Oh my.

Omg I know where that is.

One room like that might be alright. My mom did the DR with drapes that matched the wallpaper. One wall, btw.

I think doing the whole house like that means you are certifiably insane.

At the turn of the century, this was quite the style. I pulled off 7 layers of wallpaper and 5 layers of ceiling paper off each of the sitting and dining rooms of my (old) house.

I love seeing small areas with great wallpaper, but after all that stripping, I cannot bring myself to put up any new paper!

I too stripped a lot of paper when I moved into this old house. I am going to admit to actually quite liking some of the rooms. There is something nostolgicly sweet about the home.

Some of those wallpapers are really wonderful. I jut don't understand why you get the feeling that they are about to crush you....

I just walked back into my childhood.

Like wallpaper -- but in smaller doses. Looking at the house makes me feel claustrophobic -- i think it's the ceilings that do it.

I have never seen wallpapered ceilings before.

Yikes! I actually like the paper in the laundry room, but don't like it on the ceiling. Someone spent a tidy sum on wallpaper/labor.

I hope they prepped the walls correctly before applying the paper.

This link below with more photos shows some rooms without wallpaper. It appears scrupulously clean, with a lot of potential.

Bedrooms: 4 Full Baths: 3Partial Baths: 1Interior: 3,827
Sq Ft.Exterior: .47
Acres

http://www.livsothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/10-l-722-csnsrn/400-westwood-drive-s-golden-valley-mn-55416

Oh my. That's all in the same house!? The bedrooms are really too much for me to even view. I don't think I could sleep in them.

That is truly amazing! Every ceiling papered. White carpet on the stairs, no less. I've never seen anything like it. It must have been an obsession, lol!

jjam, I agree ... no fear at all, these people obviously love color!

What they have done in a number of the rooms, and what Richard Keith Langham did in the red guest room to some extent is to create a high saturation but relatively low contrast environment. On some level this should be more visually restful than neutral walls and floors with pops of color and lots of high contrast. This should particularly work with the Langham room since the wallpaper pattern in low contrast. But if you look at rooms done in Quadrille /China Seas or Thibaut wallcoverings and matching fabrics they are often very low contrast.

That was my feeling too...like the ceiling and walls are closing in on you. ETA: LOVE that room with the white fireplace and all white ceilings with beams. I actually liked the laundry room with the wall paper.

Those rooms are a great size...then the wallpaper ruins it. :0(

I hate to say it in front of everybody but...I love it. Love the colors, and the "high saturation, low contrast" vibe. Reminds me a bit of the Home Alone house. And I love a nice split-level like this. Could I live with the paper like that? Probably not, but I could until I repainted. I really just think of the poor paper-hanger. I'll bet his quote was hefty!

Here's a question, though: in the blue-flowered bedroom, look at the windows. In all the bedrooms, the windows are the typical height above the floor, so I imagine in this one, the same is true. So, why the cafe curtain hung below them? Take a look, what do you think?

My mother, may she rest in peace, became a rabid over-paperer in her later years. I think it was the classic case of being bored in retirement, coupled with fancying herself to being a good interior decorator. She started simply enough--one accent wall. Not a paper I would have chosen, but not horrible. Then the sickness spread, lol! Every wall in the house got papered. A different pattern for every room. Then she decided they all needed top borders. So she did that in every single room. She thought the borders went with the wallpaper. They did not. THEN she put an accent strip about 5" wide at about chair rail height in yet another pattern that didn't go with the paper or even with the top border! THEN, lol, she decided to wallpaper the fronts of the sliding closet doors in the bedrooms! She used a completely different pattern than on the walls, and then ran a border completely around the frame, yep, in another pattern. So five totally different patterns in the bedrooms! Her last wallpaper effort was to affix strips of wallpaper on top of the wallpaper with little instructions she had written in black calligraphy, such as "guest towels," and "pantry," Oh the humanity!!

If she had seen these pictures, I've no doubt she would've wallpapered the ceilings. To this day I almost throw up when I think about wallpaper! When we sold the house, the realtor told us we'd have to take $10,000 off the list price because of the wallpaper. :-)

While it's an extreme example, over all I did like it. I think most of it was done very well. I am not sure I could live in each of the rooms, but I thought the dining room was very sharp with the green chairs (maybe a bit much) and I really liked the cheery laundry room (though I think I saw yellow hardware on the cabinets which I agree are a tad over the top)..........like the kitchen, and like that bathroom with the cheery paper.

Here is a little background info on the owner.

http://www.startribune.com/homegazing-the-woman-behind-the-wallpaper-house-in-golden-valley/387935542/#1

Thanks for posting the article bergenia. I saw it in the newspaper this Sunday and found it very interesting! It helps put the wallpaper house in context. . .

While all that wallpaper is not for me, I do understand it. My Mom loved wallpaper and totally saturating a room in one color or pattern. What I do love is the house itself. Great bones, as they say. I love Dutch colonials and could totally live in this one, other than the weather being too cold for me to handle.

I love color, I love prints, I love botanicals. I wouldn't mind that a bit, but I do not like the look of a wallpapered ceiling. It does give the "closed in" feel. I don't mind that bold floral look. Not sure I would do it in every room, but more than one, if I had the house for it, to be sure. My house is builders-white in every single room. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. But since I have eclectic taste, white probably looks best with all the art on the walls and around the room, and prints on the curtains and furniture, pillows, etc.

My Grandma, when she finally had a chance to renovate when we finally could move to a separate apartment, not a shared one -she wallpapered the whole apartment. She wallpapered the ceilings too. But-with a different wallpaper. Every room had its wallpaper for the walls, and the wallpaper for the ceiling-that would work with the one for the walls in that room, not match, but just work together; and the ceiling ones all had white background. The living room one was so pretty I didn't quite get why it would go on the ceiling instead of the walls. Well I was ten..:) I voiced my concern to Grandma, but she just smiled.

Ah, also the ceiling wallpapers got these corners, imitating some architectural moldings..and every room got a different one depending on a scheme so it all worked perfectly. It sounds awful; but actually it looked very tasteful and unpretentious. I don't know how my Grandma did that. For real.

Granted, the rooms themselves were much much bigger than bedrooms here. We had a living room and two bedrooms, and we were six people in the family; but the rooms themselves were just larger. I think our bedroom-the kids bedroom, the smallest one-it was the size of my current family room. Maybe bigger.

(went to look at the family room) no, probably about the same size.

Or was it just me much smaller? lol