This is the second time we've purchased these decals! We used them in our sons room while living overseas, and intend to put them in his room again once we move into our new home. Putting them up is time consming as they are large and there are lots of them, but the overall effect is lovely (we put them on all 4 walls rathen than all on one!) When removing them from the walls from our apartment overseas, they did remove the paint as well, but I can't confirm whether this was a result of the decals or the cheap paint we placed them over!