To wallpaper on top of wallpaper?

[ChocolateCoins19]

Basically I've never done this always stripped the walls.
However we now private rent and the bedroom looks like lining papaer painted cream. It's dull and dreary lots of marks.

Normally Id strip it off as always did when we were LA housing.
But the house is old and we've had lots of bad luck with things falling apart.. I can just imagine the plaster falling off with the paper.

Because of the massive window and built in cupboards it won't be much more expensive to paper than paint..plus not need 2 coats or more.

Can this be done?

Should of said. We've been given pretty much free reign on what we want to do as long as not ott and kept neutral

I live in an old house and the decorators had to line the uneven walls before papering. They said it was better to put thr lining on horizontally and the paper on vertically obviously, but due to timing and the uneven shape of rh room didn't. They used a very strong paste. I've had no issues with it and it's been two years.

So I'd say yes it is possible.

Sorry I'd also say it depends on how well down the original paper is stuck and also the paste could soak through the old paper causing it to move. So you need to be careful.

Thanks. Apart for a couple of joins it's stuck well as far as I can see.

It might be fine.. as long as it doesn’t over soak it or have any loose bits already. Obviously that’ll cause problems but we just stripped our stairs and found paper layered on top right the way back to the 60’s.. it’s through the full house so obviously it’s been done a fair few times before lol

I remember my dad doing this as he'd spent ages filling holes and making the walls smooth and he said hacking the paper off would just ruin the surface. Posh lining paper he called it.

Thanks again. The odd little bits that are lifting at joins I will stick down a few weeks prior to make sure they're properly done.
Prob do it in June when ds away with school as can pile all our stuff in his room

I literally had no choice but to do this. Im not sure what the previous tenant had used to stick the paper up, but it was literally taking chunks out of the wall, not to mention each square inch took about 30 mins to remove. In the end we removed the paper from the botch job feature wall, and the layer of paper underneath that, which was painted with some cheap red paint that came off when wet and stained everything pink. You can only really tell the walls are super uneven if you look closely at the walls when the main lights are on.