I'll post when I get the samples. I would of course prefer a real brick wall or even the z brick like Annie suggested, but you never know, they make such great things this day and it would certainly be less of a commitment. I remember my parents had on wall done in a mural in the 70's and the paper was shiny. I hope and doubt this is anything like that, but we will see.

Yes, Lee Jofa is the stockiest for Cole wallpaper in the US. And it is to-the-trade only. They will not sell it to you directly from the UK due to their licensing agreement with Lee Jofa. You may well find it online from stockiest in the UK. Shipping by air is not that expensive. What you need to understand is that European papers are 21" wide and come in 11 yrd single rolls. They cover approx 57 sq ft, if there is no repeat. American rolls are wider- usually 27" wide and a single room is about 4.5 yards long. American rolls are ALWAYS priced by the single roll but sold by the double - even triple roll. So prices can be deceiving. A single American roll will cover about 35 sqr feet. Paper hangers have a very had time figuring how many rolls one needs when they are European rolls. They don't actually know how to figure it mathematically, but through years of experience, they have learned to just look at a room and estimate the number of American double rolls needed. You will be well advised to measure yourself and do the math. Figure the number of repeats you will need for each strip of wallpaper - the larger the repeat, the more waste you will have. Then figure out how many strips you need per wall. You do this by simply measuring the wall. You will then have to figure how much less you will need for windows and doors. Understand that a professional paper hanger usually charges by the roll and for him, time is money. When I did my own paperhanging, I cut one piece at a time and saved the scrapes and looked through them for the very pice that would fit over a door or window etc. A professional cuts all his strips at once and you will have more waste so you must allow for that when ordering. It's far better to have a roll of paper left over than to run out! That extra roll may come in handy someday if you have a leak.

It's highly unlikely that you're going to be able to go to a store and match that wallpaper pattern. And, even if you could, the fact that it would be a different dye lot would make any patch obvious. The only reasonable way I know to deal with that is to get some brown paint to match the general tone, and then add some striations with a brown marking pen. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see that area continue to peel. Good thing it's a rental unit, and not something you have to worry about over the long term.

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?