Super fresco Graham And Brown 17583 Curvy White Paintable Wallpaper, 56 Sq Ft

beautiful pattern. great value

I bought this same style of wallpaper about 8 years ago and had it in my hall. I bought this to replace some areas which had been damaged by our late cat. I was able to strip off the old paper in strips and replace with new strips of this. I had forgotten what a brilliant paper it was to work with. It is such good quality and so easy to paint. My hall looks fantastic again. So very happy with this purchase.

We are always concerned when we see mixed reviews so I want to lay out exactly what our experience was like. We were first time wallpaperers! We do a LOT of DIY though, literally every type of construction, electric, plumbing, etc so we have a fairly good grasp on all DIY. When first opening the paper, we were a bit concerned as there were couple tears, and the edges were a little frayed. However, the couple of tears were in cuts of waste so we had no issues there and once glued and hung up the edges blended well. There is a little bit of inconsistency in some of the design along seams. (Meaning: even when one inner diamond is lined up perfect then the next one os off, then the next was back on point...it was odd.) Also, it can be difficult to cut, buy lots of razors or exacto knife.With all this being said, it turned out great! The little imperfections blended away. We are letting it cure before painting so I'll update the post after we do that. The things we would want you to know when taking this project on are have plenty of razors...it frays easily and you do not want the paper to tear. When cutting, we found if you run the blade flat, it cuts cleaner. If you angle it and apply pressure at the point of the razor you get bunching and tears. We did have a couple of "oops" spots first the first run but were able to use paste to blend the cut together at the baseboard. (We know it is there but when asking others, they cannot see it.) It is a lot easier to do with two people, if you have the luxury of help! I have included pictures of the paste we used too. We found it best to use a paint roller to roll the paste on the paper, then roll the wall. We allowed 4-5 minutes after Application before hanging. We tried to glue just the wall and it caused bubbling and just the paper did not allow it to stick well, so we recommend doing both but allow it to "set up" before hanging. We only used a long flat brush to smooth the paper out. (Pic included.) Paste clean up was not needed on the paper with this type of application. However paste on the brushes washed off with soap and warm water.So, we definitely would use this again! It looks great even left unpainted, but we will be doing that tomorrow. It did take us 3.5 hours since we had never hung paper and had some unique cuts. The cuts take the most time though since we wanted to do our best to minimize damage to the edges. The few imperfections will fade with paint, and I have never seen a "perfect" wall in any house! The wall we hung the paper on had a LOT of imperfections that we could never fully fix, but now we cannot see any of them.We highly recommend as the final product looks amazing, but it does carry a degree of difficulty especially if you are doing this alone. We are planning our next wall!Good luck! We hope this information is helpful!(The close up pic I included has a couple of the imperfections I described...see if you find them!)

I love this paper. It is going on a white/off white area and it just provides the mid-century modern look I was going for in the texture and swirl. I haven't hung it yet, but it appears a nice weight to work with so I am optimistic the project goes smoothly.

I found the paste a bit of a hassle so next time I think I would use a water-based