How to Wallpaper

Wallpaper can be expensive, so don't waste your time and money by messing up hanging wallpaper.

Find out how to hang wallpaper, and make a professional-looking job of it...

After years of smooth, painted walls being the height of fashion, it is becoming more and more in vogue to decorate your home with wallpaper.

As well as being bang on trend right now, wallpaper does have quite a few advantages over plain, painted walls…

• Wallpaper allows you to bring more pattern and interest into your home.
• Wallpaper lets you show off your tastes and personality more easily
• There is a wide choice of wallpapers available, to suit every style
• Wallpaper can make a room feel cosier and more homely
• Wallpaper can often disguise imperfections and uneven surfaces on your walls

Of course, wallpaper is not as simple as painting … but the benefits can outweigh the little extra effort you put in.

If you are new to wallpapering, don’t worry, it can be done by a beginner, with just a few easy pointers on how to hang wallpaper…

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Wallpapering is a great way of introducing just that little extra interest into your home...

Most homes and rooms won't want or need to decorate a whole room in wallpaper (although you can, actually, get some very striking results like this!)

Too much pattern, can make a room look and feel 'busy' or crowded and small - which is why it is a good idea to just choose wallpaper for a feature wall...

Wallpapering just the one wall, to make a feature out of it, allows you to use pattern and color to express your taste, personality and style - but without going overboard!

Having a feature wall also brings some focus to your room - and will give you, and any visitors, something beautiful to focus on when you are in there.

Using wallpaper in this way allows you to bring in much stronger and brighter colors than you would otherwise - very useful for bringing together touches of accent colors that you've used throughout your scheme.

You can also use big and bold patterns, if this is what you like, to really make a statement, and to bring some interest and vitality into your room.

I love clean, plain, minimal walls - but they can start to look stark, cold and sterile - so using wallpaper can help address this - and the pattern can help give a bit of extra depth to your walls...

This is the same as using a texture in your decorating - and can really help to give you a much more 'finished' and 'together' style.

Of course, wallpaper has purely practical uses too - and can be used simply to cover or distract from bumpy walls...

Or you might just want to use wallpaper lining paper to give a good surface to paint on...

Whichever way you want to use wallpaper, we've got loads of tips and ideas for how to wallpaper, which wallpaper to use, and practical DIY hints to help you along...

Take a look at our 'How to Wallpaper' pages now...

Finding out how to hang wallpaper will make the job that much simpler, and will give you much better results…

Tips for Decorating with Wallpaper

Find out some easy tips here…

1. Choose your Wallpaper Learn about the different types of wallpaper to choose from, with this wallpaper primer.
2. Measuring and Calculating Find out how to get the measurements, wallpaper sizing and calculations right.
3. Removing Wallpaper Discover how to remove wallpaper the easy way.
4. Basic Instructions and Techniques How to Wallpaper Find out how to hang wallpaper, here...
5. Problem Areas Find out how to hang wallpaper in problem areas
6. Special Techniques Find out about special techniques for hanging wallpapers of different kinds

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