James M. Tiner: Hi! I'm Jim Tiner, Professional Paper Hanger. Today we're hanging border.
We've estimated, we've examined our border and now we're ready to hang it. Now hanging border is no different than hanging your wallpaper. The preparation is the same, the way we activate the paste of the paper is the same, it's just where you decide to put it. 90% of the time, it's used to hang around the ceiling. However, you can use it at chair-rail level. You can use it to accent anything you want to bring attention to in your room.
In this case, we're going to be hanging around the door. But basically, I want to show you how to cut it and to install it. So I've hung the first piece. It's all smoothed out. You notice that all your pattern is up, it has to be up. However, when you hang, your next piece that goes down to the side of the door -- and again, this is for demonstration, we want to keep our border going in the same direction. You'll see that the birdhouse or the watering cans are going the same way. However, you'll also notice that we've gone past the top of our door, so that it extends past the width of the border.
You can use your vinyl smoother or you sweep, and remember, don't push too hard, it's not necessary to push on the wallpaper, because you don't want to push out any of the paste, you want to keep the paste where it should be on the wall. You come down, all the way to the bottom. We've cut our paper.
Right now, what are we going to do with this, you're always going to have a mismatch where this occurs. There is no way to get it to match perfectly, when you're hanging a border. But right now, you're going to need a straight edge, usually, your broad knife or your scrapper or a longer -- in this case, we're going to need something longer, or no matter whatever you use you're going to start right here.
You see where the lines intersect, this is where you want to start, cut through, cut through, and you're going to end up right on the corner of the door, where the other two lines on the bottom of your border intersect. You can see that these are the lines we're concerned about, this we can't do anything about. However, if you pick a pattern to hang, for instance, like a floral, flowers like here are allover the place.
They won't affect the mismatch as much, as something so dramatic as this. So, you have to keep that in mind when you're picking out your border, to pick a floral design, something that is or something that is random. You do a door or a window, the same way you do a door, with the miter, keeping in mind that you're not going to have a perfect match. Make sure you wash your wallpaper.
So, that's how you accent a door or a window. Next, we're going to be hanging it on the ceiling.
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