Wallpaper and Wallcoverings - how to hang wallpaper with stripes

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fiestyladyII
06-15-02, 09:44 AM
I have selected to walllpaper my bathroom in stripes. I know I have to begin with a chalk line, but how do I keep the stripes straight, as I move from wall to wall.

twelvepole
06-15-02, 05:14 PM
http://www.decoratingden.com/medarch13.shtml

"Working on old plaster walls can be difficult especially with striped wallpaper as the walls typically are not plumb. To work around this, he frequently checked for plumb with a level. He also explained that it is easier to line up the paper from the top down. So rather than only going under our windows and trying to match everything up on the other side, he wallpapered above the window first and then went back and filled in under the window, matching to the wallpaper hung on both sides of it." Ramirez, K. & R. Making a Grand Entrance. Retrieved 15 June 2002. http://www.oldhousechronicle.com/archives/vol02/issue14/projects/entry.html

Avoid hanging the paper out of plumb:

http://www.doityourself.com/wallpaper/straight.htm

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