One *slight* problem.

Peel and stick paper cannot be used on fresh paint, and it cannot be used on textured paint. So I made sure to tell the property manager not to paint that wall between tenants.

It wasn't until move in day that I realized the paint has subtle texture! Oops Well, we already owned the custom paper so, may as well put it up. It went up fine, but every now and again the girls would have to press it back into place, here and there. It became a part of household chores. LOL PLus they love it, as do their friends (maybe grandmilennial *is* a thing).

Fast forward to today, one DD sends us this:

How its Going:

I think it's hysterical. One interesting thing is that it involved several strips, but came off in one piece. Go figure. I suggested to one DD that maybe it adhered to a thin payer of paint and the paint held it together. If so , she says, the paint isn't visible on it.

Our next try might be a thin strip of white molding nailed to the ceiling. Any other ideas?

Too funny.

Mtn, that is so lovely! It has a bit of you written all over it! What super lucky daughters you have! I wish my mom had such a great sense of style. My dorm room was pathetic. I was just thrilled to have a littler tv and fridge in it. Granted that was decades ago!

I can beat that -- I lived at home! I started college quite young and my parents wanted me home.

But, in my defense, the cost of them sharing this apartment was equivalent to room and board at their (overpriced) colleges, and the furniture is our stuff, except for their Craigs List sofa. Yes, the wall paper was an indulgence but not really that bad.

Anyway, now what? LOLOL

What Jilly said!

Mtn, I think molding is the answer! That would look great and keep the wallpaper from slipping of the wall. It is beautiful!

A thin strip was going to be my suggestion. DD2 just had a mural installed in her LR. Granted it is only one big piece, and the installer used a heavy duty double sided tape he had in his truck. He said it does not pull off the paint when removed. I imagine it came from HD/big box store.

I had wallpaper put in our first home's kitchen, above the cabinets and in the breakfast room. The next day, it started slowly coming off. Luckily, she came back and rehung and it stayed.

heavy duty double sided tape

Interesting! It did the job but didn't make a sort of a raised area where the tape is?

Maybe we should do both.

Huh, I was considering stick-on wallpaper for our powder room. And we have lightly textured walls. Maybe not.

It looks super cute and should definitely be saved. How about command strips? Or two-sided tape? I think the pattern would hide the slight bumps.

(Oops, sorry for the double suggestion, Allison and I were typing at the same time.)

No raised area. I was there when he came to install it and her final two light fixtures.

Best laid plans of mice and men or mom's and daughters! Hopefully there are no wrinkles that can't be smoothed out when you smoosh it back into place

In fairness Dee, the product is very clear about the required surface conditions. I think the product is great. I don't know, though, if it is all peel and stick papers or just theirs.

Thumbtacks? That is awfully funny, if slightly disastrous. My friend ran a humidfier in her baby’s room all night and in the morning found the wallpaper halfway down the wall.

I literally LOL on that one, Dedtired.

I could be on board with a nice row of decorative brass tacks, but that would drive us crazy lining them up!

Think we will try double sided tape AND molding

Maybe Allison was referring to this:

tesa® PRO 66743 Mounting Wallpaper & Plaster

Strong and lasting tape - Double-sided siliconised paper - For permanent applications - Ideal for indoor use

https://www.tesa.com/en/craftsmen/tesa-pro-66743-mounting-wallpaper-plaster.html#:~:text=Product%20description,irregularities%20and%20simplifies%20craftsmen's%20work.

You could make a "pattern" that does the spacing for you. Maybe a zigzag piece of thin cardboard where you start several nail heads, then remove the cardboard and finish the nailsheads. Or just use a yardstick with faint marks where they would go. You could even put Sharpie marks on the yardstick for quicker/easier installation.

All good ideas. We will put it to a vote!

That is kind of funny - such good intentions gone south - as if they weren't meant to have such perfect college accommodations. Sorry no ideas about what to do but fortunately you already received lots of them.

It has been up about 7 months, with a few tucks here and there!

