When was the last time you heard someone say, “Oh my gosh honey THIS HOUSE HAS WALLPAPER…I LOVE IT!” Ummm…NEVER.

Remember when I talked about neutralizing coloring in one of my previous post?  Well along with that is getting rid of tacky wallpaper.  And I’ve found that in order to determine if wallpaper is tacky or not, you need to ask an honest friend.  Preferably a hip one that will give it to you straight.

In our house we had three rooms with wallpaper.  We had our master bedroom which we had taken care of the wallpaper issue before I had the baby, the master bath and the hall bath.  The master bath and the hall bath weren’t something we wanted to tackle and at first thought we’d just leave alone.  But the more we looked at it and the more we considered we opted to change it.  See when we first bought the house the wallpaper in the master bath struck us as horrid.  Nothing changed other than we got used to it.  And in a market where people can’t see past horrid, we opted to get rid of it.  In the hall bath, the wallpaper was actually cute, but it had started to separate and peel.

We found that the person that painted also removed wallpaper!  So for less than $500 we had the wallpaper removed and the rooms painted.  A true bargain for us we decided.  Some people find wallpaper removal soothing…I find it wildly infuriating.  You decide which you are and if you find that you’re in the infuriated camp with me post on Facebook and see if any of your friends are the insane ones that think its soothing.  Or maybe they know someone.

Some of the other special touches that we removed was stenciling and odd curtains.  The person that owned the home before us was apparently the STENCIL QUEEN!  So we took some time to paint over and rid the house of any of the stencils.  Though they were once the rage “back in the day” you probably should get rid of anything that can use the statement “back in the day”.