My DIL put up some peel and stick wallpaper, and it looks gorgeous!!

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Anonymous wrote:Wallpaper wouldn’t deter me from buying a house I wanted. I would be cursing your name as I worked on removing it though.

Yes, and that wallpaper is hideous.

I don't mind wallpaper and I removed a ton of it from my house when I bought it, rented a giant iron type machine, which made removal a breeze... but... that wallpaper is beyond hideous. To be blunt, it's revolting and stomach turning, you will get zero return playdates and your kids will need major therapy, mark my words.

We just pulled peel and stick wallpaper off of a room in our house, and have also installed/removed real wallpaper.

The peel & stick did pull off some patches of paint, so we'll need to do some repair and a fresh coat of paint. But overall it was 1000 times easier to put up and to remove than the real kind. Paste wallpaper took days of scoring, soaking, and peeling small sections, then left the walls damaged enough that they needed a lot of patching and smoothing before we could prime and paint. The peel & stick kind took a few hours to put up, and about 20 minutes to take down. There are only a few patches that need to be smoothed out before we paint over them.

It doesn't look as professional as the real kind, but for a kids room or playroom, I would use it again.

Anonymous wrote:Wallpaper wouldn’t deter me from buying a house I wanted. I would be cursing your name as I worked on removing it though.

This.

My mom just paid $1K for wallpaper removal, wall repair near a laundry vent, and fresh repainting of a really small laundry room. We couldn't DIY paint it because she's too old and I don't have vacation to spare on wallpaper removal.

Pick a fun color paint and be done with it.

I really don't like those squiggles and unless the rest of your house is quirky, they won't blend.

When I was a kid, our neighbor let her teen daughter paint her bedroom magenta and paint a black and white zebra on the biggest wall. Many years later, I visited the new neighbors and you could still see the black parts of the zebra underneath 3 coats of white paint. That was my formative experience as far as not inflicting your taste permanently on others.

Even though I don't believe one should keep one's house neutral and bland, I like easily reversible decorating when it comes to bold decisions.

Maybe try fabric or canvas art on stretchers? Google Marimekko wall hangings.

Peel and stick and do one wall only.

Anonymous wrote:Wallpaper wouldn’t deter me from buying a house I wanted. I would be cursing your name as I worked on removing it though.

Yes, and that wallpaper is hideous.

In what way did it destroy your walls? np here

Regular. Peel and stick destroyed our walls

Having peeled off wallpaper in our current house 26 years ago, I'm never buying a house with it again. Do peel and stick and get rid of it before you sell

I think peel and stick is supposedly worse to work with than regular wallpaper? Like it sounds convenient but if you don’t line it up perfectly, you can’t just adjust it like wallpaper that uses paste.

Wallpaper wouldn’t deter me from buying a house I wanted. I would be cursing your name as I worked on removing it though.

5 yrs is a long time. If you like it, put it up.
That said, it would put me off so peel and stick is perfect solution.

We are considering wallpapering a wall in our playroom/rec room with this paper: https://rebelwalls.com/serpentine-pastel
We will probably sell in 5-7 years. Should we do peel and stick? Would this paper put you off?