I initially thought the detail was white, whereas it's actually darker than it looks in the image. I was a little disappointed, but put the paper up anyway on a feature wall and it looks really great. The instructions are to paste the wall, which I did with the first piece. I've never pasted the wall before and I don't know why that would be a selling point. After the first piece, the remainder were pasted on a paste table and hung 'normally' and I had no problem.