We're re-doing our 20 year old bathrooms.... in the small guest bathroom, we stripped the wallpaper and applied a faux stucco finish.... we'd like to do the same in the other bathrooms, but they are considerably larger with A LOT of wallpaper.... we'd love to just put the finish on over the existing wallpaper..... anyone done this? What is the secret?

tia

oil based primer. I would also take some mud and go over the seams.

Second on the primer.

I've done it a couple of times when the paper was directly applied to sheetrock without primer, meaning it was laminated to the sheetrock surface. I mudded seams, primed, textured, primed again, and painted. Maybe overkill, but you'd never know there was paper under the paint.

Yeah. Oddly enough, after three coats of paint had been applied to the wallpaper in my kitchen (previous owner painted it twice, I painted it once), it came off the wall like a charm.

chick, it all depends on the paper...if the paper is 100% vinyl it won't work

if it is paper or vinyl coated paper you need to clean off the paper first and then use the epoxy base paints..they usually come white or eggshell and you can color them to your choice.

Now, when was it papered and is the paper adhering well to the wall? If you can lift up an edge and look for string like backing...that stuff helps the paper stick but also helps is come off easily.

just did it in our previous home, primer then joint compound and sand the seams, then used a mix-in texture with the paint.

Our professional painter used KILZ that was all, can tell it was ever wallpaper

When we remodeled our dining room in Feb we wanted to paint the walls a light peach color. Two walls were papered & the other 2 textured. I made sure the paper was firmly adhered to the walls, filled in the nail holes, sanded the textured walls smooth and then applied 2 coats Kilz to the paper (to cover up some very ugly blue flowers) and one coat to the textured walls then painted all four walls. You cannot tell there is paper on the two walls. Chair rail topped off the project.

OIL-BASED primer - the wallpaper glue is water soluable. Even if the paper is holding up well, a water based product can cause the glue to come lose, and/or the paper might start bubbling.