Its would be clearly mentioned in every instructions that you have to vital prepare before you paint the wall. you must apply a coat of oil based premier to the entire surface of the walls before posting. These will help to seal the adhesive within the paper, away from moisture and prepare it for paint. Here is a link that might be useful: painters This post was edited by LuisHinkle on Thu, Aug 28, 14 at 8:57

Hi All, Beachlily-Glad to help a fellow GW. Prill-You have incredible taste but you've heard me gush about your kitchen. Love that paint choice. Bee-lol. I love that your DS is in Art school and colored blind. Watch him be the next Picasso! Well not with chasing women but with art. elle3- I am all over the place because I have another bathroom that needs to be updated too. DH realizes how great disappearing wallpaper looks and has encouraged me to tackle that next. I need my fingernails to grow back first. Chris-I checked out the rustoleum. Yes, this a possibility. thank you. Arsy- When I get back from my business trip I will post pics of the space and you will laugh uproariously at the hideous wallpaper. Lukkiirish- I checked out Martha Stewart. Pretty colors. Truly pretty. Now what??? help me I am going to keep the wood as is. Because I have another bathroom with the exact same wood that I am going to stain darker a chocolate color. DH is on board with this. I found an inspiration pic and of course the above pics helped tremendously. Thank you for your photoshop and for your own bath pics. I went to Khols today and found marked down these bath rugs. I have no idea the quality but the fact they are a 100% cotton appealed to me and they were super cheap. I also bought matching towels in the light sea green color. Then after I went to HomeDepot. Light fixtures were butttt ugly. I can not see spending $100 on something I only tolerate. I am going to search on line. What do you think? Which paint looks better with the cabs? (Stupidly I picked the colors up before writing them down... I think it is in this order milk pail ML, rainwater, perfect taupe, winter's day and frozen pond Frozen Pond Behr Winter's Day Martha Stewart Perfect Taupe Behr Rain Water ML Milk Pail ML The cabs look so orange in the pic they are far more yellow. Or should I chuck these all and go back to something more blue and less sea glass. I am thinking for the downstairs bath Black, pale blue and white will be the prevailing them so this bath more beach glass classic cottage look... Any ideas would be awesome. ~boxer

Karen: which technique are you doing? Textured wallpaper over old wallpaper? Or one of the others? Rereading my post (after getting some sleep) it reads more like I am asking about texturing with drywall compound (like imitating venetian plaster, or a tuscan stucco look). PLEASE come back and tell me how it went! I have seen the paper bag technique done on home improvement shows. ItÂs actually simpler. Dipping in poly would be very messy and sticky. You adhere the paper with latex glaze or acrylic matte medium. Then cover with the same clear liquid to seal it in before painting. My hesitation with doing that is if someday down the road you didnÂt want such a texture, you could NEVER get it off. The entire room would have to be skimcoated by someone with the skills to get it really flat and smooth. I donÂt think I want to go that route. At least with drywall compound texturing it could be sanded off smooth easily.

Sorry to hear about your experience. Mine is/was similar. I found several layers of wallpaper, with a skim coat in between, and then under that, it seems to have been applied directly to drywall. I have removed a lot of wallpaper in the past, but I ended up damaging the drywall in one room so badly, we decided to hire someone. I had several contractors come through who looked at the amount of wallpaper and wouldn't do it! One guy was willing and he starts this morning so I will see what magic he uses. If he has any tips, I will share.