Then you fold the wallpaper strip over on itself. I don’t want you to think all I wear are these pajama pants. I realize these are the same pajama pants I wore in this post as well.

It gets really slippery and gooey as the paste “activates” or whatever it does.

We loosely rolled up the wallpaper with the pattern on the inside and submerged it in warm water for about a minute. We measured the height of the wall and added four inches, then unrolled the wallpaper and cut it to that length with a pair of scissors. Our wallpaper is pre-pasted with something called SureStrip, which is supposed to make it easier to remove later too. (It was rolled up in the middle of the wallpaper roll, so it didn’t surface until later in the project.) This wallpaper came with a one-pager of instructions, which I didn’t even know existed until we were halfway done with the first wallpaper strip. I couldn’t believe he still just started installing it with me, seemingly unconcerned that we had no idea what we were doing. I googled it once, so I have a pretty good understanding– No, I have no idea. I’d been begging Andy for a few days to help me install the wallpaper, and finally one day the time had come! This conversation happened:Īndy: Are you ready to install the wallpaper tonight?Īndy: Do we have all the tools you need to install it? Everything prepped and ready?Īndy: You did all the research and you know how to install it, right? That’s the Anthropologie Peony Wallpaper, btw.īy all accounts, that wall should not have turned out as well as it did. This is what that back wall looked like before and after the wallpaper installation: If you haven’t been following along, we just redid my closet. So, obviously I’m in no position to make overarching statements, when the closet is my only experience wallpapering anything, but this was the one DIY job in a million that actually went easier than expected, so you might have to forgive my sudden, disproportionate wallpaper swagger. And your husband does most of the work for you.And your wall is PRECISELY two wallpaper widths wide, so you don’t even have to cut it.Of course, this assumes you’re working under the following conditions: Whoever said wallpaper is hard to install lied.

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