Wallpaper and Wallcoverings - ceiling border
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rheffner
05-10-02, 11:02 AM
There's got to be an answer for this, but I'm just riddled.:confused:
I've chosen a border I'd like to use in my bedroom ceiling. It is trimmed at the bottom so its not a perfect rectangle and follows the flowers. Thus the vertical size isn't constant. Repeats about every 21".
Because this is going around a ceiling, I have no breaks for windows or doors. When I get around to the end...what happens if I'm not fortunate enough for my pattern to align to where I started? If the border wasn't trimmed at the bottom, I guess I could live with a non-matching pattern in a corner, but with the trimming, I feel it will really be noticable. I could end with a long section butted up against a short one.
How do I do this?
Thanks,
Rita E
New Jersey
I've chosen a border I'd like to use in my bedroom ceiling. It is trimmed at the bottom so its not a perfect rectangle and follows the flowers. Thus the vertical size isn't constant. Repeats about every 21".
Because this is going around a ceiling, I have no breaks for windows or doors. When I get around to the end...what happens if I'm not fortunate enough for my pattern to align to where I started? If the border wasn't trimmed at the bottom, I guess I could live with a non-matching pattern in a corner, but with the trimming, I feel it will really be noticable. I could end with a long section butted up against a short one.
How do I do this?
Thanks,
Rita E
New Jersey
Wallpaper
05-10-02, 01:54 PM
Seems so hard, does it not, but the solution is simple. This technique applies whether you are talking about a pattern miss match or as in your case, the bottom portion being scalloped or whatever the case is.
It has to do with engineering. You figure out where in the room the pattern error will fall. Most of the time I will engineer it so that the error will show up in the corner "behind" the door. Since I can't see your room, you will have to decide. Maybe there is a better, less conspicuous spot depending on the architectural features of your room. This spot is known in the industry as the kill point. There will be a miss match here, unless you are mega lucky and the distance around your room is perfect (which it never is). :p
You would start your border butted to the corner behind the door. Then proceed right to left until you end in the same corner on the right side of your first strip. Thus, you will have a complete border with the kill point in the most unobtrusive location.
Since you border is trimmed out at the bottom, you really cannot double cut to hide. With untrimmed borders, you can overlap the borders and double cut through them. You reach underneath and remove the scrap, and you have an invisible seam that blends the miss match pattern. Since your border is cut at the bottom, using this method hides the pattern, but amplifies the bottom missmatch. That is unless you want to spend your whole day trimming the bottom junction to make it look OK. It will never be perfect though.
In a case such as yours, I would definately choose the traditional kill point method. You can try double cutting, but if errors occur, you have just ruined one or two spools of border! :eek:
Best of luck!
It has to do with engineering. You figure out where in the room the pattern error will fall. Most of the time I will engineer it so that the error will show up in the corner "behind" the door. Since I can't see your room, you will have to decide. Maybe there is a better, less conspicuous spot depending on the architectural features of your room. This spot is known in the industry as the kill point. There will be a miss match here, unless you are mega lucky and the distance around your room is perfect (which it never is). :p
You would start your border butted to the corner behind the door. Then proceed right to left until you end in the same corner on the right side of your first strip. Thus, you will have a complete border with the kill point in the most unobtrusive location.
Since you border is trimmed out at the bottom, you really cannot double cut to hide. With untrimmed borders, you can overlap the borders and double cut through them. You reach underneath and remove the scrap, and you have an invisible seam that blends the miss match pattern. Since your border is cut at the bottom, using this method hides the pattern, but amplifies the bottom missmatch. That is unless you want to spend your whole day trimming the bottom junction to make it look OK. It will never be perfect though.
In a case such as yours, I would definately choose the traditional kill point method. You can try double cutting, but if errors occur, you have just ruined one or two spools of border! :eek:
Best of luck!