DECORATIVE BORDERS
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1. If you’re stuck for design ideas, select a paper border from your local painting and decorating supplier. There are a vast array of styles to choose from and you should easily find what you’re looking for. Choose a wall paper for your borders wall paper project that's pre glued, difficult to tear, flows with a rooms color or style and will have the least amount of discarded pieces when lining up the pattern. The less intricate or lined a pattern the better, especially when trying to work with uneven wall corners. Also, if you don't have them, purchase a wetting tray along with a utility knife, spare blades, sponge, wash bucket, pencil, measuring tape and a smoother for removing air bubbles. Ask your store clerk for decorating, measuring and application advice.
2. Be sure the room is prepped with drop clothes so that glue doesn’t drip from the paper onto your furniture and carpets. Set the dipping tray on a covered table in a fashion that lets you easily apply your borders wall paper design. Try and drop as little glue as possible from the paper onto your painted wall when hanging the border of your borders wall paper job.
3. Follow all application instructions. The amount of time wall paper sits in a tray of water and its booking duration (folding) can vary for each type of paper. Be sure the glued part of the back of your borders wall paper is thoroughly submersed in water prior to application.
4. Measure and cut your paper according to the length of a walls edge or corner. Have the paper bend into or out of a corner and lay onto the next wall by about an inch. Line up the patterns in the corner of your room as you hang the next cut piece. I prefer to paper each individual wall with the inch overlap because wall corner tend to be imperfect and crooked. If you wet a long length of paper then try applying it, you may have difficulty bending the paper over or into a walls corner. It may also be impossible to line up your corner, border and ceiling edge as you proceed to the next wall.
4. The moistened glue makes the border slippery. Push it into place with your fingers. Make sure it's flat, level with your ceiling and has no bubbles or wrinkles. Use a wall paper smoother if necessary as you apply your borders wallpaper design.
5. If you can tell where you've aligned and overlapped your border, in a corner or mid room (due to insufficient length) use a very sharp new utility blade. Cut through the middle of your overlapped paper (don't mark the wall below the paper). Remove and throw away any excess pieces. If you've lined up the overlapped patterns they'll flow together evenly after the paper is cut. Use a new blade edge for each cutting (a dull knife will bunch the paper together).
6. Apply the rest of the measured paper to your walls. As your doing so, use a damp (not wet) clean sponge to remove glue that may have dripped onto the painted surface or is at the edge of your border. Be sure your bucket of water and sponge stay clean or you'll be smearing glue around the walls surface. If your not diligent about removing excess glue you may need to wash all of the room walls once you’re done.
7. If you'd like, use some of the extra pieces of border to wrap light switches and plug covers. Apply the paper as if you where wrapping a birthday
present. You may wish to practice on an old switch and plug plate to find the proper technique.
You should now have a beautifully compleated, borders wall paper project. If you’re ceilings are not stippled you may want to apply borders to them instead of the walls. Cut the paper at an angle in the corners of a room as if you where making a picture frame. A border can also be applied along the middle of a wall (use a measuring tape and level pencil line) or around doors and windows. If you decide to do any of these alternatives apply a section or two of dry paper using some painters tape. Hang your border using the tape then stand back to see how it will look. By doing so you’ll know how high it needs to be from the floor or if a borders wall paper design is to gawdy looking around the windows and doors.
If you’re looking for interior design schemes other than a borders wall paper project, or you'd like to do some work to the exterior of your house, click the home link. You should find a decorating idea by reading the text. If I've missed something or you’d like to ask a question email me. Your address will be held in the strictest confidence. I'll also try to answer you in as prompt a manner as possible.
