To hate textured wallpaper

[SWFARMER]

We've just bought a house and it's bloody everywhere. On all walls and ceilings!! Bar the bathroom. Aibu to bloody despise it?!

We started stripping the living room yesterday and it's bloody hard work with textured.

Ironic thing is that the plastering underneath is okay but not amazing so couldn't paint straight over. I'm now thinking of getting it all wallpapered (not textured!) I always said I'd paint as much as I couldn't and have a wallpapered feature wall.

When we moved into our first house we decorated the lounge/diner with anaglypta paper and the dining end had a feature wall of hessian. Artex in the alcove completed the look! (It was the mid 70s). Regretted it a few years later when we wanted to redecorate. It took a week to get the paper and hessian off. By then we had also artexed the entire hallway. Had the whole lot skimmed, which was much nicer.

We found 'roy was here 1980' behind the wallpaper today. Pretty cool seeing as though I was born in 94 ha

My fucking bastard father put this hideous shell-pattern textured wallpaper all over the house in the mid-80's. When my mum decided she could take no more, she took an orbital sander to it. When the doorway swung open and she emerged from the resulting dust storm, it looked like the Sahara. The solution? Burn it and start again.

Wizard you win. Sounds like a 'Changing rooms' disaster; do you LLlB was let loose in there?

Roy was here 1980

Our textured wall paper is nice, it is not everywhere, but it will put me off decorating for a long, long time. Luckily the house was done really nicely before we moved in. I have left a stair gate up long after it is necessary because it has taken of the wallpaper.

Fucking stipple on ceilings is a crime against decorating in the other hand.

Did you Bring bet that was a treat to come off

My parents did our old house in woodchip for every room except living room and kitchen. Whe they wanted to get rid of the stuff on the hall, stair and landing (massive space) the paper plus 4 coats of paint was a nightmare to remove even with a steamer. Took weeks and before my dad re-papered with something better he wrote a note on the wall to never, ever put woodchip up again. I remember as a kid making pictures out of the patterns like you do with clouds.