I recently did something I’ll probably never do again. I’m joking. Probably.

As part of a quick refresh of our home, I decided I wanted to wallpaper our dining room. I painted all of the other living areas, but I wanted the dining room to be “a moment.” After dealing with decades-old wallpaper in our Arizona house, I vowed not to paste and hang traditional wallpaper.

Naturally, I scoured the internet for peel-and-stick wallpapers. There were a few that I liked, maybe a couple that I loved, but nothing to justify the cost. Expensive, my friends.

I got to thinking…there has to be a way to make any wallpaper removable. So, I did a little more scouring and came across an idea to utilize painter’s tape and double-sided tape to adhere the wallpaper.

Here’s how it went. You start by creating a grid of painter’s tape on your wall, making sure you’ll have a piece at each seam. Next, go back over the painter’s tape with double-sided tape, thus making a very, very sticky surface for the wallpaper. Start from the ceiling and slowly work your way down using the wallpaper smoothing tool. This tool also makes the perfect straight edge when trimming excess. I used the liquid seam repair in areas where I had to pull up the paper to make adjustments or areas where the seam didn’t lay perfectly flat.

Here are the tools I used:

First, I have never hung wallpaper, and it took a lot of patience to get the pattern to line up. Since I was hanging the wallpaper dry, it was hard to make sure it was smooth, and there wasn’t much play or room for error.