How to measure and paste wallpaper

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Cut your first length of wallpaper so it overlaps the ceiling and skirting by at least 5cm at each end. All subsequent lengths must be cut to allow for the pattern repeat - so that the edges match up and the pattern is even across the wall. For example, if your drop is 240cm and the pattern repeat is 25cm, you will need to cut lengths of 275cm to allow for one whole pattern repeat, plus the 5cm at each end.

Mix the wallpaper paste, following the instructions. If your wallpaper isn't of the super-easy paste the wall variety, use a pasting table and pasting brush, apply paste to the length of paper, working from the centre outwards and making sure the edges are covered. Avoid getting paste on the printed side.

Loosely fold both ends of the cut length of wallpaper into the centre, pasted sides together (without creasing it), before loosely folding in half again. This prevents the paste from drying out before you hang the wallpaper, allowing you to prepare two or three lengths at a time.

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