How To Hang Wall Paper With Half Drop Match

When the strip is in the right position drop down the bottom half and gently smooth the paper against the wall with your hands beginning at one edge and working your way across.

How to hang wall paper with half drop match.

You ll need to lay out the room and determine which strips will go where ahead of time. It requires three strips of wallpaper to repeat the vertical design. This match has design elements which match on adjoining strips. Every other strip is the same at the ceiling line and the design elements run diagonally.

A quick guide to the best way to hang a half drop pattern wallpaper and the best place to start hanging in a room with a bay window. Cut a piece of wallpaper larger than the plate. Cut your second drop to match your first. Unroll your next drop on top of your first and line up the pattern on the side furthest away from you.

Apply paste to the plate then lay it face down on the paper. With a drop match pattern there is a matching pattern at the ceiling that drops between the first and the second strip. Cut from the part of the pattern that matches the paper on the wall around the switch. It takes three strips to repeat the vertical design.

Use a seam roller to gently smooth down the edges of the wallpaper. Every strip will be the same at the ceiling line. A half drop match is a straight match that has been split in half. Trim the excess paper.

Hold them both on the wall and adjust the paper to match the pattern on the wall. In other words if you have two sheets of half drop match wallpaper aligned with each other side by side any point of the pattern on the second sheet will be located halfway between any two consecutive appearances of that same point on the first sheet. This match features more complex patterns and it will greatly depend on the pattern repeat as to how many rolls will be required. The tops of the wallpaper will be the same on every other strip.

Check the label of your paper. A symbol with two arrows opposite one another means it s a straight match pattern where the left and right sides line up. You have two options for this. Half drop patterns repeat at the ceiling line on every other strip and the design tends to run diagonally.

A half drop is paper that has a pattern that shifts exactly half the length of the pattern.