Line an area with background and you’ve got instant decoration. From blah to daring in a matter of hours, newspaper could push boundaries beyond what paint can do. It enlivens walls with textures or patterns or your pick. And as a bonus, it masks minor imperfections in plaster and drywall, too.
But as often as homeowners try to hang themselves, they seldom get it right, cursing their paring tiles and mismatched patterns–it’s enough to drive you up a wall. Enter John Gregoras, a pro newspaper hanger out of Somers, New York, with almost two decades’ experience. And, boy, did we learn a great deal – everything from the way he plans the design to how he traces up the last seam. With this kind of insider know-how, papering only got a whole lot simpler.
Greatest Wallpaper Techniques Overview
Layout is your secret when you’re learning how to hang wallpaper. Paying attention to the sequence in which the newspaper goes up ensures your pattern will remain roomgood.ru well-matched and look straight. John Gregoras recommends working in one direction around the space to keep the pattern consistent.
But no matter how good your technique, the pattern between the first and final strip will seldom match up. For that reason, Gregoras always begins his job behind a doorway, papering out from the corner until he reaches the distance above the door– the least conspicuous spot in the room.
Very often, the last strip of paper on a wall isn’t a complete sheet. Another wallpapering suggestion Gregoras uses is to constantly paper the corners together with broken sheets.
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Apply Wallpaper Paste
Paint the whole room with a wall mounted primer/sizer.
Unroll the background. As you do, check out defects and drag the paper from the edge of your worktable to take away the curl.
Cut in precisely the exact same region on the replicate so patterns on adjacent sheets will lineup.
Lay a cut sheet onto the table, face down. With a paint roller, apply a thin film of clear premixed wallpaper paste on the back of the newspaper.
Suggestion: Do not allow paste to have on the desk or it will mar the next sheet (wipe it off with a barely damp sponge when it will ). Slide the paper all the way to the border of the table to use paste to the ends and borders.
Novel the Paper
Twist the pasted back of this paper onto itself, bottom and top ends assembly in the center. Guarantee the side borders line up perfectly. Smooth the paper on itself as far as you can without creasing the springs.
Place the paper aside to allow the glue to soak in and the paper to relax. Be sure to adhere to the exact booking time advocated on the wallpaper’s label, which differs based on its content (much more for vinyl-coated wallcoverings, less for uncoated papers).
Align First Strip
Start in a corner near your doorway. If the door is far from the corner, then draw a reference line parallel to the door near the corner.
Unfold the top of the reserved paper and hang it on the wall. Overlap roughly 2 inches at the ceiling and 1/8 inch at the corner. Lightly press it in position.
Unfold the bottom of the novel and let it hang. Check the measurement between the paper and the door casing or benchmark line. Adjust the paper to help keep it parallel to the door but nevertheless overlapping at least ⅛ inch in the corner.
Tuck and Reduce the Paper
(Don’t press so hard for you to push out glue.)
Trim the excess paper at the ceiling: Push a 6-inch taping knife to the joint between the ceiling and wall. With a razor, cut above the knife to cut the excess. Work gradually. Alternate between moving and cutting the knife. Don’t slide the knife and razor together. Keep on papering to a point over the door.
Continue Papering
On the adjoining wall, then draw a plumb line (if there is no door or door ).
Hang a strip in the corner. Overlap the existing bit on the adjoining wall by 1/8 inch. Quantify to the plumb line and adjust the paper to keep the distance equivalent. Smooth the paper. Trim at the ceiling and trim the corner.
Hang another strip of newspaper. Unfold the surface of the novel and place it on the wall. Match the pattern as closely as possible, leaving just a hair’s width between sheets.
Tip: Push out air bubbles by sweeping the newspaper smoother from the middle out to the edges. Wipe off glue on the surface using a sponge.
Close to the Seams
Gently press on the surface of the paper into the wall. Then gently roll the seam using a seam roller to flatten down the borders.
Unfold the bottom of the sheet and complete fitting and shutting the seam. Then tightly roll down the entire seam, working a full 3 inches in from the edge. This locks the seam, keeping it from opening as you smooth the newspaper.
Smooth the whole sheet. Continue papering the space, trimming and overlapping corners as shown in Step 5.
Tip: If the booked end of this strip starts to dry out until you hang it, then wipe the wall with a damp sponge. This will remoisten the paste when you hang the paper.
Cut in About Moldings
At doors and windows, let the paper float the molding by an inch.
Gently run the razor out of the molding corner out to the edge of this paper. Use the molding for a guide.
Press the cut edge tight in the joint between the molding and the wallsocket.
Smooth down the entire sheet.
Suggestion: Mistakes are unavoidable once you’re learning how to hang wallpaper. Hide small cutting mistakes on darker papers by bleach the wall or the white border of the paper using a mark that matches the paper. Some pros even color all of the paper’s borders so seams aren’t as evident should the paper shrink as it dries.
Cover Alter
Paper the cover plates of electric fixtures to make them disappear. Cut a sheet of wallpaper bigger than the plate. Cut out of the part of the pattern that matches the paper onto the wall around the switch.
Apply paste to the plate, then put it face down on the paper. Hold them both on the wall and then adjust the paper to match the pattern on the wall.
Hold the paper and turn the plate . Cut off the corners 1/8 inch away from the plate. Wrap the paper above the plate and then tape it on.
Cut out the switch or receptacle holes using a razor. Make Xs in the screw holes. Screw the plates back to the wall.