They do offer decorative tacks, although thinking you'd like them to maybe disappear. Your idea of a thin strip nailed or tacked is a good one. That wallpaper is worth keeping up - the photo is priceless! Nice to see the rug making its home there too.

Well, at least you know the 'peel' part of peel and stick works. It's the sticking part that's not so accurate!

I, too, would use double sided tape. It isn't that thick and with the pattern, it won't show. An alternative would be the stuff used to hang posters on walls. Similar to tape but more like silly putty. You can use tiny pieces of it that won't show.

This is nailhead trim on a roll. You can see here that there is a hole every 5 nailheads where you tack into the wall. This photo was grabbed thru the Michael’s site, but I am sure Joann’s carries it too.

The double stick tape from a big box store is pretty stong. I used it at my DS’s apt to hold paper window shades that kept falling down.

The most cost effective would be a piece of molding. Paint it to match the crown molding before you install.

The good news, when the time comes, you won't have difficulty removing it!!

At least you were able to see the humor in the "disaster"! I really like the idea of the nailhead trim posted above.

Looks disastrous, but at least you did see some humor in it all. I think you could go either way with getting it back in place but the nailhead strip seems to be easier.

rather, that nailhead on a roll is fantastic!

a thin strip of moulding nailed across the top might hold for a while, but I think the wallpaper might bulge out in places. especially since it has already fallen off once. the more it's removed and re-stuck, the less sticky it gets. however, it would be easy and worth a try!

as for it coming off in one big sheet: weird! I doubt it took any paint off, it doesn't look like it did in the pic (and that stuff is really not supposed to damage paint). was it installed with a very slight overlap?

Maybe large framed panels hung up like art?

They could take them when they move and have mementos of their first apt. :)

Love those Jilly but I think the area is too busy for that, plus that is $$$$.

They don't particuarly want a row of brass tacks, which I get.

For starters we will try this and some double sided tape.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Inteplast-Group-Building-Products-1-4-in-x-8-ft-Prefinished-Polystyrene-Shoe-Moulding-Actual-0-25-in-x-8-ft/50147916?cm_mmc=shp--c--prd--mlw--ggl--LIA_MLW_122_Mouldings-Specialty-Millwork--50147916--local--0-_-0&gclid=Cj0KCQjw27mhBhC9ARIsAIFsETFuz6uxaWHhzNudeXj8fewe36RHRu6tmE6NplriTgW7vy2KLDkAtyMaAstIEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

If you're willing to say goodbye to the wallpaper and switch to fabric, you are supposed to be able to stick fabric up on a wall like wallpaper using liquid fabric starch and it is supposed to be very easy to remove.

But they love the wallpaper, decorated around it, and I am hoping not to have buy anything else.

They have smushed it back into place, and we are on our way to Maine so will deal with it this weekend.

Because taking the wallpaper down at this point may not go smoothly, can you put wallpaper paste on the wall and just smooth the paper up on it - treating it like normal wallpaper but applying paste to the wall rather than to the paper?

That photo is hilarious. But I do love the wallpaper and hope you find the right solution!

The super (Dad) and I dropped by last night on our way up to Maine. He fixed it with double sided tape. If that fails, we will go with molding I think. It really is so pretty and livens up the grey and white box that is most modern apartments!

The product does half a 1/2 inch overlap, that's why it moves in one piece.

Thanks for the help. My DD's thought double-sided tape sounded wonky until I said "well, one of my Gardenweb friends recc it and she knows her stuff." That assuaged them.

That's too funny. I hope it holds, or else you might not hear the end of it.

I hope the wallpaper stays up this time. I've hung quite a bit of wallpaper myself, including some antique wallpaper I bought in Seattle that I used on a bedroom wall in San Francisco.

I have very similar light fixtures in my kitchen and really like them:

I have two of these LED fixtures, and i used them to replace a couple of halogen fixtures that came with the house.

They came with the apartment. They are nice and highly functional too