Seriously, couldn’t you just fall into this bed above and cuddle and read a book….or nap like a Queen.
(Do Queen’s nap? I mean all that Queen waving has to use a lot of energy.)
I love how this pattern above is used in a small powder room. You would think it would make your eyes cross and your stomach churn….but, in fact, the monochromatic tones makes the room feel larger. I love how it envelops the ceiling, as well.
And honestly, will a beautiful French toile ever go out of style? I melt whenever I see a beautiful wallpaper with these classic French scenes. Yep. Simply melt – like….well, French chocolate under a Tuscan Sun. *wink
So what say you? Yay or Nay to wallpaper?
Do you have it in your home?
Do your hands and knuckles still have the scars from hours and hours of mind-numbing scraping and you have sworn to the Decor Gods that no wallpaper shall ever grace your home again?
Now is your chance to let the world know your feelings. Ok, maybe not the world. But at least all my Bloggy friends will know. And me, too. 🙂
Let ‘er rip. Yay or Nay?
Dee @ A Lapin Life says
No more wallpaper for me. I removed it all two years ago and it was hard work. 🙂 I do get weak in the knees when I see beautiful papers.
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Dee – I do too. I have removed all the paper accept some icky border in my laundry room. Still, a pretty grasscloth makes me smile.
View CommentLeslie's Garden says
I’m in the ‘nay’ camp. I will forever have to have a plaster like wall in my bathroom because of the damage I caused trying to remove the wallpaper!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Oh no. Proof that a little prep work when wallpapering can go a looong way.
View CommentCecilia Bramhall says
All the wallpaper in my house has been removed (by me, ugh), except the dining room and I’m afraid it’s days may be numbered. So I’m a nay. 🙂
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
When you finish taking yours down, come on over and we’ll start on my border in my laundry room. Ugh, borders.
View CommentCecilia says
You got it! hahaha! If it wasn’t such a pain to take down (or put up, for that matter), I’d be in the yay class. However, I loathe taking it off. Borders offer their own challenge. Good luck!
View CommentSophia's says
I’ll be in the “Yay” camp on this one… and yes, I’ve spent hours removing inherited wallpaper from our first home. I think there are so many tasteful examples, liked the ones you showed, that you just can’t get with paint. I long for a grasscloth wall somewhere!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Me too Kristen. I have a few plans for adding some very soon. 🙂
View CommentJane@Cottage at the Crossroads says
Over the years, I have wallpapered and de-wallpapered so many rooms! I don’t think I would use it again except for something textured like grasscloth. Nothing make a room feel cozy like grasscloth!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Jane – I have rarely seen a grasscloth I didn’t love. 🙂
View CommentRamblings of a Southern Girl ~ Rhonda G says
I never say never! But taking down wallpaper is kind of like child-birth, it takes a while to want to jump back in and tackle it again! ha! I stripped many rooms and bathrooms in our current home, and still have three bathrooms that have not been done …but its a white tone on tone, so it looks okay. The last bathroom I did, even after trying to be extremely careful, took a little too much sheetrock with it in spots. I painted like mad, so my husband wouldn’t see it! Not that he usually complains about much. Somehow I just didn’t think it would go over well! ha! So back to your question! I do love the new colors and geometrics of wallpaper, but for me, for now …I’m gun-shy! …Nay!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
I think removing wallpaper may be WORSE than childbirth. haha
View CommentFABBY'S LIVING says
I’d say yey! I love wall paper and yes, it could be ugly and horroble too, your images show…but the beautiful ones are gorgeous! My daughter just walpapered her visits’s 1/2 bathroom, with a perfect wall paper that looks like stone and it looks amazing! Thanks for sharing. Big hugs,
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Barb @ The Everyday Home says
I have seen wallpapers that look like stones and brick, and they are very pretty.
View CommentTrina Miner says
I say, Nay! we scraped 8 layers of wallpaper off the walls in our first house. It must have been all the wallpaper ever hung since the beginning of time. There are some quite beautiful patterns out there, but it is too “semi-permanent” for me.
