Sorry, I wouldn't do it. You are going to see the lines between the sheets among other things, unless that is not an issue. Drywall can be fixed.

Lots of people will tell you not to do it but if the wallpaper is stuck on tight enough it can be done. I worked for hours trying to remove wallpaper from a bathroom and finally gave up after removing only a small area.

I hired someone to mud over the seams and add texture to the walls (almost all walls have texture here). I primed and painted. This was 6 years ago and you can NOT tell there is wallpaper under the paint. The area where I removed the paper and the rest of the bathroom look actually the same.

It is stuck on pretty tight and I know that the previous owners papered or paper. I was planning on mudding the seams. I also am going to run a thin bead of clear chalk around the trim and baseboards. I going to prime before I paint. I'm not worried about perfection, I fact whoever drywalled this house did a lousy job. I have tape seams that show is a few places, especially corners. I know some would obsess over this, but unless it's extremely obvious, I can live with it.

I did it once on our old house. I swear the paper was applied with cement. After you mud the seams and such, use GARDZ to lock in any residual paste that may loosen. Then prime and paint.

Here is a link that might be useful: Gardz

Yes...mud the wall and that should hide the seams. Snap some before and after pictures to post too.

Once we painted a room that we didn't know was wallpapered in the past and the fern design came through on the long windowless wall but in a white on white kind of way. It looked awesome! I was disappointed that it went away the next time we painted. I wish I could buy cheap ungly wallpaper with "good bones" of design and paint it with the same result!
Kathy

I wonder if you primed it and did 2 coats using a roller with a thick nap would also help...just a thought. ;~)

I'm the queen of doing what one isn't supposed to do, I guess. I've painted over wallpaper, and painted over textured wallpaper, and I've painted over paint that was over paint that was over wallpaper.

I used Kilz primer to make sure the color didn't bleed through, and painted as usual. Never had any problems.

In our last house the previous owners were quite elderly and had wallpaper in the living room with a kind of mural on it, of a plantation house and some trees dripping with Spanish moss, all on a pistachio green background. It was bizarre, and I painted over it with glee.

Good luck, and post photos!

I painted over wallpaper in DM's home. We glued any loose corners and seams, patched nail holes, used an oil-based primer, and painted with latex.

I would not mud the seams if the wallpaper has any type of texture unless you intend to mud the whole wall. Doing only the seams will leave you with a mix of smooth and textured surfaces on your wall. DM's wallpaper had a slight texture which looked really nice after it was painted.

When I was selling my condo I was going to do the same thing, but decided against it. I ripped it out......big job.....and painted. If I had it to do over again I would paper over it using a beadboard wallpaper. ;o)

Well I'll tell you what NOT to do! Okay - I swear it really wasn't my fault. Our walls were so smooth and so old I had no idea that there was wallpaper under the paint. I also have no idea how long ago the paper was painted over. I've painted those babies a gazillion times w/ no indication that there was wall paper underneath. That is until one night I set a humidifier in the hallway and it must have been right at a seam. I awoke to find out that there WAS wallpaper under all of that paint. It warped, buckled and peeled away from the wall. Then it dried that way. It's a stinking mess. Since the plaster is so old it just crumbles so I can't strip it. I think that I will have to do some clever cutting and mudding. Or something.

For any new, first time homeowners reading this thread, may I ask that you please do not think that painting over wallpaper is the proper way to decorate, particularly if you want to avoid longer term problems....as ttodd clearly showed with the example above.

Do it right - remove the wallpaper and fix whatever problems are buried.

Yes, I've stripped plenty of wallpaper in my time.