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How To Hang Wallpaper
By Leeanne Utiger
Knowing how to hang wallpaper can in the long run save you a lot of expense when you choose to redecorate a room in your house. If you take the time to learn how to hang wallpaper, this will mean you will not have to pay a professional wallpaper hanger to come into your home and hang the wallpaper for you. Imagine the saving in this..!
There are a few things to be learnt when you find out how to hang wallpaper, and all of these things are fairly easy to remember and as easy to action. Before you even consider to hang wallpaper you have to make sure you have already successfully stripped the old wallpaper off the walls of the room you are wanting to hang new wallpaper in. Some wallpapers can be hung over other wallpapers, but make sure you check all of this out thoroughly before you begin to hang your wallpaper, or if in doubt, remove the old wallpaper completely and make sure you are left with a flat surface to hang your new wallpaper on to.
You will need to have a ground sheet, which you can lay over the entire floor of the room where you are about to hang wallpaper. Knowing how to protect other features in the room to be redecorated is also important. A ground cover will in fact protect your flooring, whether it be carpet or polished floors from any wallpaper glue that may drip on hanging the wallpaper to the walls.
When you learn how to hang wallpaper, you will also learn of all the equipment you will need to have on hand to in fact be able to hang wallpaper, without any hang-ups (so to speak). You do not want to get part way through hanging wallpaper and then realising you are missing something you need to be able to finish hanging wallpaper, or even in the first place get started.
You will need: wallpaper glue, obviously some wallpaper, a paintbrush that can be used for the glue, and a low scaffolding set up as a table for the wallpaper to lay on.
Now when you think of the wallpaper, you will have to know how many rolls of wallpaper is going to be needed for the room to be redecorated. Simply take note of the size of the room, and how many meters of wallpaper are on the chosen roll of wallpaper, and ask the assistant in the hardware store for further advice on quantity. They are the people in the best position to help you with this.
Once you have all the wallpaper you are going to need, you can unroll the first roll and lay it upside down (this means, face the pattern side of the wallpaper to the table top) and then paste some wallpaper glue on to the back of this sheet of wallpaper. Do not have the length of this piece of wallpaper too long, yet long enough to reach from the just below the top skirting board to just above the bottom skirting board of the walls in the room you are hanging new wallpaper into. Repeat this procedure until you have successfully covered every wall with the new wallpaper. You will also learn when hanging wallpaper that you will have to match up the wallpaper seams sufficiently, and if the wallpaper does in fact have a pattern on it, that this pattern matches up at these seams and looks balanced. You do not want the wallpaper you have spent all day gluing and hanging to look out of position and messed up.
Now that you have been given a brief run-down on learning how to hang wallpaper, do you think you are up for the task of redecorating a room in your house with new wallpaper?
I say - give it a go, if you get stuck, you can always run down to the local hardware store, and ask for further assistance on how to hang wallpaper, or maybe even call in a professional, someone who hangs wallpaper for a living and knows exactly what they are doing.
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