remodeled. They were painting the kitchen the same color and they painted over the wall paper on the one wall in the dining room. The original painting of the bathroom did need 2 coats. The painting in the dining room only needed 1 coat since I was using a dark color over very light wall paper. I've thought about having all the other wall paper painted over but just haven't done it. The pattern is very small with a beige background. From a distance you actually can't see the pattern, it just looks like a beige wall.
I have a dressing room with large flowered wallpaper that I love, it covers one wall, it is so funky. But...it was there when we bought the house last year and I dread if we ever need to take it down. Never heard of peel and stick wallpaper but in general, I think wall paper is a PITA.
My parents have an old farmhouse built in the 1800s and they have wallpapered some plaster walls. I swear that wallpaper is holding those walls together so painting over it may be the only choice!
I've had no issues painting over the wall paper. I'll let whoever owns the house after I'm gone deal with it! LOL
I have seen some really gorgeous peel and stick wallpaper, but have never tried it myself. I think I have PTSD from all the wallpaper that I took down in this house when we moved in, so even the thought of peel and stick hasn't appealed to me LOL.
I have added some in two places now. It’s not too bad, would potentially be easier with a helper to hold one side while you position. It can sometimes stick to itself, but it is possible to peel it apart. I don’t think it’s any harder than regular wallpaper to hang. I really don’t know if it is easy to peel off or not. My walls are slightly textured and it has stuck fine. I’ll try and come back with a couple of pictures. I did a partial wall in my master closet a couple years ago, and I just recently did a bit in my office closet where I relocated my cat litter box. This was just a practical solution for cleanup, not really for aesthetics. I really loved this for my closet when I found it (Target online) I had a different plan for this one, but had it, so when I relocated the litter box, I added it to the lower part of the walls since it is washable.
I have never tried peel and stick wallpapers but we have wallpapers in every room in our house. We painted some rooms when we moved in 18 years ago, but we painted on top of the wallpapers. In the big living room we had to remove all the old wallpapers before we could put up the new ones. But the ceiling was a real pain, we had to paint it four times to cover it.
All I can see now is the nightmare of pulling all the wallpaper down when we moved into our house. I don’t think I could compel and stick wallpaper either because I have a feeling I wouldn’t be able to hang it straight
I haven't tried it, but I would be willing to. I've also wanted to paint my laundry room tiles... that scared my husband so in the new house he was like, go pick the tile you want, I do NOT want you experimenting on the floor. I think I should have been offended by his lack of faith in me.
I have no experience, but am also intrigued ... so I asked chatGPT about how easy it is to remove modern peel and stick wall paper. I feel like testing it may not really tell you how easy it is to remove since I'd imagine the longer it's on, the harder it is to remove.
