Messed up my living room walls

[PandoraBox2]

I feel really upset and just fed up. My mental health is not great and I tried to make my living space look better. I bought some lovely wallpaper from dunelm and put up. 2 issues with it the paper at the top looked really bad as I tried cutting with a sharp blade but ripped it, I tried to fix by first trying to paint it with same colour as wallpaper then cut out bits of wallpaper and stick but looked worse plus the seams are showing with 3 parts of the wallpaper panels. I spent an entire weekend doing this! Couple of hours ago I got fed up and ripped it all off the walls. I feel so upset I wasted my e tire weekend in this. I think I know the issue in that some of the land I didn't put on straight so they overlapped which shows the seams.

I've ordered more paper due next week but I am rightly terrified of trying again.

Instead of wasting loads of time and money on cocking it up again maybe admit defeat and get someone who knows what they are doing in? It doesn’t have to be a professional, just someone who has done it before. It doesn’t have to cost anything, swap for something that you are good at. Gardening, baking, piano or language lesson.

Save up and pay someone to do it.

Can you see it as practicing a new skill? Rather than blaming yourself for not getting it perfect?

Dont worry about wasting time, we all have before, that’s life.

@Ameliepoulainandthephotobooth thank you. Funny thing is which which should have mentioned in my op that I wallpapered my bedroom a d it looks lovely wgi and have me the confidence to do living room I think the difference is the bedroom wallpaper is really cheap and feels like paper whereas this one in living room feels like fabric and was really heavy.

Should I attempt it again? I've ordered cheaper paper rather than fabric type.

Please don't beat yourself up, in terms of DIY tasks wallpapering is one of the most difficult and frustrating. It's best if you learn alongside someone who has done it before and do it as a team of 2, only professionals do it solo and even then it's hard. The thicker wallpaper requires tables and proper paste and cutting tools.

I'd save up for a better paper that's easier to hang. I love the paste the wall ones, so much easier than pasting the paper then getting in a big mess.

Don't give up!

I've had very and expensive paper that was easy and some that was a nightmare. Seems to be no rules of what will be easy tbh.

Just pay someone else to do it and save yourself a weekend of pain

I've just had a quote from a reputable decorator. He arrived 10 minutes early too which is a good sign. He's quoted £300 to take off the wallpaper and put new one on. Is this reasonable or a rip off? Its just one wall by where the TV is, he's also painting the ceiling small area where there was previously a leak plus he's going to repair the wall where I stupidly took a lot of paint off when scraping the wallpaper off. Please tell me of this is okay or a rip off.

I think that quote’s okay, less than I have paid for decorating before. You could get another one to reassure yourself.