wallpaper

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As Deby had not long moved into her house, she had used a stepladder to strip wallpaper but that and a few foil blankets became the basis of her lunar lander.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Kennedy praised it as a place where kids can have access to organic food and learn trades like baking, building furniture, or producing wallpaper.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

She has this fantastic wallpaper that she did up the walls, across the ceiling, and turned into drapes.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

In 1957, Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to create a new kind of textured wallpaper by attaching two plastic sheets together, but pockets of air got stuck in between.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Even when he was busiest smoothing down the paste on the wallpaper, or painting the outside of other people’s houses, he would forget what he was doing.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater