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It depends on the age/type of wallpaper. Anything vinyl-strippable is pretty easy to remove, with just the adhesive requiring some washing of the walls. Not hard, doesn't take a long time at all. This will include a lot of the wallpaper from the last 30 years. There are also some paper strippables, they require a bit more work, but easily diy. These are also very common over the last 30 years. Old wallpaper (real paper/real adhesive) = real pain. Especially paper in a house that's 100 years old, where you will be stripping paper off of plaster... however, the condition of real plaster is usually very evident even through wallpaper (in my opinion). Most homes built in the last 60 years will be built with drywall rather than plaster -- very easy to tell the difference. I have been amazed when watching some of those HGTV shows where buyers will reject a home that is in all other respects wonderful because it has wall border from the last 30 years in a kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. So easy to remove and chances are you'll be painting a house anyways. Lots of good homes rejected out of needless fear of wallpaper. That being said, as a seller, I will remove wallpaper. As a buyer, I will look at the type of wallpaper. In my current house, stripped it from 2 bathrooms a family room and dining room. Certainly not a deal breaker when there's a great layout involved. Much easier to remove wallpaper than move walls!! As to your current situation, I agree, just put art on the walls and save yourself the time and expense :)

Varnishing wallpaper is not a good idea in my opinion either but if you really want to do it at any cost then Polyvine Decorators Varnish may be good for you

I would focus on 3 colors predominantly- black for furniture and curtains (existing unless you’re looking to change window treatments too), warm gray for carpet, paint and background colors and gold for accents. I would pull the carpet color from the color of the leaves on the wall paper to tie it together. Same for paint. I’d take one of the colors you like from the paper and match it to paint. I would recommend pottery barn furniture in black - it will look much better than the mid tone gold wood pieces the previous owner had.