Where to start gluing wallpaper in the room

Wallpaper replacement is an obligatory stage of every second repair in a house or apartment. It’s not enough to choose the right material, glue and tools. To get the desired result, you can’t just open the roll and get to work. You need to prepare in advance, as well as decide where to start gluing wallpaper in the room.

Choosing a starting point: why is it so important?

In Soviet times, wallpaper was glued from a window. The canvas was lapped because the material was thin. To make the joints invisible, work began from the window opening. Today the assortment of wallpapers from various materials is huge - from nonwoven to the cork tree. Why is it so important to choose the right place to start gluing?

1. Wallpaper in the room glued in a circle - from point to point. The place to start work in this case is the very first canvas. However, if you act in this way, in the absence of experience it is easy to make inaccuracies, and the last piece may not coincide with the first.
2. The last strip of wallpaper often does not fit the whole, which means that the picture may not converge. Therefore, it is better to choose the starting point of the sticking in an inconspicuous place.

To stick the wallpaper neatly and evenly, you will have to carefully work with the first canvas. If it is glued somehow, the remaining stripes will also lie crookedly. We need a flat vertical for the first strip of wallpaper, since when gluing the next stripes it will become a guide.

Tools with which help determine the evenness of the desired landmark:

• The construction level is a simple and affordable fixture. The longer it is, the better the performance.
• Plumb - suitable for vertical lines.
• The laser level is an expensive, but the most accurate and convenient tool.

Where to start wallpapering in the room: options

There are several generally accepted methods for choosing the starting point:

• from the window;
• from the doorway;
• from the corner;
• from a major landmark;
• from several lines, for example, 2 sides from the window.

The choice of the method of work depends on the characteristics of a particular room.

From the window

The old Soviet method is still used, and often, despite the ability of modern wallpapers to create a seamless coating. The method is popular because people are used to working this way, and the older generation advises the younger to do it.

The second reason: Soviet windows were flat, in contrast to doorways or corners, the curvature of which is sometimes visible to the naked eye. Another plus of this method: the window opening, as a rule, is deformed very weakly and is quite suitable for reference.

And one more argument in favor of the window opening. When gluing from another point, when it comes to the window, the whole canvas with a high probability will not fit near the opening and will have to cut off a strip of the desired width.

In addition, gluing wallpaper under the window is usually very difficult, since there are usually heating radiators. If the work starts from the window, these problems can be avoided.

From the door

Currently, builders, as a rule, strictly monitor the verticality of doors and corners. Unpleasant exceptions are, albeit rare. It is convenient to glue wallpaper from the door for the following reasons:

• the first and last stripes do not have to dock with each other;
• in places such as a corridor or an entrance hallway, a doorway is often the only suitable landmark.
• if there is an unevenness somewhere, the door will close it. This option is optimal when the pattern on the stripes should fit exactly.

It should be noted that even a very even-looking doorway does not hurt to check once again with a good building level or plumb.

From the corner

The angle as a landmark is unreliable, as it is rarely perfectly flat. Therefore, from the corner wallpaper is glued infrequently, in cases where the room is without windows or when the doorway is very skewed.

Sometimes they work like this with an angle: they start not directly from it, but a distance equal to the width of the roll minus 2-3 cm recedes. Draw a vertical line, which will be the origin. This approach allows you to smoothly and beautifully dock the wallpaper in the corner.

From any major landmark

If there are a lot of doors and windows in the room, a large selection of starting points appears. In this case, it is recommended to start from the most voluminous landmark.

From multiple lines

Option for rooms with a large window, from which the wallpaper is glued immediately in 2 directions. To make the joints of the strips invisible, they must be placed above the window, then they will be covered with curtains. Instead of a window, you can start gluing on both sides of the doorway.

What else to look for

To avoid additional problems, you need to consider the following points:

• The ratio of adjacent corners and doors.
• The location of the window openings relative to each other, the entrance to the balcony.
• Placement of heating elements: pipes, batteries, etc.
• Arrangement of furniture.
• The presence of other important interior details.

If the room has a stationary cabinet, which is not planned to be moved to another place in the future, you can start gluing it, so that the joint of the strips is hidden behind it. The same goes for the headset in the kitchen.

How to mark a flat vertical on the wall with improvised items

Work order:

• We select the floor-to-ceiling rope.
• We make a loop at one end, hang the load on the other.
• Rub the cord with chalk or paint.
• We hammer a nail under the very ceiling, we tie the rope.
• We hold the cord by the weight below, pull it slightly and release it - an even trace of paint remains on the wall.

Respect vertical in uneven corners

This is especially important if there is a geometric pattern on the wallpaper that should match. To comply with the vertical there is a proven way. When wallpapering on each wall, it is worth marking a new vertical line using the method described above. In this case, the last strip of wallpaper on one wall will go a few centimeters to the first fragment to the second.

Useful Tips

Recommendations that will help simplify the gluing process:

• Wallpaper for batteries and vertical heating pipes is better to glue immediately, while there is fresh energy, so that then you do not suffer.
• Before work, you need to de-energize the apartment, remove the covers from outlets to glue the canvas directly on them. After the wallpaper dries, the holes are carefully cut out and the socket housings are put back in place.
• Seal uneven joints near the ceiling using borders.
• When working with external corners, it is good to use a special plastic corner to the color of the finish.

The choice of the correct “reference point” and the strictly vertical orientation of the stripes are key conditions for a neat and high-quality finish.