Up until very recently, when I thought about a house with ‘good bones’, I came at it from a place of how the home looked to me.

I asked my colleagues Leesa Mayfield of Leesa Mayfield Architecture and David Logan of Vintage Building what the phrase ‘good bones’ meant to them. In our third installation of our A Home With Good Bones series, we discuss the construction techniques and next-level choices homeowners can make whether they’re starting from scratch or renovating any age of home.

For anyone who grew up with a lot of it, or even just a little bit, but it was not their taste - or certainly for anyone who has ever stripped it on their own -  wallpaper can be viewed with a little skepticism.  Yet it has never been more relevant, more transformative, or varied.  

Here is my advice for picking wallpaper that will please your senses year after year. But, first, the things you need to get over.