How to apply photo wallpaper in your bedroom?

Photo Wallpaper is becoming increasingly popular. More and more people choose to have their walls covered with pictures to wallpaper. It looks really nice and it is easier than, say your wall paint. But what is the best way to place your photo wallpaper?

Step 1: Wall Preparation

The wall where the picture should be pasted wallpaper like ordinary wallpaper smooth, clean and grease free. If there are old wallpaper remnants are present they must first be removed with a spatula. Any holes must be filled and smoothed.

Step 2: Prepare paste

Dilute the glue with water. Note that you do not too much glue on the wallpaper picture make. If the wallpaper is wet, there is a chance that it will tear.

Step 3: Prepare for wallpaper paste photo

Since many walls are not completely straight, it is useful to draw guides for applying the various parts picture wall. Draw pencil lines on the wall using a centimeter, a level (for the horizontal lines) and a plumb (vertical lines).

Step 4: Apply photo wallpaper

Make sure you at normal room temparature pasted the wallpaper and that doors and windows closed. Coat the panels with glue and allow it to withdraw about one minute. Paste the individual panels for a while and follow the signed guides. Start with one corner and press the sheets from top to bottom smooth, so that no air bubbles remain. Leave the skins about 2-3 mm overlap.
The wallpaper can be quite thin. Therefore be careful in handling this material, otherwise the risk of rupture. Apply the glue thinly and evenly and do not wet the wallpaper. Gently rub the wallpaper with a soft cloth.

5: Drying

Let the picture wall dry slowly at room temperature and avoid drafts.
The wallpaper image has the property that after applying the glue off slightly, depending on conditions such as temperature and humidity. Once dry, the wallpaper will shrink somewhat. The panels of wallpaper should therefore overlap with each other a few millimeters in application.

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