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Wallpaper

This page contains information on finding wallpaper patterns, installing, or removing wallpaper, and many other questions regarding the use of wallpaper in your home improvement projects.

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We have lived here ten years and the blue cow wallpaper was here when we bought the house. It was past time to say goodbye to the cows. I started peeling the wallpaper

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I did my office walls using this technique (brown paper bag wallpaper) two days ago. What do you suggest as far as using as a stain to give it more depth and also, (the biggest

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How do I remove 5 layers of old wall paper from walls, without using a steamer?

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How do I remove 15 year old wallpaper border? I tried the commercial presoak gel, but it is brutally slow to peel off. I tried scoring the paper with a sharp knife as recommended,

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I have striped the wall paper off 3 of 4 walls, but one entire wall has proven to be stubborn. I can't seem to remove any of the wallpaper (at all) from this one wall. I have tried

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Can I put wallpaper over a Formica counter top?

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I'm working on a small project and would like to find some discontinued Ballard Designs wallpaper. Where can I find leftover wallpaper ends?

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How much Dawn do you put in the spray bottle?

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I would like to know what to use to get old wallpaper paste off a wall so I can paint and put up new wallpaper border. Thanks.

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How do you remove wallpaper border?

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How much water to how much softener do I use for wall paper removal?

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My son has drywall with wall paper on it and whoever put it up got glue on it and it has dried and won't come off. How do we get the glue off the wallpaper? Thanks.

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I tried everything to remove my hard to get off wallpaper, before I discovered this trick - heated vinegar. The wall paper will still have to be pulled off, but the sticky glue

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I attempted to remove a wallpaper border that was applied to drywall that only had a thin coat of paint on it. The drywall was peeling off with the border in small

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How do I strip plastic wallpaper?

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What is the best way to take off very old wallpaper? It is the paper thin kind used back over 30-40 yrs ago. My house is over 165 yrs old and every room has that crappy

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When I decorated my son's bedroom the wallpaper just falls of the walls. Can you help?

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I have fiberglass wallpaper in my kitchen. It has been painted with either oil or water-based paint. How do you remove it?

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Is there an effective homemade wallpaper remover?

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Can you use just water on wallpaper if your putting it on panels?

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After spending three days using fabric softener, scrapers, vinegar and water to get wallpaper paste off of the dry wall, a lightbulb went off in my head. I got my bottle of Krudkutt

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If you are going to put on more paste and wallpaper, do you have to remove all the old wallpaper and paste?

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I removed wallpaper from a raw plaster wall. I want to wash the old glue out of the pores of the plaster before I seal, prime, and paint. What solution is best to wash down

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We live in an old brick house with stress cracks in the original plaster. Is there anyone out there that has used the heavy textured wall paper on the ceilings and side walls?

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What is the best thing to do with walls in a double wide trailer? They have those textured wallpapered walls in them. Do they paint well? Should I cover them with drywall?

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What kind of wallpaper would I use in my bathroom?

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When removing wallpaper use Downy fabric softener and hot water put in spray bottle. Spray walls and watch for it to bubble; then it comes right off. It is the best thing

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I need unpasted wallpaper and can't find any. I'm having a difficult time locating a store or other outlet where I can purchase a roll of wallpaper that is "not" prepasted to

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Looking for a single or double roll of the following wallpaper by Imperial Wallcoverings. Pattern: GC2001 - American Country, Book: New Country Gear/American Country, Page 135

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I have border on my kitchen walls and I need to replace it. I have tried to take it down and I am having a really hard time. I need some help?

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I am looking for one roll of Graham and Brown wallpaper #19473. Does anyone know where I can get one?

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Can I use regular wallpaper paste in place of pre-pasted wallpaper activator? The paper is going in a bathroom. When I put the last paper up I used pre-pasted activator and

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How to remove hanging chad and fuzz from facepaper after the wallpaper was removed?

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I'm trying to remove the wallpaper from our 3 story townhouse. There is a staircase in the middle of house, with very tall walls. Most of the wallpaper is along the stairwell.

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I need advice on wallpapering just one side of an archway. All the how-to's I find online are for papering through the arch. I want to wallpaper my hallway, which ends at an arched

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I need suggestions on how to wallpaper. I have no pattern to match, I just need to line up seams? Thanks.

