brownpaper bag wallpaper

For the renters, you can hang inexpensive fabric on a wall using liquid starch. Just put starch in a large bucket, saturate the fabric, put on the wall like wallpaper, matching seams. When the starch dries the material stiffens and it does not harm the walls. I did the lower half of a long hallway, with a chair rail molding at the top. When I tired of it I just peeled it off, washed the fabric and the wall, and both were as good as new.

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I used the tissue paper on a lamp once. Well, in fact it's still on the side table in the living room. It was a plain clear glass lamp. I sprayed the lamp with spray adhesive; crinkled up plain white tissue paper that had been torn into different sized pieces and stuck it to the lamp; I then painted it to match the colors of the room. Sort of looks like stucco or rough pottery. Pretty neat. I did it a couple of years ago. It is a bugger to dust though.

I saw the technique used on Trading Spaces. Christy, the designer from Dallas, TX used it and it turned out great. She tore the paper in large hunks, crinkled it and burned the edges. She adhered it to the wall with watered down white glue using paint brushes. When it was dry, she used an overhead projector to cast a scene from "Tombstone" in silhouette on the wall and she traced it and blacked it in with paint. I loved it.

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I might try the material on mine....it sounds easy and cheap to do.

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I wonder what would happen if I tried it on the stupid textured ceiling in the living/dining room... It's not that "popcorn" stuff, but it's uneven and really needs to be scraped off (yuck!) or covered or blasted or nuked.

Anyone have an idea if this will work over a rough surface?

Pony!

I have a hall that needs something done to it. I just might give this a try.

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pony, on rough surfaces Bonnye Manning at Brownbagwalls says it can cover, using Draw-Tite no run. She says draw-tite is the key. Nobody local has draw-tite. I did try painting paper before tearing & pasting it, interesting look.

Love the look but wondering like someone else posted...how do you remove the brown paper after you get tired of the look...does it remove easy or do you have to put new drywall up to cover it??

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Well, the pictures look better than I expected, but it still looks like brown paper. Why would you want brown walls? That makes a room awfully hard to illuminate.

I was impressed by one job I saw. The walls were the usual not-exactly-white and this lady applied brown paint with a feather. It came out looking quite good.

I was planning on doing this to my bedroom last year, but then life got busy and I haven't gotten back to it yet. But I was just thinking that to test this out, I have a stairway that looks awful! Anything would be an improvement over bare sheetrock. We just haven't known what to do and keep ignoring it. But I think that I'll get some materials together and give this brown paper technique a try. Then if it's easy enough, I'll tackle the bedroom. I was going to try for a parchment look in the bedroom and then decorate in a Japanese theme. My husband loves the Japaense landscape murals. They look easy enough to paint. And here and there some Japanese words. My bedroom is quite large (16x20) and is currently being used as a bedroom/exercise room/computer storage area. So it'll be a big job just prepping for decorating. But yeah, I'm excited to try the stairway now. Thanks guys!

Wow, I love this place, we just moved into our 1800s farmhouse and my son's room has an old floral wallpaper, there is no sheetrock - just wood I think---- We are doing a woodland theme and just ordered a black bear bed set- THIS WILL BE AWESOME! cheap and easy! Thanks!

If you seal the original wall then use a wheat paste to apply the brown paper, a sqiirt bottle and spatulla will take it right off. Just spray it down, wait till it soaks the water up and it is easy. I have used the brown paper bags. I burned the edges before I put them up. It looks more like leather patch work then just the paper pieces pasted up. You can even use a marker to create stitches or for a Western look Brands on the leather.

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Ok, today's the day! I just sized the walls in the stairway. I got all my materials ready. As soon as the sizing is dry I'm going for it! Woohoo! (with fingers crossed she looks up the intructions again before plowing ahead)

I have wanted to do this technique in the hallway of our mobilehome . It is so dark - that ugly paneling . I was wondering if I could use some blank newsprint type paper . I can get all of that type of paper I want from where my husband works. It is lighter in color than the paper bag paperbut also lighter weight . Bet it would look good with a glaze on it . Whatcha think ?

Free-2-b-me, I don't see why it wouldn't work. The only problem I can think of is that if it's too lightweight the walls would show through beneath it. But maybe a couple of layers of paper would take care of that? I think you could actually get a better wrinkle effect on the wall with a thinner paper than with a heavy paper.

Mine looks pretty good. It's almost dry and it has a "mottled" look to it that I like. After I ripped the paper, I dipped it in a pail of warm water, then squeazed the water out. This crumpled the paper. Then I rolled paste onto the pieces, booked them and after I had a pile of them ready to go, I stuck them on the wall. When it's all done I'm going to paint leaves in a slightly darker shade of brown in a random pattern just to jazz it up a bit. Then I'll poly it. It's as dark as I'd want it to be so I don't think I'll add any paint to the poly. UNLESS, I add a lighter color. Hmmmm.......

If you try it, let us know how it worked!

Thanks Nancy ! The addition of leaves sound real nice - I like to bring the outside in too . I probably will be working on it when snow starts to fly - too much outside stuff to get done before then don'tcha know !

I was thinking the same thing. My hall is long and dark so I want to lighten it up. Newspaper "ends" would probably work (maybe look like blond leather?) That's what I'm planning to try if I can find a source for the paper.

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Yeah, I hear ya, I know! I got me one of them list of to-do's myself.

Free-2-b-me and Spinner--I've heard of painting on panelling. My cousin's wife didn't like the panelling when they moved into their house, so she filled the vertical "cracks" with joint compuind and painted like any other wall. It turned out quite well. I've been toying with that thought too for my living room.

Nancy - Our bedroom is painted white (by the previous owners) over the paneling . It looks good painted . Last summer when I gutted the kitchen I put luan over the paneling and now have smooth walls in there (turned out nice) .
The outside wall in the hallway had sliding patio doors that we had taken out and replaced with a regular door . The entire outside wall was replaced with luan but the opposite side is still paneling . I might spackle the paneling first then apply the paper so the indentations don't show through.
Spinner - my husband works at a box factory and they use the light newsprint paper for what they call slip sheets during packing . I am going to have him bring home the trimmings . I think it will work fine - I am going for a leathery - venetian plaster look . The new glazes they have out are real nice and should get me the look I want .

spinner, I tried white paper Walmart had in rolls in office supplies. It was one of my early experiments. It worked ok if texture etc was all you were trying to accomplish, it didn't hide much. I had put up brown paper experimenting, it took several layers to hide the brown. I painted brown paper with walmart flat soft white, then tore it. Looks pretty good & sort of semi gloss instead of flat. I'd like to know how news print turned out.