Hi All,
I’m planning to wallpaper my guest bathroom, and I’m trying to decide if it’s a bad idea to continue the wallpaper above the tub surround. It’s an interior room, but I have installed a new, more powerful fan. I’ve heard both things – that it will peel in no time and that it will be fine. The problem is that I’ve been unable to match the existing shower tile, so if I were to extend the tub surround to the ceiling, it would be obvious where the new tile was added. Thanks in advance!
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Couple of questions. Is the new fan a Panasonic squire cage type or a Fantech inline type?
Is the fan wired to go on when the light goes on or is it separate switch? And this is a guest bathroom so it's not going to get used (shower) everyday?
It’s a square-cage type Panasonic fan that’s on a separate switch. It’s a guest bathroom but also the bathroom for my two kids (preteen girl and toddler boy). I’m primarily concerned because of my daughter’s love of long showers.
Given it's going to be used virtually everyday, I'd recommend painting and using stencils or other decorative painting and not and i repeat not wallpaper. It will peal.
(Andy your back splash is like a desert compared to the humidity in that bathroom).
Put the fan switch on a timer so that it stays on at least 20 minutes after your daughter finishes in the bathroom. Nomorecoffee's idea is a good one and I recommend it because paint above shower tile is the first area to show signs of
distress.
We used a wallpaper frieze for a kitchen backsplash, coating it with dead-flat varnish. It's held up for years.
You don't have to match the existing tile. Could do a stripe along the top of the original layout and add a checkerboard pattern above that with different colors or something so it looks intentional.
Depends on the wallpaper you use. Most porous wallpapers will fail in a bathroom over time. Vinyl papers will not. Don't go cheap on the glue or the wall primer (RX-35).
Frankie
I have seen vinyl wallpapers fail and they are a great mold collector to boot.
I was also facing same problem.Thanks for guidence.I will use good quality primer due to porous wallpaper.
2nd stencil or a decorative paint border.
Wall paper is awful to re-visit. Even to just refresh
the room in a few years.
Stop the hot water - mixers have a limit. Here the code is sort of
low - until you consider all of the steam said teen would generate
if the water were hotter - than code.
A crown molding would be nice ...