Don't do it!!! PLEEEEEASSSSEEE for the love of God DON'T DO IT!

[friesianrider]

I am begging you, pleading, down on my hands and knees...

DO. NOT. EVER. WALLPAPER. YOUR. HOUSE.

Uggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!

You must excuse my psychosis right now, because I am going on 7 straight hours of removing wallpaper. I LOVE our new house, but the previous owners saw fit to wallpaper every fucking thing that would sit still. There were 5 patterns of wallpaper/borders in my room, and they thought it would be lovely to do every room in a different "theme". You can stand in a certain spot in our kitchen and see 11 different patterns of wallpaper between the family room, kitchen, dining room, and foyer.

FYI, there was an old barn on this property, which has just been torn down, but the old owners even wallpapered in the barn. Seriously, she wallpapered in the barn. Who does that!!??

Maybe the fumes of wallpaper glue are just getting to me...perhaps I should lie down...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Been there, done that

My grandmother even wallpapered the ceilings of the apartments in the apartment house she owned in the 50s and 60s. I took evey scrap of wallpaper off the walls of the houses I have owned, and don't plan on putting any up.

[friesianrider]

4. I am so bloody sick of it...

My hands have callouses and burns on them from the damn steamer remover thing. And because they wallpapered everything to the Goddamned DRYWALL (no primer or paint or anything between the drywall and wallpaper), it gouges the crap out of the walls no matter how hard I try not to. I'll be spackling and sanding for the next 10 years once I get all the paper off.

[Mutley]

2. Wow.

I have the ugliest wallpaper ever in my bedroom that the previous residents put up. They also put these hideous flower stencil things in the kitchen, and a weird turquoise paint with fishy type border in the bathroom. Some people have odd decorating tastes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Wallpaper should be banned, except for people who pass some

kind of taste test.

Why is it that, of all wallpaper, there are maybe 3 patterns that aren't fucking awful?

I FUCKING HATE wallpaper.

People who would put up wallpaper should be sterilized.

[friesianrider]

6. I couldn't agree more.

Especially about the three NICE, tasteful patterns. Everything else is hideous.

And what kills me is, wallpaper's a fucking bitch to put up too! All the unrolling and glue and lining up patterns...it's as big a pain in the ass to remove as it is to put up.

[hfojvt]

5. is there any yellow wallpaper?

that can really send you over the edge.

[murielm99]

7. I thought yellow wallpaper only sent women over the edge.

nt

[rateyes]

8. OK, OK, OK---I won't, I promise!!

:)

[friesianrider]

9. PHOTOS...

This is the guest room (welcome to my home!!!!!!!!!):



The office, which had this TASTEFUL (:sarcasm:)green stripe on top, and a lovely fake particleboard below (she even fake wood-wallpapered the outlet covers):



The foyer:



The wallpaper in the barn (this hideous building was torn down first thing):



The family room:

[wovenpaint]

12. oooouch-you have my sympathies!

The family room especially! YIKES :crazy:
Good luck on the renovations. Keep your eyes on the goal (and away from those patterns!!).....you WILL have a beautiful home-eventually!

[XemaSab]

15. I'm sure the avocado paisley couch

and the orange plaid chair will be right at home with that wallpaper in the family room.

[blondeatlast]

10. I kid not--there is faux finish wallpaper in my bedroom

that I want rid of, but I just don't have the energy.

Since it's only the bedroom, perhaps I'll hire a pro, especially after your warning.

FAUX FINISH WALLPAPER--yes, indeed, what every fashionable home needs. :shrug:

[friesianrider]

14. Haha...

We've got that in the basement - faux green finish wallpaper :eyes:

I seriously wonder what goes through one's mind. To think that not one but BOTH husband and wife looked at that and said "yeah, that looks great hun!"

It isn't bad removing wallpaper so long as the drywall is treated first (which you have no way of knowing until you start scraping). If you can afford it, definitely hire a pro. If we hired a pro to remove all the wallpaper in this house, we would have had to take out a second mortgage just to pay him!

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. For quicker removal and sanity, I'd just take down the drywall as well

and start from scratch.

Why spend hours and hours nad hours ripping down wallpaper, when you can do it in a couple minutes with a claw hammer and a sawzall, and, while you're at it, have a chance to check all the studs and everything inside the walls. Maybe even do some rewiring.

[nini]

11. the drywall wasn't treated before wallpaper was put up in my place

the previous owners should be shot.

The paper in the drywall came up in spots when trying to remove the wallpaper. I gave up and had the walls textured over the wallpaper.

PISSED ME OFF.



I'm with you.. I hate the wallpaper in the first place, but if you're going to put it up at least prepare the walls first.

[Sanity Claws]

13. Wear sunglasses

Maybe that will make all those different patterns less visible.
You have my sympathies.

[Groggy]

16. I feel your pain!!!

I moved into a house that had wallpaper in EVERY ROOM too! Plus, remember those 70's mirror tiles? One whole wall. IT totally sucks to have to remove that crap. I will never EVER put it in my house. I totally understand. I have a whole kitchen of pink wallpaper that I've got to take down..just that one left and one bedroom. Hang in there!!

[Dave Reynolds]

17. I prefer vinyl siding.

Oh wait...were you talking about the inside?

My bad.