The question is: wallpaper or paint?

If your walls are bare, then all steps of work will be the same for both products:

1. Levelling of the walls
2. Undercoating
3. Applying of finishing coating

Levelling of walls for coating will differ from levelling walls for wallpapers. The walls shall be levelling perfectly for paint application as the paint can emphasize all uneven spots. The wallpapers can hide small defects of the surface, thus there is no need to level the surface perfectly.

Undercoating is the same for all types of products.

Application of paint and glueing of the wallpapers differ in the difficulty of application. Coating the wall with paint is easy even alone, so one person manages this wark easily without any help. Glueing of wallpaper is more difficult. The thing is that it is necessary to apply the glue on the wallpaper and on the wall simultaneously, in order to prevent its drying and then you have to glue the wallpaper in a proper way and if you have a pattern on the wallpaper, the application is much more difficult. When you come to the corner, you have the most problematic place for glueing. Who's ever tried it, knows what is going on. The corners are usually not ideal, so you have to cut the wallpaper in many places before it sticks to the wall somehow. But after drying they can come off and it spoils the whole look.

If you have wallpapers on the walls and decide to renew the premise, then you shall decide what shall it be paint or wallpaper from the very beginning before removing old wallpaper from the walls. You can do it alone but it takes you much time. Taking off the wallpapers is not easy as it can look from the first veiw. Sometimes they stick to the surface very firmly and removing them is almost impossible. That is why it is good to wet the wallpapers and remove them with a spatula.

Subsequent works will differ. If you want to glue the wallpaper, you shall just glue the wallpaper with all difficulties described above. If you want to apply paint, then you have to finish the surface of the walls perfectly, undercoat them and then apply paint. As we mentioned applying paint is an easy and quick process,

We shall admit, that the process of gluing of the wallpaper just looks easy at first glance. If you have a look and think it over, you understand that the coating of the walls with paint is more profitable and economic. Why? Let's discuss it further.

This is the easiest and the most simple option. If you decide to glue the wallpapers, then just take and glue them. If you decide to paint - take and paint. There is no need for complicated preparations. You need just to remove dust and dirt from the walls.

And now let's return to the question: why is interior paint more profitable than wallpaper in the long-term perspective? Each time you decide to change your wallpaper, you have to remove the old ones. You can have great pain removing them. But the worst option is when you remove them together with the coat of finishing plaster underneath. In this case, you will have to apply a finishing coat of plaster and flatter the surface again. In its turn, finishing preparation before paint application is a difficult process but you have to do in once ant after than you coat the walls again and again easily even every month.

The durability of these two coatings is absolutely different. Wallpapers will serve you 5-6 years but if it is a children room the term can be shortened to 2 years. Renovation of the damaged part of the wallpaper is very difficult and almost impossible.

The life period of paint coating is more than 10 years. All defected areas or child's drawings are easy to overcoat and let the child creates new masterpieces.

It's high time to make conclusions and the best way to do it is to name all profits and drawbacks.

Profits of wallpaper:

1. Varied design
2. It hides small defects on walls

Profits of interior paints:

1. A great number of colors (it can be tinted in more than 1900 shades)
2. It is easy to apply
3. it is resistant to washing
4. You need one man for coating

Drawbacks of wallpaper

1. It is not durable
2. The process of application is complicated
3. It is not resistant to water impact
4. It is difficult to renovate it

Drawbacks of paint:

1. It is important to prepare the walls in a perfect way before applying paint but it will turn into advantage later on.

When you get tired of color on the walls and want some new trending shades, you will understand that paint is the very right choice.