Grasscloth wallpaper has been wildly popular in the past and it's making a huge comeback. There are few things you can put on your walls that stack up to the sensationally chic quality of grasscloth wallpaper.
No matter the color, room, whatever — it looks so super chic and adds a welcome infusion of texture to a surface that is often smooth - the walls. Once, grasscloth wallpaper typically dressed up a room but in these modern times it doesn't necessarily read as formal.
Use grasscloth wallpaper in a nursery, bedroom, dining room — you name it, it works. It creates a super gorgeous and decadent atmosphere that can be well worth the money.
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It's wonderful, unless you have cats who like to scratch, I had to strip a whole room's worth of grasscloth wallpaper! - so - now I'm confining its use to the back of glass door bookcases.
I always wonder with textured wallpaper like this: is there an issue with dust settling on the horizontal surfaces and sticking in nooks and crannies? It looks great though.
I had grasscloth installed in my living room, and love it - no issues with dust, but my house gets cleaned regularly. I also was concerned about my cat using it as a scratching post, but he has shown no interest, luckily!
Too permanent for me, but it is excellent looking!
I love grasscloth, and some of the most beautiful ones are made by Elitis.
http://www.elitis.fr/en/les-collections_mural.htm
Besides the scratching post issue, my hesitancy with grasscloth is that you really have to watch the light fastness of it. I recall many a grasscloth room from the '80s with outlines of dark shapes against a faded wall...
All of the grasscloths by Elitis have "moderate" light resistance, but I can find no explanation of what that means. Does anyone know?
I like it best in photo 5, where it has a more contrasting color and the white painted half-paneling protects it from collisions with feet/paws and furniture.
Picture hook holes, push pin holes, etc, don't show, so you can move art around with impunity.
The first picture is Tommy Smythe's bedroom. I saw it in a magazine a while back and I immediately fell in love with it. I found the fabric for the patterned pillow (haven't bought it yet) and I purchased dark orange bedding (sheets and pillowcases). One day, I will get the grasscloth, too. :-)
I'm sure the material and adhesive have changed over time, but I just had to remove 1970s grasscloth wallpaper from the entire living room of my new home and I would NEVER do that to a future homeowner/tenant. It was a nightmare to remove so I would definitely not recommend it - but maybe its not as big a problem with new grasscloths? Just thinking about the work that went into getting it off the walls gives me hives!!
Love grasscloth! Silk wall"paper" is lovely, too. Can't afford either one, though, sadlly.
@litachaquita3, I think professional installation makes a difference (with sizing, appropriate adhesive, etc.) , as well as using all the proper removal tools if it needs to go (steamer, etc.)