Monthly Archives: April 2015

Wallpapering — some tips from experience.

Wallpaper comes and goes in fashion.
Currently, it is common to find people wanting just a ‘feature wall’ papered usually in a dramatic pattern.
Bear in mind:
Traditional papers expand when pasted.
This means that any small bubbles or wrinkles will disappear as the paper dries and shrinks. But it can also mean that each length shrinks away from its neighbour leaving a tiny gap allowing the underlying wall to show. If the colour is dramatic and dark then these gaps will stand out like a sore thumb because the underlying wall is likely to be light in contrast.
Paste-the-wall papers are becoming popular for bold feature wall designs and can help in this regard because the lengths have no time to expand as they are offered onto the pasted wall. But these papers can remain quite stiff to work around intricate corners or detail so they are really only suited to plain feature walls in case you thought of doing a whole room.
Another draw back with paste-the-wall paper is papering onto a lining paper since the moisture content of the paste will cause the lining paper to bubble as the wall is pasted ..although the lining paper should dry back.