Wallpapering- where to start, any professional/good decoraters please?

For a large bold pattern such as a damask you need to start dead center or you may end up having a full design on one side and a chopped design on the other. http://www.directwallpaper.co.uk/images/pictures/r... The large grey flower on this pattern needs to end up the same amount of distance from the edge of the wall on the left and right.

You will want to snap a center horizontal chalk line and a center vertical. Then measure over 1/2 the distance of the paper left and right vertically and snap 2 more lines. This will be your first paper guide.

The repeat is only one measurement to consider you have to factor in the height of the wall too. Repeats are worst case scenario for waste overall in your calculation. The larger the repeat the more waste you need to figure. You use a different calculation to have the exact amount needed minus windows and doors..http://www.talktalk.co.uk/home-garden/calculators/...

I like your desire to center the wallpaper. Measure the width of the wall and add 4" (so there's enough plus a little extra to cut off along the edges of the walls -- walls are never perfectly straight) and calculate how many strips of paper you need. If it's an even number, for example, 6, you could mark a vertical line at the center of the wall and put the edge of the paper on that line, then add the remaining strips to the left and right. If it's an odd number, for example, 7, mark your vertical line half the width of the paper from the center of the wall, and line your paper up with that. That will put the center of the strip at the center of the wall.

A repeat is the distance (length-wise) of paper between an exact spot in the pattern and the next time that exact spot in the pattern appears. For a large pattern, it's going to be a relatively large number, like 18" or 24." The larger the pattern, the more extra paper needed in order to match the pattern horizontally. To get an idea of what you'll be dealing with, you can measure the height of your wall with a metal tape measure, then unroll a length of paper and position the tape measure on it. Move the tape measure up and down the length of paper to decide where you want the paper to end at the ceiling. You'll want to cut the paper at least 1" and preferably 2" above that spot so you can cut it along the ceiling. Look at the pattern point at the bottom of the length you'll need for the wall (where the tape measure body is), then look at how far you must go to get to the point in the paper that will match the top of the first strip. That's the excess, some of which you'll will be used at the bottom of the first strip and at the top of the second strip. There could be 12" - 15" or more of extra paper in between because of the large repeat. It will help if you count the number of repeats in the first strip so you know to have that many in every strip and don't accidentally cut the paper one repeat too short or long. In fact, once you're sure of the length of the first strip (hold it up and have someone tell you it's long enough or very gently put a small piece of painters tape on each edge to hold it in place and look at it yourself), go ahead and lay out the other strips, one at a time, beside the first strip, matching the pattern, so you're sure you have the length you need, and cut each strip. They should all be identical in length and pattern position. When all the strips are cut, paper the wall. If they're large enough, the excess pieces of wallpaper can be used to cover small boxes or books or picture mats, if you like. Hope this helps.

First ask yourself "Whats the width of the paper" The wall behind your bedroom door is the starting point. Close your bedroom door. Get on your step stool or ladder with a tape measure. Butt the tape measure to the wall above the bedroom door and measure over the width of the paper on the wall near the ceiling and make a mark.

Take a level and straight edge or T-square and draw a vertical level line down the wall from the mark you made at the top of the wall near the ceiling.

This is a good time now to book a few rolls of paper while your getting ready for business.

Get you seam buster,smoothy,seam roller,razor knife, razor blades, and speed square in your apron.

Take your tape measure and butt it to your level line and measure over to the next wall. (Make a pencil mark every roll width on the wall as you measure to the next wall.) If your happy with the width of the roll that dies into the corner..then start at your level line and work your way to the next wall. If your not happy then adjust your level line to the left going towards the corner behind your bedroom door accordingly to the width you like.

Once you get to a corner...ALWAYS cut the paper in the corner...This is where the REPEAT comes to play. Find the repeat in the next roll of paper and match it to the corner that you just cut off.

If you dont cut the paper in the corners...as the paper dries it pulls from the corner and will give you a rounded corner. Then curious people like to poke at the corner and stick their fingers through the paper!! Grrrrrr So never try to paper a corner!! Always cut the paper in a corner then find the repeat and match it to the corner you cut and continue these steps down each wall!!

I hope this will help!

work away from the window or the light, so it don`t catch the paper joints when it all dry out,

you will get three stip from each rolls, if it is big patterned and it is a repeat,

alway buy extra roll and make sure that it all have same code because it is hard to get same code again if you run out of wallpaper,

most pattens papers repeat from 12" to 18",

look for the arrow on the rolls, and it will tell you the differ in the drop.

mark a straight line on the wall somewhere near the edge, using either a plumb line or a spirit level, hang your first piece up to this line, cutting off the edge up to joining wall, then line up the rest...easy :) the thing with the pattern is so you can work out how much to cut to match it, but it's not always the same amount, you work it out using the drop length etc. Easier just to match it at the top, then cut the length.

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