My Husband hates preparing for and hanging fresh wallpaper, so when we bought our Newbuild house around 20years ago he made a rule that decorating walls in rooms should be Emulsion paint only. I did bend the rules a little by having a Dado rail fitted on the hall stairs and landing, and always painted the lower half with a darker shade and the upper with a lighter shade of the same colour bought from the colouriser ranges within the large DIY stores. I then used the darker shade to stencil a design just above the Dado rail. This fashion lasted for a few years before the Boarder print rolls with the sticky backs came into vogue. Today we keep the twotone Dado rail.idea, but long gone are the Boarders and stencils we once had before.
The rest.of the house is decorated in fairly neutral shades of Creams and Beiges, and my new Kitchen is a shade called Cashmere, with accents of Reds, Burgundy, Greys and Creams in the blinds and small appliances jst to give a little fairly easily changeable colour. We add colour to. our bedrooms by using fairly bold pattern bedding and Matching curtains, a different design for each room, and to our lounge by using feature coloured cushions and rugs, again easily changeable without much fuss of disruption. The rest of our toilets and bathrooms are tiled, and again we add a splash of colour by using co-ordinating Towels and bathmats. When we get tired of a room, we just send the old rugs and cushions ect to the charity shop, and buy some new again, a total change of scene achieved in less than a day!