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    Wallpaper

    What's the effing point of it? The apartment I am living in is covered in plain brown wallpaper. I removed it, and behind were perfectly good white plaster walls, with not a crack in sight. Now I have spent the entire day removing glue residue from the walls.

    So what is the point of wallpaper when paint exists?

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    Wallpaper

    Studying wallpaper patterns is the main reason for visiting relatives and occupying somebody else's bedroom. And it works much faster than counting sheep.

    Dunno about plain brown wallpaper though. That sounds like a missed opportunity.

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      #3
      Wallpaper

      When Mrs. S and I were first together, it being our first place and her being a young Home Counties girl, and it being 1985, she was heavily into Laura Ashley.

      Feature paper in the hall, stairs and landing was the legendary Mr. Jones:

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        #4
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        Last year for my 50th birthday she bought me this mug, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mr. Jones:

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          #5
          Wallpaper

          Yeah, plain wallpaper has no point. Worst offense is wallpaper in bathrooms, it tends to come off and degrade due to excessive humidity, there was a lot of it in lower-quality mid to high-end American homes built on the cheap in the 1990s.

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            #6
            Wallpaper

            Yeah, plain wallpaper has no point.

            It held the plaster in place in pre-Gyproc days. Prevented the, inevitable, cracks showing so quickly.

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              #7
              Wallpaper

              The gaff we're buying has got wallpaper.

              it's also got textured walls in the kitchen. That's going to cost some money to have re -done.

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                #8
                Wallpaper

                Yeah, you gotta get rid of it all. Wallpaper is shit.

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                  #9
                  Wallpaper

                  Problem is, it's an old-ish house. So getting rid of wallpaper will mean re-skimming the whole bloody place to make the walls paint-worthy.

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                    #10
                    Wallpaper

                    I feel your pain, hobbes. Our house has got Anaglypta (the bobbly '70s paper) on the ceiling in the hallway. Whenever we have enquired about the feasibility of getting rid of it, the advice is usually along the lines of, don't bother, the whole house will probably collapse in on itself. Admittedly, I'm not generally minded to closely question excuses for avoiding home improvements.

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                      #11
                      Wallpaper

                      That's interesting. Since the Laura Ashley Period, we've eschewed all wallpapers, and when we moved into this place it was everywhere. The house was built in 1940.

                      Over our first Christmas break we stripped Anaglypta textured paper, with years of paint on top, from the large sitting / dining room. Took bloody ages. There underneath, original unpainted 1940 plaster. The wall was papered when the house was new, then covered and covered for the next 68 years.

                      We painted on top of the bare plaster, a few cracks and pits but that's character. Better than using lining paper.

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                        #12
                        Wallpaper

                        Lining paper! What's that all about?

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                          #13
                          Wallpaper

                          It's what you draw graphs on.

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                            #14
                            Wallpaper

                            Sits, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, in the face of the textured wallpaper menace.

                            We had the bathroom done, which involved stripping back to the brickwork, and at one point they were pulling clumps of horse hair out of the walls. It was built in 1907, which I'd have guessed as being the post-horse hair era of construction, had you asked me previously. On that showing the Anaglypta in the hall may be where the previous inhabitants papered over the entrance to the priesthole, possibly while occupied.

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                              #15
                              Wallpaper

                              Here's some beautiful wallpaper:

                              http://www.grahambrown.com/uk/product/31-227/maleficent

                              The other Barbara Hulanicki papers are beautiful, too. She was the designer behind Biba, so is sort of God.

                              http://www.houseofhackney.com/wallpaper/hackney-empire-wallpaper-midnight.html

                              My friend has this on just one wall, it looks stunning.

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                                #16
                                Wallpaper

                                TonTon wrote: Lining paper! What's that all about?
                                It's plain paper which you cover flawed walls with and then paint afterwards.

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                                  #17
                                  Wallpaper

                                  MsD wrote: Here's some beautiful wallpaper:

                                  http://www.grahambrown.com/uk/product/31-227/maleficent

                                  The other Barbara Hulanicki papers are beautiful, too. She was the designer behind Biba, so is sort of God.

                                  http://www.houseofhackney.com/wallpaper/hackney-empire-wallpaper-midnight.html

                                  My friend has this on just one wall, it looks stunning.
                                  Re. the first one, to quote Adrian Mole's dad, "what a piggin' nightmare!"

                                  The second one's lovely but the Hackney Empire Collection at 148 quid a roll!

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                                    #18
                                    Wallpaper

                                    Nocturnal Submission wrote:
                                    Originally posted by TonTon
                                    Lining paper! What's that all about?
                                    It's plain paper which you cover flawed walls with and then paint afterwards.
                                    Yes.

                                    Seems like the worst of both worlds.

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                                      #19
                                      Wallpaper

                                      Why's that? It's a cheap and convenient way of disguising poor plasterwork or repair damage.

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                                        #20
                                        Wallpaper

                                        It's a cheap way of making painted walls look like some awful wallpaper stuff.

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                                          #21
                                          Wallpaper

                                          Well no, actually it's more like a way of making wallpapered walls look like smooth painted plasterwork, if anything.

                                          Is this some politically-based objection or just a personal one because if it's the former you've got enough post-revolution work on your hands with your TV football dictat without taking on the wallpaper enthusiasts.

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                                            #22
                                            Wallpaper

                                            Over here, many rental contracts specify that, when you leave the place you've been renting, it has to have white wallpapered walls.

                                            So shortly before people move out, they cover their walls with the cheapest white woodchip wallpaper they can find. Or, if their walls are already covered in cheap white woodchip wallpaper that's a bit dirty, they paint this wallpaper with the cheapest emulsion they can find.

                                            I've never lived anywhere here that didn't always have white woodchip wallpaper on the walls.

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                                              #23
                                              Wallpaper

                                              A look through any old interior decorating magazine will confirm that the best way to make your house look 'of a period' is to use wallpaper. Hell, it's almost dated the day you roll it on.

                                              Right now, over here, they're on a 'black, textured wallpaper' kick. Almost like those felt Doodle-Art posters. That will be as regrettable in just a few years as the same stuff was back in the '70s.

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                                                #24
                                                Wallpaper

                                                Nocturnal Submission wrote: Well no, actually it's more like a way of making wallpapered walls look like smooth painted plasterwork, if anything.
                                                Ok, well in that case it's a complete failure.

                                                Nocturnal Submission wrote: Is this some politically-based objection or just a personal one because if it's the former you've got enough post-revolution work on your hands with your TV football dictat without taking on the wallpaper enthusiasts.
                                                Don't worry, there's plenty of us.

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                                                  #25
                                                  Wallpaper

                                                  MsD wrote: Here's some beautiful wallpaper:

                                                  http://www.grahambrown.com/uk/product/31-227/maleficent

                                                  The other Barbara Hulanicki papers are beautiful, too. She was the designer behind Biba, so is sort of God.

                                                  http://www.houseofhackney.com/wallpaper/hackney-empire-wallpaper-midnight.html

                                                  My friend has this on just one wall, it looks stunning.
                                                  THE HORROR

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