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Well, I could just tear the paper up without messing around with all that paste first... (Wallpaper Hanging)

jeremy13

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Wallpaper Hanging

Date: 13/03/01 (170 review reads)
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Advantages: Lovely warm texture when finished...

Disadvantages: ... if it ever gets finished

Aaaaauuurrrgghhh!!!!!!

We spent nearly three hours trying to put some lovely paper on the wall and ended up with just one small sheet above a window that we're happy with.... we just couldn't get the second sheet right!

First lesson learned, keep the Stanley knife away. Second lesson, ignore what it says on the packaging of the rotary knife B&Q will sell you - I guess scissors are the only way to go, but it needs to be exact otherwise you get millimetre gaps of wall showing at the edges, very untidy.

I am so looking forward to having the room complete but find myself considering paying someone professional to do it rather than waste the same money trashing perfectly good rolls of wallpaper. I phoned my Mum for advice and she said that she and Dad usually ended up throwing things at each other and wrapped more paper around each other than went on the walls - so probably not a skill prevailant in our family then!

One word in future... "Paint" :o)

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biker30

- 19/08/01

That was your first mistake, you never start papering over a window.Always start in a corner by a window and work away from it.Once you have got the hang (sorry, no pun intended) of doing it right, you will see that the joints will have dissapeared as if by magic.Get the very first sheet right, the rest will follow.As for the stanley knife, if you are going to use one of those to cut your edges you should also use a spatular, i.e. a small piece of formica as an edge.Hold the spatular tight against what ever you are going to cut, make one swipe,but always make sure you use a sharp blade.Hope this helps for any future job's you may try. Regards.Paint & Paper.
Shazzy

- 11/07/01

Very good tip Plumptious. I'll remember that next time I have to re-decorate.
Plumptious

- 17/03/01

Trade secret - if you do end up with tiny gaps and don't want to do it all over again, paint the gaps with a colour as close to the paper as possible.

OK, not ideal. But remember, the alternative is doing it again!

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