How do you remove painted stencils from wood walls?

Recently moved to new home and the bathroom has a border that was stencil painted. I would like to remove this and use another color scheme in that room. The walls are wood stained and I would like to keep them that way so I don't want to just paint over the stenciling.How do you remove painted stencils from wood walls?
If the stencilling was done over the wood stain and varnish (I'm assuming there was a varnish coat, as it's a bathroom and needs to be water resistant), you might be able to scrape the design off carefully with a paint scraper.





If not you'll have to sand it back to the wood.





If you're lucky you'll only need to do that bit, but you're more likely to find that you've got to sand back and re-stain the whole wall to match colours. This will be a pain, but can be done more quickly and easily with an electric sander which you should be able to hire from a hardware store or similar.





Remember to use a watertight final coat when you're done!How do you remove painted stencils from wood walls?
Most stenciling is done with acrylic paints. There is a product called Goofoff that might be able to help you remove the stencils without hurting the surface below. You would want to do a patch test on an out of sight part of your wall, tho before doing the stenciled area.
There are paint bo-bo remover products....

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