I ordered this wallpaper in the black plaid, and it is gorgeous. I highly recommend it. It is even prettier in person than it is online. When looking at it installed, it even appears that it has some texture though it does not. There is a very subtle shine to the lighter gray in it, like a platinum. Really pretty. It came with plenty on the roll to do the areas above my kitchen back splash, with more left over for something else or if something needs to be replaced later. It adds such an amazing dynamic to the kitchen now--classy. In love with it! What an upgrade.
There were not any directions about how to install it or what else you might need, so I did have to figure that out. It is amazing what all you can find online, including tips and tricks. The best tip I found was, especially for darker wallpapers, that you should paint the wall a color close to your wallpaper at all edges and also where the wallpaper seams will may so that if if you dont quite make it to an edge or if your seams are not perfectly lined up, you will not see white wall behind. Though the seems lined up beautifully, it was the edges that would have mattered had I not painted them beforehand.
I had also not installed pasted wallpaper before. The paste I got had very few instructions as well, but I soon figured it all out...clean the walls well, apply paste to the back of the wallpaper and also to the wall, line it up and gently smooth it into place with a smoothing tool from the center outward. With my first piece of wallpaper, I did not apply paste to the wall as well, just to the back of the paper, and it started to lift. I just peeled the paper back from the wall gently, brushed glue onto the wall and the wallpaper again, and smoothed it back into place, after which it stuck just fine. When (not if for me) a corner or seam lifted, I simply brushed a little more glue onto it and the wall behind it, and pressed it back into place. With this many smaller spaces and tight areas with lots of angles to work with and outlets too (see pics), it was much more difficult and time consuming to do than it would have been to do an entire wall, but it was worth it.
The quality seems very good, without tearing or anything of the kind throughout the process even though I lifted the paper and pressed it back into place multiple times in some spots because I was learning. Overall, it went up well and looks amazing. I feel like this product is a good value and would absolutely get it again...and take the time to do this project all over again if I had to.
