Does anyone else hate lining paper?

[Zandana123]

Our house has lining paper in every room. In one room it's covered where a dado rail used to be and you can see small ridges/bumps through it.

Under pressure to just paint over it so we can have our lounge back but it's just not right!

Oh really? I was thinking about using it for the first time!

Me. But we've been lucky enough to replaster house 1 (so we just painted directly on the walls) and we bought house 2 not long after it had also been plastered. Nothing nicer that a properly flat smooth wall for paint.

Me! Our entire house is covered with it and I HATE it! We're going to slowly remove it as we renovate and redecorate each room.

Luckily we've only got two rooms that have it (done by previous owners) but it's been a total pain when we repainted as it started bubbling and lifting in places. I'd never use it myself after this experience.

Seems I struck a chord. Stripping it is easy enough (got a mega karcher steamer) but then getting all the paint and paste off after takes ages, then filling all the inevitable gouges. Guess alternative is strip and skim

One of our other rooms didn't have it but did have a narrow strip of patterned paper at picture rail height (white paint above, coloured paint below). Even just removing that and making the surface good took ages and was fiddly. I've never used wallpaper or lining paper and doubt I ever will, luckily I prefer plain walls.