To absolutely detest wallpaper, in fact it should be fecking banned

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I can't bloody stand the stuff, who on earth came up with the idea ? Who ?

Who saw a perfectly good house with nice walls and thought to themselves, I know what i'll do, i'll giftwrap it ?

A twat, that's who.

Because the problem with wallpaper is it has to be scaraped off to be replaced, EVERY LITTLE PIECE

In stupidly high places.

I mean what is the sodding point in hanging wallpaper 30foot in the air ? PAINT the fucking thing you fools, it's easier.

I hope you appreciate this thread btw, it was posted with blistered hands from a wilted cheese who has spent the day scraping walls in preperation for new blissful, cglorious plaster. Which will then be painted with relish.

If i'm not around tomorrow it's because I snapped my neck trying to get the wallpaper off the fucking ceiling in above the landing with a huge drop that some sadistic twat hung 20 or so years ago

Ah yes, Laura Ashley. Once took a trip to Oxford as that was the nearest place that sold the decorating stuff. Was hellish to put on, the pattern just wouldn't match however hard we tried.

My dad once put up fish-patterned wallpaper in the bathroom-all the fish were swimming upside down.

we also had some great kitchen wallpaper- kettles and cups- and for whatever reason, ducks in the bedroom.

Can't stand wallpaper, partly from hideous wallpaper as a kid but mostly from scraping off shedloads of the stuff from my house.

Highlight was the room that had two layers of oil paint on top of wallpaper on top of woodchip wallpaper on top of tiles on top of painted wallpaper on top of wallpaper on top of paint on top of original Victorian tiles, which funnily enough were too bashed about to keep by the time I got there.

Main bedroom is about to get it Artex-papered ceiling ripped off. I can't wait!

Got my new NEXT directory today and there is some truly awful wallpaper in it...there is one with birdcages on....I mean, wtf????

Fine if you live in a stately home I guess but not so good in a 3 bed semi

One bedroom I had featured 5 different patterns on the walls. Orange and yellow striped wallpaper up to low dado height, border, different yellow swirly pattern up to high dado line where there was a different border and above that it was an orange patterned paper strip up to the ceiling. Mind blowing.

oh, i love proper wallpaper like this
but agree that only freaks paper ceilings

My mum once covered the bottom half of our living room walls with hideous stripy wallpaper, topped it with a border and then painted the top part of the walls orange. I think she had a blue version of this in the hall too. It was horrible and we (as teenagers) told her so at the time but she insisted that it was lovely.

Then the same wallpaper and border combo appeared on pat butcher's house in eastenders and my mum had to accept that it had been chosen purely because it was hideous and tasteless.

I tried to find an image but google doesn't seem to have many of the inside of pat butcher's house sometime in the 1990s.

The evil fucking swines, the highhest part of the house is about 5 sheets deep.

Grrr, twisted, house wrapping fools

This house was like a house from "Brookside" circa 1989 when we moved in

There was a student house when I was at college that had artex so thick on every wall the light switches were actually embedded in it.

On every wall, in a tiny terraced house.

Each wall was a different pattern. The landlord was a painter and decorator. I saw his van recently and he still has a sign on the side saying ARTEXING A SPECIALITY.

Who on earth PAPERS the ceilings

When dp and I moved into our first house, the main bedroom was painted purple by the previous owners. Oh the memories of trying to scrap off a plastic-like purple paint over layers of badly hung paper... despite our best efforts it took nearly TWO weeks, because no matter what we used, the paper came off in teeny bits. And then there was the woodchip... The stuff in DD's room is probably still there, I could only face painting it.

But then the owners had been oones for DIY.. Like the live wire cut off half way down a wall and plastered in! or the "panelling" in the kitchen from off-cuts of formica (the chap worked in a place using/making this stuff), behind which was a load of wiring just stuffed in the gap and not properly wired into the walls. Justa waiting for us to make one move and electricute us.

But, best of all, is the fact that the chap had extended the kitchen and made a bathroom out of the old outside toilet and coalhouse. Where a load bearing wall had been removed, the chap had simply taken two small bits of wood, badly nailed together, and used that to hold up the ceiling How the celing hadn't collapsed we don't know, and even worse, we had put our furniture in that bedroom in storage.

My dad, a builder, came in, took one look and shot off to get some jacks to hold up the celing. His first job for us was to replace the bits of wood with proper load bearing support.

Oh we don't just have normal papered ceilings, we have foam, crazy paving shite above our heads in every single room

My dad put up polystyrene crazing paving tiles in my bedroom. I loved them and used the left over ones as pinboards. My old house would be an ideal venue for a public service film on fire prevention.

Forgot to say he also put up slotted pine panels on the walls and ceiling in the hallway. It looked like a sauna.

It never felt like a sauna because my parents were stingy with the heating.

We once looked at a house that was covered in that pine cladding stuff all over the hall including the ceiling, the living room, bedrooms the whole lot.

It was like that film buried, the one where the blokes looked in a house with a series of wooden tunnels that get smaller and smaller, locking behind until the last one becomes his coffin.

For some strange reason it also had a kitchen built into one of the bedrooms