Decor: wallpaper or paint

Definitely paint, much less hassle to change!

Depends on the house and the wall. Currently we have a very old house, lots of beams and rough walls. wallpaper isn't an option.

Different house the answer could be different.

Wallpaper for choice

But, like MOnica, we have a very old house with no straight lines or flat walls in it. I wallpapered one room when we first moved in. Result was a bit 'odd'

I always paint, simply because it is so easy to change when I want to. I can paint myself but would have to call someone in to paper. There are many very lovely papers now but they can so easily look overdone in smallish rooms like mine. Maybe one day I'll take the plunge

Always paint. It can be changed easily, is washable and the furnishings can be any pathing you like.

It depends . We have a feature wall with wallpaper and all the rest are painted.

My GS runs his own decorating business and he just used wallpaper in his own living room when I commented as I had him paint all the walls in my house he said a lot of his customers are asking for wallpaper lately so it seems it’s coming back into fashion. Not for me though.

I prefer plain walls, so paint.

Paint I recently did the living room it’s good exercise and easier than wallpaper. When I get fed up with the colour change it and the soft furnishings.

Paint.
I can't bear feature walls, having had enough of them in the seventies, usually orange or olive green, but I like the unexpected piece of wallpaper, in a small alcove or behind shelves.
But not in my house: too small.

It has to be wallpaper for me, the bigger and bolder the better. I've just done a room in Harlequin wallpaper. It looks like a rainforest, and quite a statement.

Sorry eazybee I've got some feature walls as well. I like some interest in the room. So for me its a mixture of paint and paper.

I have always loved William Morris designs, and might buy some wallpaper for my new bungalow. Still deciding on a style - might go Bloomsbury instead.

Definitely paint. Then nice things of your own can be hung on walls, as liked, such as family photos of chosen artworks.

or chosen artworks!

Paint for us every time. Not had wallpaper for over 35 years. Our family have all gone for wallpaper though, guess Mum and Dad are behind the times, again .

We have wallpaper on one wall to cover uneven plaster where a fireplace was removed. I hang it myself so much cheaper than a plasterer.
We are moving soon and hopefully it will just need a coat or two of paint.

Paint.

Have never had wallpaper all our married life, nearly 49 years.

Can remember some wallpaper on my bedroom wall when I was little. It had Japanese figures on it, I loved it.

I have wallpaper in one bedroom and it was also in the kitchen a couple of times - otherwise it's paint everywhere.
I've always been the one to do the decorating and I can't see me doing any more wallpapering, however trendy it is.
That's a nice idea about small, unexpected pieces of wallpaper, tho, eazybee.

I spent 19 years living in houses we were only allowed to paint - often we weren’t even allowed to choose the colours! I said when we had a house of our own, I would have wallpaper. But the walls in a 1930’s semi were a challenge, so we fell back on textured vinyl, which didn’t show defects, but it had to be painted. In this house, the walls are good enough to paper but we decided that paint was less trouble. There are some fabulous wallpapers available now, though, and I am often tempted!

Paint for me. Chalk white. Interest added by hanging prints or patterned curtains etc. An easier life altogether.
#lazygran

Hello there,
Of course, you should paint your house, do not spoil your wall with wallpapers. I have used cartooned wallpaper for my kid's room. Now feeling regretted. Because my kid's cartoon mind had changed!!! They all were grown up, and now they need standard colors. Once you use wallpapers, it is tough to remove and re-paint them. It's a time-consuming process and money wastage. You can use LED light hanging for improving the beauty.

Hope you got it!!!
Thank you

By the way, John Lewis send out big free samples of the wallpapers they stock. You can choose up to 6 designs.

Paint every time for me. Big canvases on the walls for colour. Cushions, furniture, plants. I feel that wallpaper can make a room too busy.