Hanging wallpaper

[Deleted member 9966]

well me and Mr GRR had a bash at wallpapering on Saturday. I was called in to do the pattern matching and alignment whilst he got the difficult job of pasting the wall.

we used the Dulux Feature Wall range Peony in the Pearl colour, as I had already by total accident purchased the Dulux Almost Oyster paint they recommend to match. The whole experience took us about 5 hours from start to finish. Careful cutting and pattern alignment made for an intricate job, but I have to say the pattern didn't always match perfectly. Our biggest mistake was not starting from the L shaped kink by the bedroom door. This left us with 1 inch inside the room before it turned the corner towards the door. doh. We live and learn.

couple of pics for ya

 

[Ian]

I bought our paper at the weekend, we don't move until the 27th May so I've got a few weeks to wait before I can have a go!

 

[user123]

I love wallpapering, have done a lot of it in my life, and learned from my Dad and ex-husband, too, who wall-papered and decorated high-end houses, with me as assistant 🙂

You'll find the pasting table a little wider than the wall paper itself, so put down a few length but stagger them width ways to cover all the table, to stop you getting paste on the table and with that on the surface of the paper. Cover the paper well, no dotting and dabbing!! :lol:

When you've pasted the paper, fold it into threes into itself, matching the edges up so you don't get paste all over every nearby surface. Leave to soak in, no good the paper softening on the wall, and overlap /butt up the wallpaper edges by 1mm while you put the rolls on, that applies to most but not all papers, so when they dry and shrink again a bit you have super neat edges with no gaps in between.
The top edge towards the ceiling is really important, don't try and cut straight and push the wallpaper up to the ceiling, give yourself enough overlap, (keeping that in mind when you cut your lengths) say 10 cm or so to go over, brush and tap the wallpaper right into the ceiling corner, scribe the paper from below gently with the blunt edge of your wall paper scissors or similar, pull the paper off again just enough for you to see the line from the underneath side and cut carefully along that ..that way it follows the ceiling line exactly, anything else will just annoy you forever. Same at the bottom. Really make sure you brush out all the bubbles with a soft broad wallpaper brush, too, as you get better there will be less of them, but don't brush so hard as to damage the paper.

Have a soft damp cloth handy to wipe our hands as you go along, you don't want pasty fingers all over your nice new paper! And enjoy yourself