Kitchen Wallpaper Tips

Choosing kitchen wallpaper is something that needs to be done with care

It’s not that papering in this important room of your house shouldn’t be done, but it’s a room that has a lot of stuff going on in it.  No other room except your bathroom, has as much temperature change as this room. Check out what you need to consider if you want to paper in this room with your kitchen wallpaper.

You’ve got to live with the design, and if you don’t choose wisely you might tear it down. Worse yet, you might just dread going into the kitchen area, and a few meals might be skipped too.

Remember, before you wallpaper that it will be the most noticeable thing you can do to that area of the house. The walls in your kitchen are the pallet for decorating because it defines the style and entire look of the kitchen area. Kitchen wallpaper is a great idea, and you shouldn’t be limited with other ideas like border too.

Wallpaper Comes In a Variety of Styles

When choosing kitchen wallpaper you have a lot of choices.  Choose wisely and according to your needs.  Here are some guidelines you need to consider.

• If you have small children, who will frequently touch walls with messy hands, choose a pattern that hides fingerprints.
• If you have large areas of uninterupted wall space use big patterns.
• Stick to a small pattern that doesn't require much matching if your have doors, windows and/or kitchen cabinets that break up your wall space.
• Again, if you have children, stick with bold, distinctive patterns in bright colors.

Cost Factors

The cost of wallpapering your kitchen ranges from high to low priced. If you’re concerned about price, look around for sales. Be wary though, when sale prices are at rock bottom, you might not find enough paper to cover the area you want in your kitchen. Usually, a medium priced paper is the best way to go, but before you stick it to your walls; you’ll need to read how to clean it.

Cleaning Wallpaper

For an easy to clean wallpaper, use washable wallpaper for your kitchen wallpaper.

Cleaning it is only half the battle. If you don’t want a type that is paper thin, and easily absorbs dirt and grime, then pick one that is heavy and with a plastic coating on the outside. Believe it or not, certain wallpapers come with a plastic coating on the outside. You can wash the walls down without tearing the paper, but always use the recommended cleaning solution on it. The goal is not to destroy the plastic poly covering on your kitchen wallpaper.

How To Choose The Style

Style considerations are the color of your counter tops, and the pattern on your floor. If you’ve got a busy floor, pick kitchen wallpaper that is neutral in color and one that enhances your floor pattern. The color of your cabinets and draperies in the area are important too. Don’t ever paper and then change them. You could tear it, but it could certainly clash with the colors. It would be heartbreaking to plan and work on the walls, and then have to change the kitchen wallpaper.

Wallpaper You Can Paint

Another option that gives you some flexibility is to find kitchen wallpaper that you can paint.  When doing this look for a heavy, white paper.  You can certainly find wallpaper that comes in many different textures. 

Once you hang it on the walls you can paint it any color that you want. 

First, find a texture that seems fitting for the age of your home and then paint it, for example, a soft yellow to lighten the kitchen area.  This can be a great solution for you.  

When you paint over wallpaper you will not have a huge time factor of preparing the walls for paint. And remember...you do not have to use "traditional "kitchen wallpaper patterns. 

As you can see...with wallpaper...you really do have a lot of options to choose from.  Just make sure it’s what you like, and that it makes you feel great about preparing meals. It might be a good idea to just put a border up, or only wallpaper one side of the room for the right effect of kitchen wallpaper in that hard working area of your house.

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