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Decorating disaster - can anyone come up with a wonderful suggestion - PLEASE!!!

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lilibet · 03/11/2006 16:52

A good few years back I stripped the wallpaper off my hall,stairs and landing rag rolled the plaster and painted a border over the rag rolling, wasn't completely happy with it so a few years later had it papered over. It's come time to decorate it again, we have chosen a lovely cream paper and one of our freinds who is interested in doing decorating for a living offered to do it for us for £100.

Dh has jsut got home from work and rung me because the border that I painted on years back is showing very clearly through the paper and it looks bloody awful . There is nothing wrong with the job that she has done, he says it's lovely. He thinks that she didn't ring us as you can't see it in electric light - only in daylight and then it is very, very clear.

He suggests buying a very wide border and putting it over it. I think this would look horrid and incredibly dated - his response "I have never been interested in fashion" aarrrggghhhh!!!

Apart from peeling all the wall paper off and painting the border white and asking her to do it again I have no idea what we can do.

Help????

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YellowFeathers · 03/11/2006 16:55

The only thing i can suggest is to paint your lovely new wallpaper!!! Either that or stick on another layer of it.

southeastastra · 03/11/2006 16:58

how high and wide is the border? you could also attach a picture rail type thing and cover the bottom half of the wall with a contrasting colour. it'll cost whatever you do really. what a pain!

lilibet · 03/11/2006 17:00

waist high and about 8 inches wide

Sat at work not wanting to go home and look at it

Tell me I'm right in not wanting a border on it?

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YellowFeathers · 03/11/2006 17:01

it totally depends on what your paper is like.
is it a colourwash type paper?

HotterOtter · 03/11/2006 17:03

i would not advise border-- all i can think of is a piece of decorative would- dado styled or delft rack?

lilibet · 03/11/2006 17:06

it's a plain colour but quite patterend iyswim

It is designed to be painted or left, so yes we could paint it, but how dark is it going to have to be?

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southeastastra · 03/11/2006 17:07

yes a dado rail like this (but not those colours!) it'd have to be quite thick. what's the room like?

LemonTart · 03/11/2006 17:07

Live with it for a couple of days and then decide if you can put up with it or need to do something.
TBH, your friend should have painted it out before papering - pretty basic error if she is interested in going professional!
Don?t go with the border, you will always regret it and waste more money redecorating sooner.
If def not happy, and are going to change it, try painting a section first with a tester/small pot to see what it looks like. If it doesn?t work (depends on the type of your wallpaper really) then you will need to strip it and redo it. Expensive, a pain and time consuming but possibly the only way you will undo the damage and be happy.
Maybe your friend would offer to do the work for free as it is partly her fault - I guess you would prob have to pay for the new paper. I

southeastastra · 03/11/2006 17:08

if you can paint it, it should only take a couple of coats

RubyRioja · 03/11/2006 17:08

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lilibet · 03/11/2006 17:08

It has a sort of shiny bit on which will disappear if we paint it

And think of the extra work!

F^&k and b%$$"r

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madmarchflare · 03/11/2006 17:09

I would paint it. It wouldnt necessarily have to be dark, just a couple of coats iyswim.

southeastastra · 03/11/2006 17:09

yes ditto ruby!

madmarchflare · 03/11/2006 17:10

Is it on all of the walls?

LemonTart · 03/11/2006 17:10

You could use a thick good quality matt paint (Dulux once or better) and then finish it with a specialist glaze paint to regain the sheen if you wanted. Problem is that if you don?t get a decent painter in who knows what they are doing, you could end up needing loads of coats/ruin the pattern etc and have been better off stripping and starting again (the paper - not you!)
Maybe worth getting a reputable prof. decorator in for advice and a quote?

Gillian76 · 03/11/2006 17:12

Don't get a border. You'll hate it. Paint over the whole lot.

Bummer

Bucketsofburntdinosaurs · 03/11/2006 17:55

Paint a coat where the border is visible, then paint the whole thing in good one-coat, possibly twice.

trixymalixy · 03/11/2006 18:24

Is the paper completely dry yet? You might find that as the paste dries you might not be able to see it anymore

lilibet · 05/11/2006 18:15

Trixy - spot on!!

Yep, soon as it dried it wasn't visible at all!!

oh dear - lot of fuss over nothing

sorry!!

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southeastastra · 05/11/2006 18:20

so pleased for you! haha

trixymalixy · 05/11/2006 22:48

Hurray!!

Glad it worked out OK for you .

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