Repair yourself: how to glue wallpaper two kinds?

Before you go to practice - a little theory that will help optimize the process!

What are two types of wallpaper?

Combining different wallpapers in one room -quite common reception. Many designers use this trick to allocate a certain zone in the room, visually change the space or simply "revive" the room, pasting wallpaper on the wall, companions. But not everyone knows how to paste wallpaper of two kinds so that they blend beautifully with each other.

The first rule you need to know: You should buy wallpaper from one collection, or close by texture and well matched by color. Also appropriate combination of photo wallpapers with conventional paper or vinyl wallpaper.

Modern manufacturers, both Russian andforeign, release new collections in which the main place is allocated to the wallpaper-companions. These are so-called ensembles ("deuces", "troika" and even "quartet"). Attention buyers are offered wallpaper, made in one style, but in a contrasting color scheme. The texture also can be different, be smooth on one kind of wallpaper and rough, convex, velvety - on the other.

How to combine two kinds of wallpaper?

Before you choose the source material, you need to think about how to paste wallpaper of two kinds in the room so as not to disturb the harmony in the interior. There are many ways of how to do it beautifully.

Option one. Vertical stripes of one type of wallpaper on the spot where attention is focused. For example, wallpaper with a large picture is glued to a free wall, which will not be obstructed by furniture, and solid wallpaper - for the rest of the walls. This option will make the room brighter, and the picture will not be annoying, since monochrome walls "dilute" the brightness of the colors. It is worth knowing that the wallpapering with the wallpaper should start from the center of the wall. To do this, measure the middle of the wall, find the middle of the strip and glue it strictly in the center. Further pasting is carried out on both sides of the central band.

Option two. The horizontal stripes, as it were, divide the walls into two parts. And, down-the-wall wallpaper is usually glued, and the top is pasted with colored ones, but strict restrictions do not exist on this account. If you have previously looked at examples of how to paste wallpaper of two kinds, then, for sure, you have your own version. It's worth sticking to.

The third option. Inserts from wallpaper. A great example: to make an insert from a photo wallpaper, or to make an accent in a certain part of the room with bright wallpaper with a picture. Stands can be several (or one, if it comes to photo wallpapers).

Recommendations for gluing wallpapers

• Before you paste wallpaper of two types, you need to apply the markings to the walls and determine the location of the inserts or colored wallpaper.
• Begin the pasting on top.
• For flizeline wallpaper use a special glue. At the same time, they apply glue only to the walls, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the process.
• Pasting wallpaper on gypsum cardboard requires speed, since the glue is quickly absorbed.
• Surplus of glue is cleaned with a clean rag. For perfect smoothing, use a special rubber roller.
• Joints are carefully combined. The horizontal joint of wallpaper-companions is closed by a border or decorative molding. Vertical joint can be left uncovered, or zadekorirovat cord, rack, curb. For the insertion, the molding, mentioned above, perfectly resembles. In this case, the insert looks like a huge picture in the frame.

When all recommendations are followed,trim the excess wallpaper under the baseboard. After gluing it is recommended to close the windows and doors tightly, not allowing a draft. Now you know how to beautifully wallpaper wallpaper!