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

[FlamedToACrisp]

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.

We have it in a couple places our house and i hate it .It was ambrosia colour , i painted over it still hate it .DH said to leave it alone as it nightmare get off but now i seen some fab tips on here so ...

We had this in a few rooms. Either board over and replaster or pull down ceiling, reboard and replaster

Binky my great grandparents had aqua baby duck/chick tiles in the bathroom whilst another relative has yellow ones in the kitchen.
I find the yellow ones cute.

Woodchip gives a lovely, peaceful old fashioned vibe.

FlamedToACrisp I'm not sure where you'd get it in the UK, my friend brings it over from Australia, where you can get massive bottles quite cheaply. Have a look on Ebay or Amazon, marvelous stuff it is. It gets mascara off of carpets, oil stains out of clothes, and if you wash the floor with it it smells lovely!

I also used a steamer on the woodchip, managed to short out the lights by getting water/ steam in the light fitting, and then, not learning my lesson, did the same with the plug socket! And it took hours to do one wall.

I once rented a house with wood chip walls, artex ceilings and walls (wtf??!!), a lovely green bathroom suite with a grey carpet that had more diseases than the local GUM clinic saw in 12 years, what I assume was originally ‘beige’ kitchen units that were now brown from grime, those lovely pine slatted doors on the built in wardrobes and airing cupboard, and what looked like fantastic ‘patio’ coloured tiles all over the fire place. God I hated that house......

Fuck NO! We bought a doer upper with this shite in the master bedroom. It took us almost two months to finish stripping it off and painting it. Gave me an absolute headache, I was also heavily pregnant at the time which did not help!

I could curse whichever dickhead invented it .

Got to agree that the person who invented the god awful stuff needs stringing up! We live in an old farm cottage and a few rooms still have wood chip, the living room is completely wood chip but because we rent I’m not starting taking it off so painted it and it doesn’t look bad to be fair

My first lakeland terrier puppy stripped the woodchip from the bottom to the top of the stairs. .

Unfortunately, he was too short to reach above knee height, so I had to do the rest. (Actually, I didn't find it too bad - I used a steam stripper, and it came off quite easily)

Omg. You've just brought back the horrid memories of redecorating our first home. Aged 23 & didn't know any different at the time. Late 80's so wood chip all the rage. Bits of magnolia woodchips flying everywhere as I painted the newly wallpaper walls. Why weren't we told...???

Bloody glad Colouroll went bust.

I’ve found my thread. We have wood chip, artery and polystyrene tiles and no money to rectify it at the moment. I’m hoping it’ll all be back in fashion soon 🤞🏻

I admit to just painting mine in the hall, it's so high I would need scaffolding and I was quoted £2.5k to have it done

Eucalyptus oil is the most toxic oil available. A teaspoon of it can kill. Be very careful how you use it.

I say, embrace the woodchip. My walls look like rice pudding. I think it’s comforting. I’ve given up trying to remove it. You can got for a quicker option of getting all the walls skimmed, which sorts out the problem.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

Eucalyptus oil is the most toxic oil available. A teaspoon of it can kill. thanks - I won't be buying any of THAT, then! Although... (makes a list of names)

ha! YANBU at all. Woodchip wallpaper is the devils work.

My entire house is covered in it. Literally every room except (thankfully!) the bathroom.

we have so far done 3 rooms. Its been HELL.