I love my wallpaper full#
So we would obviously need more than two strips to go the full width of the wall, right? We measured the wallpaper and each strip was 20.5 inches wide. We measured the wall and it was 43 inches wide. This is where things got kind of dumb, I admit it. We used the same little plastic spreaders to press the wallpaper into the corners and crease it at the ceiling and baseboards. I hear you can use a sponge or other things, but you’re just trying to smooth it out and get all the bubbles out, so you have my permission to use whatever you can find nearby that’ll do the job. Then we just started smoothing it out with one of these (affiliate link) because it’s what we found scrounging in our garage. Just makes for easy transport back to the wall where you’re installing.īRILLIANT BUSINESS IDEA! A calendar with photos of good-looking men happily installing floral wallpaper for you. With some kinds of wallpaper, you’re supposed to let it set like that for a few minutes, but not with this kind. Then you fold the wallpaper strip over on itself. I don’t want you to think all I wear are these pajama pants. I realize these are the same pajama pants I wore in this post as well. It gets really slippery and gooey as the paste “activates” or whatever it does. We loosely rolled up the wallpaper with the pattern on the inside and submerged it in warm water for about a minute. We measured the height of the wall and added four inches, then unrolled the wallpaper and cut it to that length with a pair of scissors. Our wallpaper is pre-pasted with something called SureStrip, which is supposed to make it easier to remove later too. (It was rolled up in the middle of the wallpaper roll, so it didn’t surface until later in the project.) This wallpaper came with a one-pager of instructions, which I didn’t even know existed until we were halfway done with the first wallpaper strip. I couldn’t believe he still just started installing it with me, seemingly unconcerned that we had no idea what we were doing. I googled it once, so I have a pretty good understanding– No, I have no idea.
I love my wallpaper how to#
I’d been begging Andy for a few days to help me install the wallpaper, and finally one day the time had come! This conversation happened:Īndy: Are you ready to install the wallpaper tonight?Īndy: Do we have all the tools you need to install it? Everything prepped and ready?Īndy: You did all the research and you know how to install it, right? That’s the Anthropologie Peony Wallpaper, btw.īy all accounts, that wall should not have turned out as well as it did. This is what that back wall looked like before and after the wallpaper installation: If you haven’t been following along, we just redid my closet. So, obviously I’m in no position to make overarching statements, when the closet is my only experience wallpapering anything, but this was the one DIY job in a million that actually went easier than expected, so you might have to forgive my sudden, disproportionate wallpaper swagger. And your husband does most of the work for you.And your wall is PRECISELY two wallpaper widths wide, so you don’t even have to cut it.Of course, this assumes you’re working under the following conditions: Whoever said wallpaper is hard to install lied.
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