Ingrain wallpaper

[citation needed] It was also commonplace in the United Kingdom and Ireland from the 1960s onwards, but has since fallen out of favour and become less common there, especially in new builds and more recent redecorations.

At least since the noughties, both popcorn ceilings and ingrain wallpapers have had a reputation for being undesirably old-fashioned, especially if encountered together, and also hard to remove.

Unlike popcorn ceilings, ingrain wallpapers never made major inroads in most other parts of the English-speaking world, especially America.

Ingrain wallpaper has however remained much more popular in Germany and her neighbouring continental European countries, where it is valued for its tendency to hide small dents and scuff marks, and hence is often retained and simply repainted during renovations.

Ultimately ingrain wallpaper can become very difficult to remove once several coats of paint have been applied over the years,[1] but whether that trade-off is widely accepted depends on the country and culture.