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Eight layers!!!??? Wow oh wow. No wonder you are a Nay. 🙂
View CommentAtta Girl Amy says
I say yay. I’ve never owned a house with wallpaper, but I’ve considered it for my powder room and dining room of my current home. Now, my inlaws have some nay versions in their mountain house. It was originally owned by a “decorator’s” son, and apparently, he took all his mama’s remnants and hung them in his house. Big daisies in the kitchen. Frogs in the bathroom. My inlaws have owned their mountain house for 30+ years and have never updated it, but someday I will. I will scrape away all that old wallpaper, except for the pale yellow toile in the living room. That can stay. But the rest is going. Unless frogs showering comes back in style!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
He must have been rebelling against his mother’s design sense. haha I sure hope frogs showering doesn’t come back in style. Just saying.
View CommentJen says
Yay and Nay…. I’m fickled like that.
View CommentWe just finished taking down cheesy “British Colonial”(complete with the little monkeys) wallpaper boarder leftover from the 80’s in our dining room, yet I have decided to keep the brown Greek “toile” type wallpaper in our master bathroom. I always hated wallpaper, and here I go keeping it in one room.
Barb @ The Everyday Home says
Love me some toile.
View CommentBetsy@ coastal-colors says
Yah, for me. I have several Thibaut and Schumacher patterns that I love! I think wallpaper needs to stay current, as paint color choices should. Updating is the key to me. I always have the walls prepped for easy removal of the paper.
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Betsy – def the two best wallpaper makers in my opinion.
View CommentKim @ Savvy Southern Style says
Oh, my aching fingers. I sprayed, scraped and peeled two small bathrooms to take the paper down. Of course some sheet rock paper pulled off, too. What a mess. We ended up doing the no no and painted over the paper in the kitchen and master bath. That’s right. I have paper under all that paint. We made sure all the seams were glued down good and plastered some of them and sanded smooth. No one can tell that the paper is there. I do adore grasscloth and always have. Regular wallpaper will not grace these walls again.
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Kim, I have painted over wallpaper before when OI knew removing it would cause more damage. If treated correctly, it can be done.
View CommentDanni Baird @ Silo Hill Farm says
Nay!! I have spent way too much time taking down wall paper to ever appreciate it!!
View CommentBarb @ The Everyday Home says
Can you imagine the walls of wallpaper thats been removed across America? I would love a dollar for every wall. 🙂
View CommentDeserae says
No wallpaper for this chickie EVA again! I don’t care how popular it becomes….I will admire it from afar in other people’s homes!!!! LOL
~Des
PS. Love your new weekly feature….so much fun :o)
View CommentJTwisdom says
I do not have wallpaper on my walls in my home but that toile printed wallpaper is really beautiful. I like wallpaper it’s just being able to pick out the right print for a particular room.
View CommentSuzy says
I guess you can put me in the “undecided” or “non-commital” column. I love the look of today’s wallpapers (especially grasscloth), but I so dislike removing it that I don’t believe I’ll ever have it again. Guess I’ll be a wallpaper lurker. 😉
View CommentSuzan says
My problem with wallpaper is the commitment. If you change your mind about a paint color you just paint over. Wallpaper is a pain to hang and a nightmare to remove. Now, if I had unlimited funds, I would use wallpaper in my bedroom, bath and probably the dining room. I have seen so many beautiful papers and I would love toile in my bedroom but it’s that fear of commitment again!
View Comment♥ Sonny ♥ says
No wallpaper on my Walls ever again..
View CommentNo I like it in small pieces for crafts and such- but on my walls- No way.
Cherie says
I love wallpaper in powder rooms and dining rooms but that is about it. Taking it down is the worst.
View CommentTracey says
It has to be the right room and the right paper. I no longer have any wall paper in my home, but it’s because I change my mind so often on color, it’s just easier to re-paint than to tear all that wall paper off the wall. Still…it depends!
