subject: What To Know About Wallpapering Your Walls [print this page] "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute ones first universe."
Henry Anatole Grunwald (1922-2005), Austrian journalist , diplomat and former editor of TIME magazine .
Wallpapering is one of the most cost-effective and time-tested ways of beautifying your home . In fact, this technique has been in use since the Renaissance in Europe that started in the 14th century when people who couldnt afford tapestries turned to wallpaper as an alternative . It got a fillip when Henry VIIIs break-up with the Catholic Church left the English without access to tapestries, making wallpaper fashionable with the upper classes who had preferred tapestries earlier. When Charles I was deposed, wallpaper fell out of favor, only to reappear strongly with the crowning of his son and legatee Charles II.
In 1712, during the kingdom of Queen Anne, a wallpaper duty was introduced which was not abolished until 1836. Wallpaper made speedy advances in 18th century France with a number of innovative designs. With steam-powered printing presses appearing in Britain in 1813, it was possible to mass-produce wallpaper, reducing its amount and so making it affordable to working-class people. Its reputation has endured for the next century and is even growing powerful .
Wallpaper printing techniques contain boundary printing, silk screen-printing, gravure printing and rotary printing. Mathematically speaking, there are seventeen key patterns that can be used to tile an unlimited plane. All manufactured wallpaper patterns are based on these 17 patterns, also called wallpaper groups. Wallpaper is predominantly sold in rolls and settle onto walls using wallpaper paste. There are a lot of options as away as wallpaper types are concerned - vinyl coated paper, cloth backed vinyl, paper backed vinyl, textile wallpapers, etc. Specialized types for specific functions like acoustic effects also live . prefer the single relevant to your needs.
formerly you have obvious on the wallpaper variety and standard , the next procedure is cutting and pasting. certify you have the following tools handy, as well as a friend to serve you out:
Water trough (if using pre-pasted wallpaper)
Wallpaper paste (if not using pre-pasted wallpaper)
Straight edge
Trimming knife
Sharp scissors
Sandpaper
Plumb line
Pencil
Sponge
Roller or brush
Stepladder
Smoother
Bucket
Table or flat bench
construct careful measurements of the walls with doors, windows and electrical fixtures, and cut off the wallpaper consequently . make use of a plumb pencil-mark to keep things even and mark with a pencil. On a flat bench, shelter the cut strip with paste, or water to move existing paste. Carry the paper to the wall and up the stepladder. Slide the paper across the pencil pencil-mark . make use of the roller to smooth out any bubbles. Work down the middle and then out to the edges. Repeat across the room. For doors and windows, paper up to the frames. Then, crease and trim off any surplus paper.
