Wallpaper in every room? Yikes.
That said, I’m watching a remodeling show as we speak, and they are doing one accent wall in wallpaper. I love to look at mansions on those online real estate web sites. I’m seeing a lot of grass cloth walls in studies or sometimes dining rooms. And those look very pretty.
If I were preparing for a sale, I’d take it all down or you risk just siting and sitting on the market.
Regrettably, you’ve all confirmed what I suspected. Given that the house has some other negatives, I’m thinking paint might be a good investment.
Who cares if it’s coming back or not? It’s your house.
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They are thinking of re-sale in a few years, hence her question.
Meh, still, if you make all of your decisions based on what the future homeowners want, what’s the point of owning a home?
Supposedly new wallpaper is much easier to remove than the old stuff which is better for resale. It really depends on how much OP likes the look.
I would redo my kitchen as I please and do other wild home decor stuff, but I would never use wallpaper in my house and will seriously think about buying one with wallpaper. If OP does not have a strong preference one way or the other, paint is a better choice.
Easy to say, not so easy to live when you are trying to sell a house that just sits and sits on the market because you never gave consideration to resale value.
@mathmom , I was seriously tempted by Bradbury&Bradbury! It would look great in my house. I would not have done a full roomset, but even then, it’s very expensive.
There was awful, much too modern, grass paper-like wall paper in my study when I moved in, which I replaced with Morris Willow Boughs. https://www.william-morris.co.uk/shop/wallpaper/morris-wallpaper-compendium-ii/willow-boughs/?code=DMCW210490 The center hall is Chrysanthemum https://www.william-morris.co.uk/shop/wallpaper/morris-wallpaper-compendium-ii/chrysanthemum/?code=DMCW210414
ETA, when I saw The Sixth Sense, I was somewhat freaked out to find that the front hall of Bruce Willis’s house had the same wallpaper! 
Wallpaper is like draperies – it represents the taste of the previous homeowner, and very few people adopt the identical decor of the previous homeowner when they move in. Don’t put up wallpaper unless you plan on living in your house a very long time.
In general I’m not a fan of wallpaper, but I’ve seen some cute patterns I’d consider for a powder room. I also saw like grass cloth above white wainscoting in a dining room.
@Consolation I like your wallpapers. I think a powder room is a fine place to have fun with wallpaper even for resale. We added a powder room to our old house and had fun with it. I had a pinkish beige marble tile on the floor that were leftovers from a job. We put up toile wallpaper something like this: http://blog.brightsettings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Toile-Blue.jpg I’d hate it in any normal room, but it appealed to my sense of humor.
A house in my development was up for sale for over a year. It was immaculate and very tastefully decorated. The owner said his realtor told him he had to remove the wallpaper in order to sell it. Really? The wallpaper they had was a tone on tone stripe (cream color) in the foyer, and a textured weave look ( an off white color) in the family room. Nothing intrusive or especially personal. But they spent the money to remove it, and it sold almost immediately.
Just saying… Bedbugs and other nasties can thrive behind wallpaper in places where it is loosened away from the wall…
If you’re thinking resale, avoid wallpaper. Just say no.
If you are in your pine box house, have at it. There are some gorgeous wallpapers out there.
If you feel like you have to do it, size the walls first so you don’t want to shoot yourself when you’re taking it down. D17’s bedroom was blood-red when we bought the house (weird) ten years ago, and I couldn’t face priming and painting it, so MIL and I sized the walls and put up cute sky blue wallpaper with fluffy clouds.
Last year D asked me to re-do her room and I took down the wallpaper easily, and washed the sizing off of the wall. I may be calling it the wrong name, but it’s a special tx you put on the wall before you put the wallpaper up that allows it to peel off.
I then primed it (3 coats!) and finally got it painted a pale celadon green that she’d picked.
And yet…my parents’ house had black and white toile wallpaper in the master bedroom, black and white stripes in the dressing room, a small floral in the guest bedroom and chicken wire wallpaper (!) in the kitchen. It sold for really big bucks to someone who also asked to buy the matching or completmentary bedding and Roman shades. Go figure. But my mother was kind of a decorating genius.
Wallpaper or paint not to my liking wouldn’t deter me from an otherwise great house. Pretty cheap fix. Ugly bathrooms and kitchen would unless the price reflected those costly changes.
We got our house for a steal because it was so ugly. Everything was totally cosmetic. But it was hard to see past the pink walls, pink carpets (stained and smelly) and the pink fru-fru curtains. And did i mention the main bathroom was also bubblegum pink, with tile repairs in a color that didn’t quite match? The kitchen was a truly ugyl shade of mustard formica with 1980s cabinets (we bought the house in 1999.)
Wallpaper is definitely one of those things that is individual choice, we have wallpaper in our house in a lot of areas, and like it, and if it did come to selling it we likely would get it taken down and paint the walls (or do it ourselves). The wallpaper was put up mostly professionally, and if it needs to be removed it isn’t that hard (we already have done that on some walls). We plan on staying here for a good long time to come, so it doesn’t matter to us. The thing with wallpaper is it can get kind of ratty over time, so eventually you may want to take it down, and at that point might be wise not to redo it, given that likely will be when you have owned the home a while.
What timing! My husband is right this minute putting on wall paper in our kitchen! We are replacing some dated wallpaper and I wanted to paint it, but he really wanted to re-paper. He wore me down. It’s more of a textured pattern than a print and matches the floors and cabinets well. It’s mostly under the chair rail. The old wallpaper and sizing underneath came off easily. Next up is the nasty border in our bedroom.
My 100 year old GM had 30 to 40 year old wallpaper on every wall in her house. Put the house on the market and had an offer in 2 days. This is not an area with a hot real estate market. The price was right. Settled on the house last week with that buyer.
