I love it. We went to an estate sale in the Chickasaw Gardens area (of Memphis) a few months ago, and the large room added on to the back portion of the house was done entirely in grasscloth, import porcelain pieces, oil paintings, and oriental carpets over a slate floor. I swooned. DH took one look and said that he wanted that look in his office, so it definitely also appeals to men. I love the inspiration photos above...such great examples! Teacats, I have a small collection of Japanese Imari, and the room that you described sounds like my dream room in color and texture. I'll bet that it was beautiful! Scoobyruby, I think that you live in the same general area that I do? Sometimes Seabrook has grasscloth at a deep discount, especially if someone orders something and then decides to go a different direction. Check the Mendenhall location occasionally, or have them call you, and you might luck out and find some nice grasscloth for a nice price!

We won't be drywalling for several reasons, including: our very short summer season (not spending two weeks of our short season under construction), we had a fire in our main residence and spent more than a year rebuilding (I am now severely adverse to anything resembling renovating), it is out in the boonies and therefore really hard to get anyone out there to do any sort of construction (and forget about doing it well), and, finally, I crashed my car and have to buy a new one so cash is a bit tight. There isn't anything behind the panelling. It is nailed right to the studs. Our climate is extremely dry and, from what I've read online, heavy wallpaper over panelling is okay (as long as you prime under it). I found some at Home Depot that seems relatively inexpensive, but maybe I'm not figuring out the square footage correctly? They also have paintable wallpaper in a grasscloth texture that is even more affordable.

I would do black trim. What would be the point of white? It would stick out like a sore thumb against the black and negate the whole disappearing walls effect. And for those who advocate neutral walls, black is pretty neutral. :) ETA: Don't forget that your floors are light and will provide contrast. If you add contrast on the walls as well, it might make the wallpaper stand out in a way you don't want. Here are some pictures I found of both. It may help you decide which effect you prefer. Dark grasscloth walls, white trim above and below: Trim the same colour as walls(notice the dark floor as well): No trim, dark floor, white ceiling. I find the grasscloth wall disappears into the floor. Dark grasscloth and dark trim, dark floor:

If I don’t wish to remove the current multiple layers of wallpaper on my plaster walls would using paintable wallpaper over them make it any easier to remove later than simply painting over them? There are parts of the old paper that would need repaired before we could do either. If you want to know the why to this question read on, its long, but I have very strong feelings about why I don’t wish to try to remove this paper. The full situation: We’ve been slowly remodeling our early 20th century house. Most of the walls are plaster except for the back half of our upstairs which was added later and is wood paneling. Every inch of the house is covered in wallpaper. The original plan was to eventually drywall the paneled rooms upstairs and to remove the wallpaper to the original plaster downstairs. Re-doing walls however is much further down our current to-do list so in the interim I’ve painted over the wallpapered-paneled bedroom walls. I’ve learned from this that if the wall and paper is in good shape you can barely tell there is even wallpaper under it, but if they are not every imperfection will show. Here is the before and after of my daughter’s room. Even knowing it’s painted wallpapered I always have to look very hard to find the seams. In our bedroom however I see the creases in the paper the minute I walk in (it’s still a 1000x better than the old wallpaper was!) I have also now experienced removing wallpaper from old plaster walls and I don’t wish to go through it again. We removed the wallpaper from my son’s bedroom in the old part of the house. The paper removal was itself was fine, but the walls were in terrible condition and covered in lead paint. Dealing with these issues took about 10 weeks. Those walls are beautiful now, but I am in no hurry to repeat the disruption and stress this caused. I am now considering what I want to do with the walls in our main living space downstairs. These have many, many layers of wallpaper on them. We saw evidence of this when taking down some crown trim and from some “helpful” wallpaper removal by our 6 month old pup. We’ve been dealing with the wallpaper, most of which, while dated is at least somewhat neutral in tone. However, we are talking about removing a fake beam in order to be able to place our TV on that wall and the current wallpaper only goes up to it. My husband has talked of putting drywall over the plaster. This not only seems weird to me but problematic in that much of our original trim would likely be damaged in the effort and we would never be able to match it exactly. At this point I feel like our best option would be either to paint the current wallpaper, or to put paintable wallpaper over it and paint that. Would it likely be easier to remove paintable wallpaper in order to restore the walls at some point if that is what is wanted or would it equally hard? I’m almost considering this more for someone who comes after us because frankly the only way I foresee us re-doing these walls the “correct” way would be if we had enough money after my children grow up and leave home to have a professional come in and do them all at once. Honestly, that seems unlikely to me, we’re older, with young kids trying to save for retirement, and college and remodel this house. We’ll be lucky to have enough for retirement and I don’t know that I’d want to stay in such a large house when the children are gone anyway. I know nothing about hanging wallpaper, but I do know how to paint it, so I think that would “easier” for me, and I also can’t imagine texture on every wall, I’d really have to find something super subtle. Anyway, I’m simply not up for removing the paper and dealing with what’s underneath, so what’s the next best thing?