Painting over textured wallpaper

We love wallpaper. Give us wallpaper on ceilings, or removable wallpaper in rental spaces or dorm rooms. We’ll take it anywhere—it can be a great, bold way to add some personality to your space. But sometimes, you move into a home with existing wallpaper that’s just not your style and you’re not up for a complete wallpaper removal project, so can you just paint over it?

Should you remove wallpaper or just paint over it? Find out the answer to when you should remove wallpaper or paint over it in this article.

Wallpaper rooms are the bane of DIY home improvement. It's difficult and time consuming to remove wallpaper, repair the wall, and then prime and paint. In some instances, it just makes more sense to leave the wallpaper. Read our post on how to paint wallpaper to learn all the best tips and tricks for getting great looking walls, without taking down wallpaper.

We have 3 rooms, kitchen, dining and living room with this wallpaper. It is much darker in colour than photo. More Brick toned. It looks like it has already been painted. Maybe what we call anaglypta which is designed to be painted. Looking at using a soft light grey colour. Can we use a chalk paint to cover?

Are you sick and tired of your old wallpaper? Before you go to the trouble of stripping it off, find out how you can paint over wallpaper with winning results.

After working with Sherwin Williams here is the best way to paint over wallpaper using oil based primer and Emerald Designer Edition Collection latex paint.

Wallpaper is such a great way to add an accent wall to any room, but don't make the same mistake as us. Here's how to put up wallpaper with textured wall!

This DIY smooth wall texture guide gives you a step-by-step instructions on how to smooth textured walls with a skim coat.

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A fun and unique way to add texture and interest to your home is with wall treatments, which are not always budget friendly. In our own home, we have added texture with trim work in many different ways, mostly using MDF to save money. You can see some simple tips on installing trim here! But […]