Living Room Walls

When wallpapering the skins before hand have to be covered in paste and completely dry before papering can begin.

The wallpaper was patterned which meant it had to be matched up properly and left quite a bit of wastage.

The walls were 8 foot in height and strips of wallpaper were cut exceeding this to allow room for the matching up of the pattern.

Paste was then rolled onto the skins and the paper stuck onto the skin. We started from the middle and worked all the way around. It was a lengthy process as each piece had to be matched up. We also ran out of paper so Jess went to get more. Using a stanley knife the top of the paper where it surpassed the flats was cut off. The paper in places didnt reach the bottom of the wall but this is ok as skirting boards will hide this.

We worked really well as a team to get this done and everyone pitched in.

At the end of the papering we had a slight problem and needed to patch the paper together as it would have been silly to open a new roll for one strip. We also had A LOT of left over paper and it seemed silly to waste it. So by lining up the pattern of two pieces of overlapping paper you could match them up almost seamlessly and get one whole stripe. We did this in the corner of the room so it was not as noticeable.

Henry taught us to do this by lying one piece over another and cutting straight through both pieces. The clean cut would match together and the pattern would fit perfectly.