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I decided to finally re-do the kid's bathroom after finding a great bargain at a yard sale for a bathroom set. The kid's bathroom has really ugly wallpaper and border on the wall

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I am a Pharmacist by profession , BUT a Decorator at heart so 'day job' aside, I started Touch of Re-Touch (using remnants, discards or anything one might think to

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I am looking for "Super Fresco" white wallpaper by Graham and Brown, Pattern No. 15017, Batch C. Thank you.

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Anyone have a recipe for homemade wall sizing that is used on the wall before applying wallpaper? Thanks so much.

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I am looking for a discontinued wallpaper border by Village called Festoonery Border in mulberry. I have already exhausted the suggested websites on other messages. Anyone have any in

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I need one roll of Graham & Brown wallpaper. Super Fresco, Pattern #17479, Batch 013.

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I decided to use contact wall paper behind my stove for a backsplash. It is a small area but I have 3 electrical sockets. I have never put up wallpaper before and would like tips

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Discontinued Carey Lind recess pirate wallpaper mural. I'm looking for this discontinued pirate Ship scene. It consists of several patterns (kd0300b). Please, if anyone

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I'm wanting to paper a small camper. At the moment, it has a vinyl wall covering. I'm planning on removing the wall covering which is similar to contact paper with a hairdryer

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I need 1 or 2 rolls of Eisenhart wallpaper #GT02659. If you have one, how much is it?

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If you are putting up a wallpaper border, don't cut it straight. Cut in and out following the pattern. When it is up, you will not be able to see joints.

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I am trying to remove foil wallpaper that has been covered by what looks like a plastery substance so the previous owners could paint the walls. It must of been a quick fix

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I previously posted a request, for applying glazing over wallpaper, to give the paper a vintage appearance. The answers weren't what I was looking for because I still

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Will eucalyptus oil remove wallpaper glue left by paper, the top layer comes off but underneath is stubborn

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How do you remove paste marks from new wallpaper. I sponged with warm water when it was newly hung but it didn't work.

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I am removing wallpaper in the family room and have noticed that the paper smells, kinda musty smell. It smells stronger in certain areas. There really is no water source

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My son and I would like to make a wallpaper border with a drawing of his. My question is do we need a special paper or would contact paper be OK?

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Wallpapering with Catalog Pages. I would like to wallpaper a bathroom using old catalog pages. . .

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Is fabric softener the best way to remove wallpaper?

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What is the best way to remove wallpaper from the baseboard?

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Removing Contact Paper From Walls. I would like to know how to remove contact paper from walls and stove hoods.

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Removing Wallpaper in a Manufactured Home. I have a manufactured home which came with pre-papered wallboard. I want to remove it and re-paper but I don't know if it is

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I would like to wallpaper my wood paneling with real newsprint. How should I go about this? As inexpensively as possible.

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Just recently I removed a gas fire from my living room wall. But now I am left with a gap in my wallpaper of about (25 in x 21 

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We recently bought a house and are doing a lot of renovations on it. Our living room walls have wallpaper on them. We started using the steamer and mixture of fabric softner

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I broke my promise to myself and stripped wallpaper again. The only reason I did this is for $100,000 profit. My family and I did not have time to wait for professional help.

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If you have a larger wallpaper bubble, bigger than quarter, cut an X into the bubble and carefully peel back each corner from the center of the X. Then apply some wallpaper

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To the person who ran out of wallpaper border, this happened to my daughter. I copied the border onto a good grade of paper after it was on the wall you could not tell

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We get a lot of requests from readers looking for wallpaper that has been discontinued or is just hard to find. Feel free to submit your request for wallpaper in this

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Patricia from Wisconsin: I'm looking for a few rolls of discontinued wallpaper. It is from the Warner "Grandma's Cupboard" book, stock # CUP7181. Thanks for your help.

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I am looking for a wallpaper border to match my shower curtain. I fell in love with the shower curtain at a friends house and finally found it on e-bay. The shower curtain 

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I have wallpaper that is coming loose along the seems on two inside walls. I have bought the glue to put it back, but I am curious as to what caused it to begin with. This 

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Hello all, I am in search for a discontinued wall border that was manufactured by Lambs and Ivy. The name of said border 

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I am looking for wallpaper that was carried by Sherwin Williams about 4-5 years ago. I believe the designer was Julian Davis and the paper had a maroon tulip design - sort of contempo

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I am looking for two rolls of discontinued wallpaper border. It is by Rosedale Wallcoverings. It is Bear & Moose Woodsy Design. It has holly berries, pine needles, and acorns. 

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