To wish that woodchip paper painted the colour of Ambrosia Rice would suddenly come back into fashion?

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I mean, it's 'retro chic', right?

Lucky me for inheriting a share of a 1970s house. I'm drenched in sweat, covered in little chips of wood and I already have blisters, and I haven't started the stairwell yet.

My vote. YABU. imagine if it were .... ARTEX!

It's got bloody Artex as well. You're not helping!

Surely these lovely swirly ceilings could be classed as "original vintage features"?

I feel your pain. I stripped a house covered in wood chip from top to bottom and was still finding bits of it years later.

I could send you my 9yo? We moved into a house with woodchip and he managed to strip his entire room, barehanded, in the space of one night.

I could send you my 9yo? We moved into a house with woodchip and he managed to strip his entire room, barehanded, in the space of one night.

Could I adopt him? (How is he on ladders?)

Op took us weeks at the stuff, hideous every single wall including under stairs was covered.... And it doesn't come off easily...

I’d like to join the waiting list for Bearfrills Jnr please. Tried getting wood chip off one of the many, many walls and the bloody thing just disintegrated. Looks like my seventies house is made of woodchip and cardboard. And nicotine stains which I’m still cleaning off nearly 7 years in.
When I say many, many walls, I don’t live in a mansion, just a seventies 3 bedroom house which Is mainly being held by up the woodchip on every frigging wall. Luckily I’ve got neck problems which is convenient for not looking up at the aertex ceilings. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.

You've reminded me of a friend's house. It looked like a trainee had been asked to demonstrate his artex skills with a different pattern on every ceiling.

Ambrosia creamed rice would have been a dream - could have pretended it was a Farrow and Ball warm mood one. Not so the apricot mousse colour that our entire houses had been painted in over the wood chip. The previous owners had thoughtfully left the matching frilly nylon blinds, accented with bright green ribbons . It was like being inside one of those knitted crinoline dolls designed to cover spare loo rolls in the 60s. Oh, and polystyrene tiles on the ceiling - coveting up a perfectly sound surface to our great surprise

Also waiting for orange pine furniture to make a comeback
not forgetting avocado basins

We used a wallpaper perforator and a steam stripper from the hire shop, which speeded things up a bit. I really hated woodchip paper

www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-245130-Wallpaper-Perforator-480mm/dp/B0015NRK36?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Little tip for you with regards the woodchip, speaking as one who knows-twice!

Don't wet it or score it, just rip the top layer off, leaving the backing on the wall. It usually comes off in very satisfying strips if it's dry.

Get a spray bottle, fill it with warm water, bit of washing up liquid and..... the magic ingredient, eucalyptus oil. You don't need much, 2 capfuls ?

Spray the backing until it's wet, walk away for a few minutes, come back and run a wallpaper scraper along the wall, comes off like a dream. Trust me, it works.

Do NOT, as advised on t'internet, soak the paper with vinegar, doesn't work, house smells like a chip shop. Ditto fabric conditioner, smells better but still doesn't work.
You're welcome!

Never use fabric conditioner. DS went to help a family member strip a ceiling. That night he was fighting for breath, it was frightening to see. There is something in conditioner you must never inhale.

I love my swirly ceiling 😂😂😂

What's wrong with woodchip? I really like it.

not forgetting avocado basins

no, no, the bathroom stuff is pale blue... with the obvious choice, CHOCOLATE BROWN tiles from floor to ceiling! My parents never changed it for 30 years - it was like it when they moved in, "but they're perfectly good tiles." They still are, dammit. I hope this white tile paint works.

Where would I get eucalyptus oil? A health food shop?

Oh, I can relate! We rented out a house (for a pittance - we're broke) decorated in shades of peach and, as you so poetically put it, ambrosia rice. One room rejoices in no fewer than five different patterns of anaglypta wallpaper, patched in at will.

However, I can definitely up the bids from @bearfrills's progeny. My DD became a pro with the (unauthorised) task from 13 months.

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I used an electric sander to get rid of woodchip in my hall. It looked like an indoor sandstorm for around a week with bits of that stuff swirling over and over, how I didn't end up with emphysema, I'll never know.

dd likes getting the top layer off, then wet the under layer with lots and lots of water... comes of really easily. even more so if your plaster is not shot and you can use a steamer.

it was on living room walls and ceiling, ditto small bedroom, it is still half on the hall and large bedroom.

bathroom was some sort of anaglypta, kitchen ceiling also. two rooms have been stripped, filled sanded, filled, sanded, lining papered and painted. it is taking so long.

Whoever invented wood chip wallpaper needs to be shot or covered up in wood chip wallpaper.
Why oh why! We had it in our last house on the blooming kitchen & hallway ceilings. We just painted over it.

We've got it in 3 bedrooms still. I've decided we're moving and the next person can deal with that and the artex swirly ceilings. It's all clean and tidy so.

The plaster underneath is fine. Unfortunately it's about 25% rawlplugs - there are literally hundreds of them.

My DH wants to use woodchip in our hallway ! Its not happening