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painting over embossed wallpaper
My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed
wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! As a short term fix, i'd like to paint over it, something neutral, but I suspect the texture will show through, are there any modern paints that will give me a fighting chance of covering it up? I don't really want it to be like adrian mole's wallpaper! I know ultimately, It wants stripping back, lining & then painting. But even if I can paint it and i'm left with a bit of texture / flower outlines, it has to be better than all the pink & purple flowers. advice appreciated Ta DD |
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"dirt dibbler" wrote in message ps.com... My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! As a short term fix, i'd like to paint over it, something neutral, but I suspect the texture will show through, are there any modern paints that will give me a fighting chance of covering it up? I don't really want it to be like adrian mole's wallpaper! I know ultimately, It wants stripping back, lining & then painting. But even if I can paint it and i'm left with a bit of texture / flower outlines, it has to be better than all the pink & purple flowers. advice appreciated Ta DD When we moved in here in 1964 the sitting room had a textured paper. We painted it. The texture showed through but was interesting. Since then it's been painted many times, the texture is still evident but not unpleasant, in fact in some ways it's better than flat walls. I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... Mary |
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On 23/07/2007 09:53, Mary Fisher wrote:
I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... 13 year old Noddy wallpaper semi-obliterated with black paint. |
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message ... On 23/07/2007 09:53, Mary Fisher wrote: I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... 13 year old Noddy wallpaper semi-obliterated with black paint. Oh. But the OP's wallpaper wasn't right for that to start with ... Mary |
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"dirt dibbler" wrote in message ps.com... My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! Sheesh! |
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On 23 Jul, 11:13, "George" wrote:
"dirt dibbler" wrote in message ps.com... My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! Sheesh! ? |
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On 23 Jul, 10:03, Andy Burns wrote:
On 23/07/2007 09:53, Mary Fisher wrote: I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... 13 year old Noddy wallpaper semi-obliterated with black paint. finished off with black felt pens to try to cover the bells on his hat, if i remember correctly! |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "dirt dibbler" wrote in message ps.com... My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! As a short term fix, i'd like to paint over it, something neutral, but I suspect the texture will show through, are there any modern paints that will give me a fighting chance of covering it up? I don't really want it to be like adrian mole's wallpaper! I know ultimately, It wants stripping back, lining & then painting. But even if I can paint it and i'm left with a bit of texture / flower outlines, it has to be better than all the pink & purple flowers. advice appreciated Ta DD When we moved in here in 1964 the sitting room had a textured paper. We painted it. The texture showed through but was interesting. Since then it's been painted many times, the texture is still evident but not unpleasant, in fact in some ways it's better than flat walls. I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... When Sue Townsend replaces Shakespeare for the English Literature exams you will understand. Adam |
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"ARWadsworth" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "dirt dibbler" wrote in message ps.com... My hall, stairs and landing walls are papered with a lightly embossed wallpaper, flowers & a few shiny bits, excellent quality & papering, but not quite suited to a bachelor pad! As a short term fix, i'd like to paint over it, something neutral, but I suspect the texture will show through, are there any modern paints that will give me a fighting chance of covering it up? I don't really want it to be like adrian mole's wallpaper! I know ultimately, It wants stripping back, lining & then painting. But even if I can paint it and i'm left with a bit of texture / flower outlines, it has to be better than all the pink & purple flowers. advice appreciated Ta DD When we moved in here in 1964 the sitting room had a textured paper. We painted it. The texture showed through but was interesting. Since then it's been painted many times, the texture is still evident but not unpleasant, in fact in some ways it's better than flat walls. I don't understand about Adrian Mole's wallpaper ... When Sue Townsend replaces Shakespeare for the English Literature exams you will understand. I heard broadcasts of some of Adrian Mole when the first book was published, then the second ... but they weren't memorable - especially wallpaper details. Mary Adam |
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