Thread 519423945

It's over

You will own no wallpaper, and you will be happy.

I have a friend who's side hustle is installing high-end custom wallpaper. It's the weirdest thing I can possibly imagine him doing given his day job. He just loves taking $5000 pieces of paper and slapping it up on the wall with no margin for error. Kind of respect that.

>>519424105
I have been shopping for more property to buy and its crazy just how fucking gaudy some noveau riche types are, they plaster some walls with the worst wallpaper you have ever seen completely ruining rooms in the process. I can see your friend make a killing out of these types.

>>519424105
what other imaginary friends do you post about on here?

>>519423945 (OP)
Ireland has fallen

Says they also sell paint. I would think that alone would keep the business afloat while also offering some wallpaper for niche projects.

As a kid in the early 90s, helped my parents and grandparents wallpaper their houses.
It was beyond frustrating.

They even tried wallpapering the ceiling in one room. I still remember grandma yelling FUCK when it fell down during the middle of the night. lmfao

>>519424105
whose, not who's

>>519424583
Wallpaper is having a minor revival but unlike gallons of paint, wallpaper ships easy and websites fronting a warehouse can have far more variety for less cost than a retail outlet.

>>519423945 (OP)
who cares

>>519425165
White people

>>519425165
I am an irish wallpaper enthusiast

Painted walls are superior in every way.
Easy as fuck to do, won't come off, washable.

My grandmothers house had sweet bicentennial wallpaper in the dining room. I wish somebody kept some of it

>>519424622
I was there, I wasn't feeling all that well that night and gran was yelling at me not the wallpapaer

>>519424284
The classic styles just don't work well with modern minimalist furniture, harsh bright lighting, and clean open room designs. With big heavy ornate dark wood furniture, lower warm lighting, more compact cozy spaces, and massive antique oriental rugs that cost a good chunk of the down payment of a starter home with their own patterns those weird earthy patterns of classic wallpaper designs can work really well. I agree if you just slap them up in a modern average home they do look ugly as sin though. Hell, they can be ugly patterns in and of themselves, but in the right context it just kinda works somehow.

>>519425614
i'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the last time i checked, the us still had the biggest economy in the world. and while they do spend a lot on the military, they also spend the most on the military.

Wallpaper bros, are we going to be ok?

>>519424284
I've browser a lot of NZ real estate listings, and what is truly crazy is how ugly NZ interiors are, it's on another level. Half your houses have the same grey carpet wall to wall. I'm on the flashy wallpaper people's side, they are just trying to take back their sanity amid the wreckage.

Wallpaper be booming rn fr fr no cap don't know what op is on about

>>519426208
I want to hear him say 'its over'

>>519424051
I hate that look, if you have white walls then you have to have color in your furniture

>>519423945 (OP)
I was quoted €450 for two curtain rails to be installed.
I bought them online for €100 and did it myself. I also probably did a better job than a greedy lazy Irish tradesman.

I dont know how Irish business are viable.

>>519423945 (OP)
where will curryhearw get their ethnic patterns from

>>519431858
a lot of businesses are ran with the “era, be grand” model. complete fucking retardation. it’s why im neeting again.

Good, floors should be wood or marble and walls should be painted or textured. Get yourself a nice fluffy rug.

Is wallpaper something significant to Dublin or Ireland? I find it more worrying that butcher shops ate vanishing almost everywhere.

>>519423945 (OP)
Fuck wallpaper, when I moved into my own place I had to remove it from every single wall, which wasn't bad because it was peeling anyway, but goddamn that underlayer took days to fully get off.
Walls are now nicely painted

>>519423945 (OP)
Oh! Nooo! Not the boomer paper shop. I fucking hate wall paper with a passion that I can't explain because I have had to tear down so much of it and replace entire walls because they were ruined from it. It's like everything the last generation did was see how much money they could save while fucking us over in the future.

>>519435494
>replace entire walls
wtf ? Sounds like bullshit

>>519435494
We have something even worse here called pebbledash. What you do is you take cement and pebbles and slop the vomit looking shit onto your beautiful brick wall. (also removing it is a massive pain in the ass). Super common too from the 80s

>>519423945 (OP)
wallpaper is the most boomer thing in existence
good riddance

>>519435625
>80s
there was a similar trend here too
pic related
it was called 'ram plaster' or just 'ram' because it kinda looks like sheep wool

>>519423945 (OP)
Why?
What did make the situation?

>>519435968
yeah looks like the same thing sometimes people paint it. It's fucking hideous and just plain sucks.

>>519423945 (OP)
I've noticed that shops are getting more and more gay and feminine in inner cities.
You don't see furniture or hardware stores anymore. Nowadays it seems like it's only
>banks
>shoe store
>chocolate seller
>glasses shop
>cheap yet overpriced clothes store

>>519436210
I think most people just order stuff like this online but maybe they just hire people and don't DIY stuff anymore. Not 100% sure.

People who paint their walls white must be the same type of weirdos who unironically ask "why would you need a bedframe?"
I don't know what makes people that way, maybe some mind virus meant to accustom them to pod living.

