If you want the two rooms to feel “blended” or connected you will need spend time choosing adjoining room colors.

This is a continued “story”… see this article about painting over wallpaper first.

photo credit: Matt Seppings

Barb… You could do one room in the stripes and the other in the crystal affect using the same colors, or one room with stripes on the bottom only and the other room with stripes on the top or on the whole wall.

They won’t look “identical” but will feel complementary.

Also, if you paint stripes in your bedroom the fact that the seams show in the paper job that is currently there won’t matter. Just make sure that your stripes either end or begin at one of those lines. They will become part of the stripe edge and no one will ever notice!

Yet another option would be to “paperplique” your bedroom.

Take brown paper bags and tear it up in random sections, then crumple them, flatten them out and crumple them again. About three crumblings and you’re good to go.

Use these to wallpaper your walls. The color is perfect (taupe like) and you don’t have to worry about seams showing through!

Stripes and “Paperplique” may not work in your home depending on your tastes and current decor, but your options are unlimited in what you can do with the two colors you have chosen.

The most important thing is, yes, unfortunately, you will have to remove the rest of that wall paper that someone started to pull off.

Now… get to the paint store and have fun choosing adjoining room colors!

Hope this was helpful…

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