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Monday, December 22, 2025

When Removing Wallpaper Rips the Wallboard

 
I finally completed a project that I'd been wanting to tackle for some time—giving the hall bathroom in my parent's home a glow up. It meant removing wallpaper, which is no one's favorite task. We kind of suspected it wouldn't be easy, and it wasn't, but we rolled with it, and the transformation is gratifying.

Mom has never been a fan of wallpaper in bathrooms. But this bathroom already had wallpaper when my parents purchased the home more than a decade ago. They'd been putting off replacing the paper, because—been there, done that—they knew that if the walls had not been prepared properly before papering, they'd be dealing with a mess. And they were right.

Read on to learn what happened as the project got underway and how I worked through the various problems that arose.