Decor: wallpaper or paint

Same as LauraNorder, plain walls - so many beautiful shades of paint to choose from - then add colours with soft furnishings, artwork, rugs etc.

Wallpaper can look lovely, and I admire it in my friends house, but for my home, it's paint every time. It's so much easier, all that paper stripping when it's time to redecorate us definitely not for me! ?

I had such fun choosing rather cooky wallpaper for odd areas of our new (to us) hour 2 years ago for the ensuite, downstairs loo and stairwell.
Didn't want it in any of the bedrooms living room or kitchen. Loved choosing it and now living with it.

Half and half here.....literally ?.

Rooms we spend most time in are painted in neutral colours, I agree that pictures don't sit well on patterned walls.

But I do love wallpaper, especially William Morris, and have a WM paper in one of our bathrooms and one bedroom......on the upper part of the walls, the lower bit being wood panelling.

I love Victorian houses, sadly mine isn't but I have aimed for a sort of Victorian shabby chic style. Means I can get away with being untidy.

Always paint. Although I could possibly be tempted by hand printed wall paper.

Talking of wallpaper, did anyone watch Interior Design Masters on Tuesday? Each contestant had to design a hotel room to be used as a bridal suite. The contestant who was voted off used a multitude of different wallpapers. Some walls were in colourful flowered papers and others in large black and white chevrons. It was way over the top and very extreme. It gave me an instant migraine! Great programme though - and good for design inspiration. I think that wallpaper is coming back into fashion.

Lillie - maybe that’s why I needed 40 plus paper samples for my cloakroom but only five paint samples!
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I've flicked through a few pages of posh hotels and suites. It seems to me they nearly all have striking wallpapers prints. Sometimes wallpaper identitifies who we are more clearly than paint?

Our ‘rustic’ kitchen walls are half tongue-and-groove panelled and we like it - it’s very durable and easily wiped behind the bin where there are usually splashes.

We have a lot of wood panelling but otherwise just paint. I don’t like wallpaper, it looks kind of old fashioned but very few here use it and I don’t know if you can even get it.

Yes, I know this is 'wallpaper or paint' - but I'm very happy with my latest project - a panelled wall.

I didn't want to pay a fortune to have that wall replastered. I didn't want the mess either.

It was very easy to do and looks great!

We also like a feature wall but just in the sitting room. Paint everywhere else.
Feature walls were fashionable in the 70’s but I think they are back! (‘though I’m no fashion guru).
We’re just changing a feature wall which is mainly ochre yellow , to turquoise and it gives me an opportunity to change a window blind and cushions to pick out the turquoise too.

Prefer painted walls - more versatile than patterned wallpaper and pictures/framed photos look better on a plain wall I always think. I do like a feature wall, but haven’t got one. It would take me an age to choose the right paper as i’m quite indecisive! Our walls are also a light colour - mostly Farrow & Ball.

I have painted, plain wall papers room. I would prefer smooth, re plastered wall but the cost and mess would be enormous. I dislike feature walks and pattened paper.

We have wallpaper which we paint and this brings texture to the walls. Easy to repaint as any time but we usually go for shades of white and bring colour with other bits in the room. The textured wallpaper makes all the difference to the final finish and comes in many delicate or heavier patterns all ready to add colour.

Wallpaper ,not big patterns though ,quite plain with texture ,I like colour so one bedroom has a deep purple wall and three white walls ,another has a copper wall and three cream.We had all our wall re plastered a few years ago and the plasterer was surprised when he visited us at Christmas that they were all wallpapered

Thanks all,lol yes deff used masking tape a special low tack one,also learned how toget straight neat lines on texured paper,as only the window wall was re plastered as otheres had textured paper on and when removing it brought the plaster off.Its a very old council house. Just nearly put my lights out putting the bedding on the bunk beds?. Elder gs seen it,younger one hasnt it was going tobe green n grey(xbox colours) glad we changed it or would have felt like I was at work in the supermarket!

That’s a super job Bikergran patience required I’m sure we’ll done I’m sure they’ll be thrilled with its.
My GS a decorator has just been on a course to learn spray painting in the home his results look brilliant and ver time saving he now has to save up for the machine lol.

I have one roll of super expensive paper in my little downstairs loo. It's beautiful and everyone who has seen it has commented on it. I had maybe 40 samples before I chose it and it is perfect.

I wanted to wallpaper the chimney breas in my kitchen but the paper I liked was £300 a roll...
Needless to say, I have painted instead.

What ever your taste really, but I do love to see period houses reflecting the age in which they are built.

So ours was built in the 30s and I have one room in particular that tips it’s decor to what I would describe as glam Hollywood of the 30s, so long swishy white curtains, very pale apricot walls, parquet flooring with an Art Deco design around the edge, off white rug and white and black fireplace that is Art Deco in design but not tiles. Ornaments that I found in charity shops and auctions etc of the period.
The rest of the house is also done with the 30s in mind but not so glam, very homely. Our snug is wallpapered, with matching curtains in greenish duck egg blue. The sofa and chairs are stripped and plain with colours that pick out the rug and wallpaper. The rug is American but an Axminster design.
Hall and stairs has a dado rail beneath which is a Morris wallpaper, bit early really but I loved the design and the stair carpet matches the colour.
The dining room is papered with a heavy figured wallpaper which we paint according to our taste at the time, at the moment it is called Matchstick ? a sort of off white beige sort of colour, matching the dining chairs. The rug is a red Turkish wool design so very busy, everything else is plain with red picked out in cushions in a rocker and chair.

Most of my friends and neighbours have much more modern taste, and their homes are often with very clean lines and everywhere pale and pristine. I do like it and could happily live with that, but ours just sort of evolved into what it is.

I love orange. I always wanted an orange kitchen. The closest I got was pink!

Wallpaper for me. Can't cope with feature walls particularly bold ones. Only one room left with emulsion. Only ever have high gloss white woodwork everywhere. Boring? Not for me. Love it. My walls tend to be 'gentle'. I bold up colour-wise with accessories which can be changed more easily.

Bikergran so good to see your name and what a fantastic job you have done thats one very lucky little boy .

Bikergran, that is fantastic. Well done.

Bikergran that’s amazing. It must have taken a lot of time and masking tape, or did you paint free hand. Have they seen it yet?