What You Should Know About Striped Wallpaper

By Author: Vikram Kuamr
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Wallpaper can be a great addition to your home décor. All wallpaper comes in many different styles, colours, thicknesses. It can set off the room that you put it into and make it a real show-stopper. It can set the mood of the people who visit a room in your home due to the colour choice. It has the advantage of showing off your furnishings and knick-knacks to their best advantage. What you should know about striped wallpaper is that it can be a real job to put up.

Measuring is oh so important and this is especially so when using stripe wallpaper. Remember the old adage measure twice cut once; well, you might want to add a few more double checks on those measurements because once you cut you are committed to that length. There’s no going back. Cutting incorrectly can make the difference between another trip to the store for more or, if heaven forbid you paste it up before you measure—don’t laugh it’s been done—you are committed to that mistake or peeling it off and risk ripping it.

Pasting your wallpaper to the wall can be oh so fun. This is the part of the job where you start to feel like ...
... being an octopus would be very beneficial. It is highly recommended that you have more than one person to do this job to save your blood pressure and lower your frustration level. Also having more than one person can make it that much more fun; getting wrapped up in pasted-coated wallpaper is a joy that should be shared with friends and family and just think of the picture opportunities.

The design of your wallpaper is also something that you should take into consideration. When cutting and hanging wallpaper you have to line the design up perfectly so that the end-product has a seamless appearance. This sounds easy but can be very difficult. Striped wallpaper lines may not translate well if the wall that you’re laying it on isn’t flat and smooth. Really, try laying wallpaper over a very bumpy surface such as some of the older houses have for walls; this does really psychedelic things to those lines in your wallpaper. Divots, cracks, and other wall imperfections are also shown through wallpaper so can add to your frustration. Take it from someone who knows; really, really evaluate the walls in the room that you are considering wallpapering before doing so it may save you a lot of anguish later.

Fixing imperfect walls—walls with divots, cracks—can also encompass a whole article. The mud that they recommend that you use to do this makes you feel like it is deceptively easy to fix these potential issues to showing off the beauty of your stripe wallpaper but, stop, don’t believe them. How much mud you spread over these areas, how smoothly you spread this mud, and how professionally you sand this mud, all may become mitigating factors in the appearance of that oh-so-longed-for, beautifully wallpapered wall.

Author Bio.

Putting up Stripe wallpaper takes a lot of patience but perseverance but the results are so worth it. Your 4 Walls has a beautiful range of Striped wallpaper for you to choose from.