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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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 Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 12:01:21 PM
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I have 22 year old wallpaper in my kitchen - I actually kind of still like it - it is country and cozy - but it is looking very dated. It is stuck very tight with no peeling or wrinkles. Have any of you ever painted over wallpaper? I hear they have special primer for that now. What do you think?
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 2:48:20 PM
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Personally it sounds like disaster waiting to happen. The moisture from the paint might be just what that wall paper needs to release, and it would be so sad if you spent all that time priming and painting only to start getting wrinkles, warps, and peeling in a little while or even a few years.
But I have never tried it so maybe it would work. Maybe your local hardware/home improvement store would have some tips?
Alee
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 6:39:59 PM
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| I used to have a wallpapering business with another gal named Shari. (Sheri's Wallpapering, obviously) and if someone asked us to do that (we did wall prep and a little painting too) we always refused. It's just like Alee said - it can look like it's the tightest, smoothest finish in the world, but that paint gets on there and the seams could lift, and it could bubble. Also, you can ALWAYS see the seams if you try to paint over it. You could cover it with felt paper (it's a wallpaper underliner to put over bad walls to give you a smooth surface.) But if you do that, make sure you run spackle into the seams of the felt paper, even if it doesn't look like you have any gaps) and sand it. Then prime it before you paint it, because it will suck the paint up like crazy. Another option is to remove the old paper and use one of the new papers that look like a painted wall if you want a plainer look. Some of them look kind of marbely or sponge painted. I can problem help problem solve anything you might run into because we've seen it all. |
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quilt8305
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary
Spokane
WA
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 6:50:35 PM
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Try spraying it with hot water and if it doesn't soften and come off it may be OK. When we took off our wall paper that is how we did it...........sprayed it and scraped off the soft paper.
Mary
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MsCwick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cristine
Farmville
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 7:52:44 PM
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You can get stripper that you mizx with water and spray on. It's really not that hard to remove wallpaper(we do this in our painting business all the time) You should get the scoring tool though it will work much better. What is the wall underneath? Plaster or sheetrock?
Good luck
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2007 : 9:48:14 PM
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I am glad this topic came up..I have wallpaper over plaster in our bedroom that I have been considering painting over...but I will wait to see what Jeannie finds out. Sounds like it may not be as good an idea as I thought.
Jenny in Utah
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Aug 13 2007 : 05:26:22 AM
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Well, seeing the professional opinions here has told me what I thought was the case - the wallpaper has to go when we get ready to paint. DH and I removed wallpaper from our two baths, but they had both been steamed a lot over the years from showers and so it was not too difficult. We used the spray and scrapers on them. There is sheetrock beneath the paper. We primed and painted that same type surface in our bath a couple of years ago, and it has stayed nice. Looks kind of neat actually, very smooth and yet a little rustic.
A friend of mine told me she had painted over her paper, using a special primer for it. I was hoping for the easy way out! :)
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