Wallpaper isn’t your enemy anymore May 6, 2026 at 7:01 am Updated May 6, 2026 at 7:01 am Over the years, wallpaper has been all the rage. Step into a house renovated from the 1950s to early 1990s, there is probably a lot of wallpaper. Current generations remember the sticky, smelly glue that soaked into your sheetrock and ruined anything it touched. As we turned into the mid to late 1990s, wallpaper began to fall out of favor. Homeowners began ripping it down, dealing with the price tag-like paper that left glue everywhere. They steamed, they scraped, they wet the walls with wallpaper stripper. Anything that would help peel the stubborn paper and glue off. Nowadays, wallpaper is back and better than ever. The new wallpaper does not apply the same way as it used to. There are two methods in which wallpaper can be applied. Either paste the wall or peel and stick. It used to be that the installer had to soak the paper to activate the adhesive.…