If it was in the whole kitchen I'd have painted over it long ago. Thank goodness it's just the back pantry, and not really visible from... well, anywhere but directly in front of the door to that space.
Based on what was done to my hall bathroom before we moved in, paint over wallpaper has the potential to look icky fairly quickly, and it makes it very hard to remove later. Depending on the wallpaper, it might not be very hard to remove. We took 4 different kinds of wall coverings out of our house, with wildly varying levels of difficulty. I don't recommend the tool that scores the wallpaper all over so that the remover can soak in more easily, because it meant the paper came off in lots of little bits that needed individual attention rather than one big sheet. The Dif remover gel, however, was awesome.
Wow - that's as bad as the duck border my old bedroom had. It had 6" high paired ducks, looking at each other, all around my room. I drew an executioners hood on one, and gave him an axe, then a blindfold and cig to the next; just on one pair, but it made it more tolerable until I could strip it off.
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Based on what was done to my hall bathroom before we moved in, paint over wallpaper has the potential to look icky fairly quickly, and it makes it very hard to remove later. Depending on the wallpaper, it might not be very hard to remove. We took 4 different kinds of wall coverings out of our house, with wildly varying levels of difficulty. I don't recommend the tool that scores the wallpaper all over so that the remover can soak in more easily, because it meant the paper came off in lots of little bits that needed individual attention rather than one big sheet. The Dif remover gel, however, was awesome.
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But wallpaper? Erm, no.
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Good luck!
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