I absolutely love this paper however, it did not stay up and it appears to shrink. Our walls were mudded over and made smooth and dust free when we put up the wallpaper. It stayed maybe 3 days then the top began to come down. We pushed it back up and smoothed it out but the edges did not meet up. We have put up wallpaper many times over the years so we are not inexperienced. There were no gaps when we first installed it. After it started coming down a second time we used an adhesive but the seems would not stay together. Every piece ended up gapping at the seem no matter what we did. As if the paper shrunk after the adhesive dried.