Hanging Wallpaper Around Windows
Okay, we have got a little problem here, what you can see is this. I have got the wallpaper at the top and I have it done at the bottom and we are going to have one solid piece that has to wrap around this window frame. Now, the problem you can get into is that if you were just to draw a plumb line here thinking that I am just going to hang this piece of plumb, well, what happens is when you go to hold the paper on that line, and then you eventually end up down here at the bottom, you either might be overlapping that piece or you might be short, that is a nightmare and you cannot allow that to happen. So what do you do? The paper I am using on, this particular job, it is a traditional pre pasted wall paper and before it has any acted later or water put on it, it is 27 inches wide, but you know what happens when you put the activator or water on, paper expands and it expands dramatically. I just did not experiment, we measured it after it was pasted, and you know what, it was 27 and 38 inches, that is a lot. So here is what I am going to do, I am actually going to go down on the wall here and I am going to make a mark at 27 and ½ because I do not want my paper to be right on the pencil line and I will do the same up at the top. I will go ahead and make a mark up here 27 and ½. And I am going to make sure that my paper that the whole long edge all the way down is 1/8 of an inch away from that line and when I do that, both seems top and bottom should look perfect when I am finished. I am Tim Carter for AsktheBuilder.com