Wallpapering

[Simon_m]

I am about to wallpaper one wall in my lounge. Having already done one in my dining room with no problems (looks good too) I am pretty confident. This was a flat wall however. There is one thing that I can't get my head around so looking for a bit of advice.

The wall has a pillar that is too wide to cover with one piece of wallpaper. So I will have two inside corners and two outside corners to paper around using two widths of wallpaper, what's the best way to tackle this?

Cheers

Simon

[Simpo Two]

It depends how accurate/straight/parallel the edges are. Chances are they won't be.

I'd start with one width on the middle of the pillar, then butt-joint another width on each side which will (hopefully) cover each side of the pillar and onto the back wall. Those sections will soak up any inaccuracies. Trim them back so about 0.5" is on the back wall. Then you can start with two new widths on the back wall, butting them up into the corners on each side. If there's a pattern then remember to match it.

[spikeyhead]

What Simpo said, remembering that the inside corners are likely to be in shadow so you can get away with a lot of sins right in the corner that only you will ever notice.

[Simon_m]

spikeyhead said:

What Simpo said, remembering that the inside corners are likely to be in shadow so you can get away with a lot of sins right in the corner that only you will ever notice.

Oh no that will send my perfectness OCD off the scale

Cheers chaps, will give it a go. The OH got enough paper to do a whole room so will have plenty to play with if I get it wrong.

[Simpo Two]

One thing - when you're doing the overlap in the back corners, if the paper surface is slightly shiny then wallpaper paste isn't very good - you may need border adhesive on that bit.