>>519436029
Popcorn ceilings, painted over with water proof paint. Try removing that.
Also textured vinyl wallpaper. Its tougher than the wall behind it.

The only wall paper you will ever need! Cradle to grave. Only problem is the person who comes behind you trying to remove it.

>>519435625
Holy shit that stuff was awful. And if you were a kid and happened to run into it playing catch pr something it would tear the absolute fuck out of you. Like being cheese grated. Even worse when they used those sharp, quartz type pebbles

>>519425450
nigger what are you doing that requires you to wash your fucking walls?

even my closets are wallpapered. no wallpaper in bathrooms, though.

>>519439058
If you have kids washing your walls is needed, even if you don't still good to do from time to time.

>>519435625
The trend here is to paint the brick white. Looks retarded.

>>519439231
my house as a child was also papered. I just wasn't a feral nigger coloring and shitting on the walls like you or your children, apparently. the fuck is going on in irish households?

>>519439455
You aren't washing off coloring, you just wash off hand marks and such. Your walls are filthy you just are so used to it you don't notice.

>>519439525
just... dont put dirty hands on the walls.... the fuck is wrong with you

>>519439695
You clearly never have had kids and never will. Or perhaps Americans are too fat and retarded to get out of bed and go outside and play. Kids make a mess unless you drug them and overfeed them.

>>519439766
learn how to read, potatonigger

sorry you were so low IQ as a child (same with your offspring) that you smear your dirty soiled hands on fucking walls

>>519439856
I read it and it does not account for children doing stuff they shouldn't be doing which happens. Americans are so dim witted it's unreal.

>>519439997
we're not all savages as children like you, potatonigger

>>519440545
lmao stay in your filth encrusted house judging other people for washing their houses.

Not many people use wallpaper here anymore. I don't know about Ireland. Store was too specialized. Should have also sold paint, spackle and caulk. Probably sell some tiles too.

I lived in an old house built in 1902. It had bumpy horse hair plaster. It had 7 layers of wallpaper and 2 layers of paint on the kitchen walls when I renovated it in the 90's. Had to put new wallpaper because everything was peeling off and the walls were too bumpy to paint directly on top without looking like shit. The plaster looked like it was only going to last a few more decades. If I would still be living there I might be replacing all the old plaster right about now instead of just a section. Modern plaster is much smoother so wallpaper is unnecessary.

>>519424583
They really should have had a clearance sale years ago on half their wallpaper to make room for new inventory.

>>519439058
Smoking cigarettes, cooking greasy foods, touching walls with filthy hands, and toddlers drawing on walls with a crayon. If you don't smoke usually a damp cloth or Mr. Clean eraser will do. Grease often needs chemical cleaners. That can build up on kitchen walls and become a fire hazard. Not an everyday thing but something that should be done every few months.

>>519435743
Also for people who can't afford to replace all of their old crumbly wall plaster. It gives the wall a few more years and keeps you from breathing plaster particles. There are some nice designs from the 80's and 90's. I don't know if they still make anything like it now. But the stuff from before is usually hideous. I live in a house from the 80's and had to remove wallpaper in one bedroom and was sad to see it go. All painted walls in my house now. Unlike when I was living in the 1900's house back in the 90's. All of the old wallpaper I ended up replacing never looked good even before it was peeling off. I was only able to find one old timey style that looked good for the living room. That was the only room where we tried to have it look like the era the house was built in. Yet somehow in my current home that 80's wallpaper looked good even when it was half peeled off the wall almost 30 years later.

>>519423945 (OP)
Coming soon. Barbers, vape shop and a mini mart

>>519435625
>>519435968

you guys had this shit too?

>>519432229
>>519431858
I lived in Ireland for almost a decade and I have no idea how businesses stay afloat there.
>Our cafe is open from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday
Or with tradesmen you’d call them for a job and they’d just never show up. It didn’t matter if it was me or my irish wife calling. Either way, anyone with a work ethic would probably make a killing there.

>>519439412
>paint the brick white
Women need to be stopped.

>>519423945 (OP)
the writing is on the wall

>>519424051
Holy heck I just fucking love grey! It makes me feel like I'm in a big tech office! It really helps me reach zen mode when I'm typing away an email or brainstorming a new start up that's going to disrupt the dog sitting/car detailing/land scaping industry in my town!

>>519443958
Open for only 6 hours on a typical day? That sounds like Sunday hours if you even bother. Not the 10 AM part. But not staying open for a full 8 hours. Even if you just do the typical 9-5 when most other people work you are open long enough for them to schedule to take some time off to go shopping.

>>519443838
yeah it's still getting put on houses here.

>>519435625
pebbledash (and roughcast, pretty much the same thing) is actually quite useful for damp countries. It throws rain off better than bricks and insulates, Scotland has got shitloads of houses covered in it. I'd agree, it doesn't look great and it got a bad rep as often used to cover up shoddy brickwork. But its not unuseful, when properly applied.