Covering old textured and painted wallpaper

[Kitty99]

I'm hoping someone may be able to advise me. My living room is covered in textured wallpaper which has several coats of paint on it. I want to create a feature wall, using a contrasting paper and I guess I'm looking for an easy answer. Is there a product which is easy to use (I'm a DIY novice ) that will cover up the paper on the wall I want to change, rather than having to go to the trouble of stripping off the paper and possibly damaging the paper that I don't want to change?

 

[Third_Eye]

Take the paper off the desired feature wall. But before stripping, then run a stanley knife down both internal corners and meeting wall to cieling. This create a break for whilst you are stripping the feature wall.

 

[spice]

Please dont attempt to paper over textured paper it will look horrendous, strip it like third eye says, and if wall is krap, then line it.

 

[Kitty99]

Thanks to you both. I hadn't thought of using a Stanley knife to help prevent damage to other walls. I guess I will have to bite the bullet and strip the wall. At least it's only one wall, eh! Thanks again