Living Room Wallpaper help

hjonesdeco15 · Post by **hjonesdeco15** » Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:37 am

Hello,

I am currently looking for some wallpaper for a feature wall in living room.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas.

Thank you

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:42 am

Yes, don't do it. Wallpapering messes the wall up if you want to go back to plain emulsion. It also gives you patterns that may not match up with existing decor plus it will also make the room darker. It is far better to have white or light colours to keep the room bright. Add colour with a bit of decent art or drapery. You will thank me in a couple of years when the wallpaper looks dated and out of fashion and it will be a pig to get back to emulsion.

DWD

dynamod · Post by **dynamod** » Tue Jul 02, 2024 5:38 am

Hard to say without knowing your chosen colour scheme.

A feature wall is perfectly fine in the right situation, and there are plenty of designs to choose from. Most of these feature papers are paste the wall, which makes installation much easier for the DIY'ers. Just measure where the seams are going to land prior to hanging, to avoid falling half an inch shy of the end. Setting out the paper is important and necessary to make hanging more straightforward.

As colour is such a personal thing, it's kind of up to you to pick what you like.

EDIT - It's good practice to apply lining paper under a feature wallpaper. It promotes adhesion, evens out a bad surface and prevents the colour of the wall surface showing through some papers.