Oh, don't worry - what makes you think I *ever* do? :-)
Ok, the fabric can work. It's a decent idea.
Hmmyeah... Well, OK, maybe. We just didn't happen to go with it. (At least this time around! :-)
Putting up wallpaper is a fucking disaster waiting to happen. It aint reasonable stuff to work with.
Well, no -- but neither am I, so it's a fair match-up! (One that I won, this time! :-)
Have somebody else do it.
Bah!
What fucking kind of man can't put up his own *wallpaper*?!?
If it works, enjoy it. If it is a clusterfuck, it's a SEP.
What's a "SEP"?
Then scrape the wall and paint it.
Yep, we considered going that way to begin with. "Pro", it's easier; "Con", it's messier; on the whole, it's about as much work.
Yes, those thicker (plasticky-feeling) modern wallpapers can be a bit clumsy to handle; the thinner, old-fashioned, plain-papery ones are a little easier in that respect. Easier to rip, too, though. One thing I noticed was, the instructions in the package say to put both kinds up edge-to-edge nowadays; I knew that's how to do it with the thick plasticky ones, but when I was a kid, the thin papery ones went on with a little bit of overlap. Felt weird, but seemed to work...
Here's a real killer of a tip to make the work of putting up wallpaper easier, BTW: Do one of those "fancy-looking" decors with different papers on the upper and lower halves of the wall and one of those horizontal border thingies as a divider. Yes, you get twice as many pieces of paper to handle, but each half-length piece is MUCH MORE THAN TWICE as easy to handle as a full-length one.
Looks pretty nice, too. (We did that in the bedroom. :-)
Oh, yeah, one more advantage to it: You can do the work all by yourself (which IMO is well-nigh impossible with full-length pieces) -- no need to intimidate your wife by barking orders at her on how to position the lower half. (Come to think of it, this may be the *main* advantage of doing it that way.)
A couple more tips, while I'm at it:
- Cut up *all* the pieces you're going to need *before* you start spreading glue on the first one (so you won't have to put them face-down on your gluey work-table too much).
- Cut them long enough to be able to adjust them height-wise to fit the pattern. (I cut it *almost* a hair too fine in this respect.)
- Put tape along your ceiling and foot-board, so the extra bits you cut off later (no use trying to cut before the glue's dried; wet paper can't be cut, it only gets ugly rips) won't get glued on there and have to be laboriously scraped off. (Not that this occurred to me until *after* we were finished...)
Do all that, and I really don't think that it should be much of a problem.
I've been wonderfully married for just over 18 years, and the only major fights we've had have been over STUPID FUCKING WALLPAPER.
Heh -- I took the easy way out, and let Anki decide. :-)
Oh, sure, I would have protested if she'd chosen something really horrible; but fortunately, Anki has pretty good taste (i.e, similar to mine :-). And I honestly think this kind of stuff is often more important to women -- personally, it doesn't really matter all *that* much to me.
If you get really involved with wallpaper, it's probably easier to burn down the house...
This, of course, is only my opinion. There are probably those who like putting up wallpaper... or burning down houses... I'm not really into that freaky shit.
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If you go for the burn, use a roller with kerosene on the walls and use SCUBA gear to breath while you're 'painting' or you won't get out in time.
Or so I've heard...
They call you "mr Radical Solution Man"? :-)
