As others have said the issue is the white edges and they are very difficult to avoid. I ended up colouring edges before putting it up but frankly at this price you should not need to do this. Even then not perfect. Also edges are quite delicate so have to be very careful if you have to wipe off excess paste. Have had much cheaper, dark coloured paper that has been better than this. Very disappointed, looks great from a distance but the closer you get the worse it looks. It is not the wall you can see it is the edge of the paper. Likely to have to replace as it is very annoying. Shame because pattern is good.