Novice needing advice! How to paint the wall "propperly"

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Hi, so moved into a place and want to repaint the living room. Unfortunately one wall has wallpaper and the rest are painted white. The wallpaper one is long striped texture and not linen backed? from what I understand.

So my questions/problems are:

1) Can I paint over this without seeing the texture through the paint? (And if so, do I just have to give it multiple coats? - would multiple coats make the other walls look different to the wall with multiple coats?)

2) Should I use a steamer and remove the wallpaper and then paint instead? Would this damage the plasterboard under it therefore making the paint over it option safer?
 
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I'm in no way an expert here but if the wallpaper looks like a good surface free of any lumps or whatever you could paint over it - but probably need to use Zinsser or similar first if you don't want the pattern to show through. It will probably have a different texture depending on the paper itself but shouldn't be too noticeable if its a lighter colour

Otherwise, I'd imagine if you used a steamer you'd still have maybe wallpaper paste on the wall to get rid of and prep the plasterboard wall which could be messy and quite delicate, it seems like the proper way to do it but a lot more hassle
 
If you don't like the wallpaper, strip it and repaper with something you do like. Walls don't have to be painted.
 

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