Great idea! I loved doing wallpaper when I had two legs. I used vinyl with light paper backing when I liked the pattern. If it needs to come off, it is easy.
Wallpaper is pretty but I will not wallpaper ever again.(famous last words ) It was a bear to tear off and clean the glue residue off of the walls.
I wallpapered 3 rooms in this house back in the 1980s. The first with paper that you soaked in water to activate the glue on the back. From then on, I added extra paste around the edges. It seemed to help. Why is wallpaper soooo expensive??? I remember sorting through the odds and ends half price table at the first, and only, Lowes-type lumber store in town. I had to take whatever I could find enough of that matched. One set was plaid. Try to make plaid work in an old house with crooked walls. It was a challenge in the corners.
When I retired in 2007, I decided to wallpaper our extra bedroom and make it our "log cabin" room. I sent away for the wallpaper and paid a guy to install it. It was a three dimensional "log" paper that was installed horizontally (railroad track) with a top border of red with large golden stars. there were 3 doors, and the room was not square, but Ron did a great job to match up the logs at the corners and it turned out great. As I recall it was $400 for the paper and the same for installation. It was pre-pasted. My biggest job was removing the old paper (that covered remnants of older paper underneath) and patching the nail holes and cracks, and then priming the walls. For some time, I didn't want to drive a nail in the new paper, but after I went away for a resin Moose head, with antlers that bolted on, arrived and was hung, I gradually added "cabin clutter" to the room. I recently retired "Reggie, the resin moose" and replaced him with a plastic "Eagle" clock, sprayed with black to tone down the bright gold. He found a good home.
I'm trying to remember the last time I hung wallpaper. I think it was my bedroom when I was a kid, but I have vague memories of pattern-matching in my adult years. Perhaps I helped someone and have forgotten details. The only other wall covering I've done is installing panel in one room. It was a bad idea because the room was small and the wood paneling made it real dark. When I was working with a non-profit doing home repairs for folks, we did one room that had paneling installed with a permanent adhesive called Liquid Nails. At some point, the occupant had ripped out the paneling and left vertical floor-to-ceiling strips of the adhesive all the way around the room. There was no way to scrape it off, so another guy and I "skim-coated" the room, meaning we applied successive thin coats of plaster on the walls until we built it up to the level of the residual adhesive. It looked nice, and I gained some mean plastering skills.
I got my taxidermist kid a Jack-a-lope head for Christmas. It looked really good even from Temu and she was thrilled. Can't wait to see where she hangs him.
It is expensive and nice stuff is hard to find! Used to be it was in books in paint stores all around. It wasn't cheap but not as bad as today.
Speaking of fire in the house... Several days ago, I woke up hearing a very faint chirping sound. Like a smoke alarm when the battery needs changed. But I don't have a smoke alarm upstairs. It stopped as soon as I got out of bed, so I couldn't track it down. It must be the thermostat. It's fairly new. Does it have a battery? It has too many settings to just wipe them all out by changing a battery for no good reason. It didn't happen again as far as I know. Maybe it was a bird. It happened again this morning. This time I jumped out of bed. Put in one of those hearing aids, and tracked it down to a smoke alarm I bought several months ago, in a box sitting on the desk upstairs. I put in a battery just to check the sound, but never installed it. Why didn't it chirp at other times? Only around 7am? .
Appointment for YAG procedure in right eye was yesterday. First stop they put 4 different drops in the eye and slapped a pink dot sticker on my forehead above the right eye, then on to a second waiting room. Three more women came in with pink dots. I wonder if they give the men blue dots. Others came and went but we pink dotters were still sitting there after 1.5 hours. There must have been some kind of mix-up about scheduling for the YAG doctor. Maybe he overslept. Then things began to stir. A nurse rushed in and went around the room to the pink dot women and checked if our pupils were still dilated. The doctor popped in and said they were just about ready. The wait didn't bother me because I was just thankful to get an appointment so soon. What did bother me a little was the obvious rushing when things finally started to happen. Two more eyedrops, and the doctor shot laser beams into my eye, about 10-15 zaps. The whole procedure lasted 2 minutes max. Instantly vision was clear---not just back to normal, but better than normal. No floaters at all and things were whiter in that eye, like after cataract surgery. This could be explained by the dilation. I waited until today to post this because I didn't want to give a glowing review and then have to eat crow. But the eye is still partly dilated after 24 hours. I'm tired of waiting. The street lights last night were clear well-defined starbursts, not fuzzy halos. Night driving will be fine now. It will be whatever it will be. Time to move on.
I'm getting real close to needing cataract surgery. My car has Garage Door Opener buttons in the rear view mirror frame. They each have a small white marking to differentiate #1, #2 and #3. I cannot see them well enough to see which is which.