Yes, I did all my closets in this house with either wallpaper I bought cheap or borders. Now, why? splash of fun wallpaper was easily cleaned over painted walls dents did not show as easily (small - made by wood hangers) not snags or fabric pulls All my closets that have custom wood shelves in them, have wallpaper covering them. even painted wood snags sometimes, so I have wallpaper on the shelves where linens sit, my sweaters. I have put in some of the wire shelving in the kids' bedrooms, but I still have wallpaper in them. the wood shelves with wallpaper on them are smooth, I can wipe them down as needed. Try it in a linen closet. You can rip out all you have in there and build the shelves the HEIGHT your towels or sheets need, then cover the walls, then cover the shelves (underside, too). ps... I do not like the wire shelving for actual shelves in bedroom closets! fabric falls thru and the hangers catch them!

thanks for these wonderful ideas. I will try to see which one works best in my situation. I love soji screen but not sure if it will go with my traditional house. I tried contact paper and was total failure already. I looked at the back of glass door handle, did not see how its attached seems like its glued on. Anyways I hope one of these options work.

I think that wallpaper is very cool but one should have a very good ventilation in a more heavily -used space like master bath(as oppossed to a powder room) I also found-after reading some amazing threads on this very forum-the Italian company that specializes in wallpapers for wet environment, outside environment, etc they don't state their price so I suppose it's like with every place that doesn't state the price..lol yet I had a blast pinning..)) http://www.wallanddeco.com/en/18-collections--Wet-System (they have also wallpapers for o u t s i d e...don't ask..) as for ripping out the walls..the chances of asbestos in the walls of '69 ranch approximate 100% so to do it right one should also do proper abatement. asbestos when undisturbed is fine; when you start disturbing it it's another story so I'd for sure choose something that doesn't involve ripping out the walls. Even though one bathroom is not a big deal. If you like other solution that doesn't involve ripping out the walls-I'd prefer that solution ah and I absolutely love whimsy, floral, and whatnot, so I'm not objective.

If its clean, I would clean it and leave it. If you do decide to remove, make sure, its actually wallpaper, that someone put up in strips, and not the paneling that was popular a while back, that had a wallpaper print on the top. It, looks to me, like it could be the wallpaper paneling, rather than regular wallpaper. Since its held up this long, I would clean it and leave it. Painting it wont last that many years, and still look that good.