View CommentMiss Char says
I just put bead board wallpaper in my stairwell and I love it. As for the main part of my house I’ve had wallpaper from time to time in my dining room but right now my walls are all clean and painted. It would have to be something pretty fabulous for me to think not about putting the paper up but a couple of years later having to remove it. Its just not a chore I want to think about anymore.
View CommentPat Freymuth says
I like the grass cloth Barb. If I did this, it would be in the powder room.Delores at Vignette Design has new grass cloth in her home and it is absolutely gorgeous!
J and I made a pact…no more wallpaper. Had it in several rooms in our home at he farm. We liked it until it needed removing.:-) So guess my answer is Nay.
View Commentℳartina @ Northern Nesting says
I had wallpaper in our powder room that I had a professional come in and take down. But we took a border down in our oldest daughter’s bathroom and what a mess that was!! I still love the look of certain wallpapers like the grass cloth and toile. I would consider using it again.
View CommentAlycia Nichols says
No can do! It was a nightmare getting it off at our previous home!!! I hired someone to remove it at our current home, and even HE as a professional had a tough time. They had that stuff on there SO tight that he nearly brought the drywall down! It would take an Act of Congress (and Lord knows they can’t get anything done!) to get me to acquiesce to wallpaper again!
View CommentCynthia says
I only have wallpaper in my powder room and it is a french paper. I love it but I wouldn’t do it anywhere else.
Cynthia
View CommentWild Oak Designs says
Wallpaper is nice….in other people’s homes. I spent hours removing wallpaper here in our home, including the below chair-rail paper I put up. Paint is much easier to redo…..though I like the designer homes, those will eventually become dated….
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Barbara Bussey {The Treasured Home} says
I think most of us, over 26, have had the extreme displeasure of removing someone else’s idea of true beauty. We once removed black plaid wallpaper from a small kitchen…even on the ceiling! Really? Yep!
View CommentI’m going to stick with simple cream colored walls, here at our place!
Congrat’s on your first week of full-time blogging!
Hugs,
Barbara
Kathysue says
Absolutely Yay! I have had wallpaper in all my homes and will probably always have wallpaper. I have experienced the arduous job of removal, but have always had the experts hang it. I still love paper especially in a powder room such a pretty addition to a small area. Love it!! I especially love papers by Thibault, so classic and timeless.
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Keeping it Cozy says
There is absolutely some gorgeous wallpaper out there! BUT after the hours I have spent scraping off the ugly wallpaper, I’m not sure I could ever put it up knowing how hard it is to come down! 🙂
View Commentfixitfaerie says
I love grass cloth. I put it in a house we had 25 years ago. But then we moved, and I wallpapered 2 rooms. I would have to think long and hard if I would ever put it up again. I do like the bug stencils that look like you have wallpapered, though.
View Commentbj says
NAY NAY NAY…..I will NEVER, EVER put it in my house again. Right now, I still have 2 wallpaper BORDERS up that are coming down soon and I dread it like the plague…..:))
View CommentJenny Sellars says
Yipes, it’s hard to say. If I found a vintage kitchsy kitchen wallpaper that I loved enough. I would love it!
View CommentBliss says
One time on a day off from school I enlisted 3 of my kids to help peel off wallpaper. I told them who ever got the largest piece peeled off got to pick where I took them for lunch. They got into it.
Bliss
View CommentAnonymous says
I love the look of wallpaper but it needs to stay current or choose a classic like grasscloth or toile. I would used it in small rooms like a powder room, to make an impact. I really like it, though. I think you just need to do what you want to do, after all it is you that lives in your home! Professional installation is the best! Good luck on your choices and God Bless! Ana 🙂
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View CommentAnonymous says
on the wallpaper subject, I had a cleaning business for 22 years, I have to say there was quite a bit of time the grass cloth was very in, and popular with the set that could afford someone to come in and clean every week, it looks very nice , if you have no kids who will invariably run their hands over it ( and adults). it gets dusty, it frays, if it’s something for a short term its great, when it starts to look shabby it looks very dated. only what I have seen in many homes. hope this helps, it sure looks good when its new though! sharri
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