Working With Features

Corners

Corners are not usually square. When less than a full width of paper is needed to reach an internal corner:

• Take three measurements between the edge of the last length of wallpaper and the corner at the top, middle, and bottom.
• Add 12 mm to the largest measurement and cut a strip this wide from the next length of paper.
• Hang this strip, turning 12 mm (1/2 in) of it onto the next wall.
• Make a vertical guideline on the next wall that will allow the remaining strip to overlap the 12 mm (1/2 in) margin in the corner. You must mark a new vertical guideline every time you take paper onto a new wall.

On an external corner, repeat the process but allow 25 mm (1 in) to turn the corner. If the corner is true (check with a plumb line), butt the edges of the two strips of paper. If not, overlap them.

Doors

• Cut an L-shaped piece of wallpaper as required, allowing 50 mm (2 in) around the door frame for trimming.
• Hang the paper above the door first, then make a diagonal cut 50 mm (2 in) into the paper at the corner of the frame (the angle of the L).
• This cut will release the paper so that it can be brushed and creased into place before being trimmed neatly around the frame of the door.

Windows

• Cut the various pieces of wallpaper needed to go around a window reveal (recess) before pasting, allowing at least 12 mm (1/2 in) for trimming at the top and bottom of lengths, and ensuring that any pattern matches on both sides of the recess.
• Paper the sides and top of the reveal first, turning 12 mm (1/2 in) onto the outside wall.
• The paper on the outside wall is turned 12 mm (1/2 in) into the reveal to make an overlap.
• If a reveal is less than about 75 mm (3 in) deep, there is no need to hang strips in the reveal, as the paper can be turned into it.