Wallpaper has come a long way

You are excited about your home but you want to make a few changes here and there – add your own special touch. You think you want try you hand at wallpapering a room in your home. Using wallpaper entails being meticulous to details and a large amount of time. Adding wallpaper can go smoothly if take a few tips from the professionals.

The first thing you need to determine is how much wallpaper you will need. You need to be certain that you have enough wallpaper to finish the project. It’s not uncommon to not be able to get the same wallpaper a week later. If you find more of your pattern, it may not be from the same dye lot and the colors may not be exactly the same.

Begin by calculating the height and width of each wall, don’t take baseboards, doors or windows into consideration. Once you have that multiply the two measures to get the square footage of the wall

Do that for all the walls in the room, then add the square footage numbers together to get the rooms total square footage. Now divide the total square footage by 25 to determine how many single rolls of wallpaper you require to complete the room.

Now that you have figured out how much wallpaper you need, you need to make sure that you have the right tools to get the job done. You will need a good pair of scissors to cut the wallpaper, measuring tape and a utility razor, with many extra blades, for tidying the wallpaper around edges.

You will also need a big sponge to rub the wallpaper once it is on the wall, a putty knife and a seam roller to assist in getting the wallpaper edges together in the appropriate place. You should also have a table as a working area, a ladder or step stool and some water in a tray for wallpaper that may be prepasted or wallpaper paste and a brush for unpasted wallpaper.