Thank you for your valuable feedback and I'm sorry you found it too shiny! I'll let the manufacturers know about your obsevervations. We've used this product on our wallpapers and it worked really well. The varnish is absorbed by the wallpaper and we can hardly detect the varnish on it. Perhaps the varnish doesn't work the same way on all wallpapers. We normally recommend our customers using the varnish on wallpapers purchased not from our company to test the varnish on a small piece of wallpaper before applying it across the entire wall.