HOW TO WALLPAPER A WALL WITH DOORS AND WINDOWS
Surely you have already seen many tutorials and read many tips on placing wallpaper, both on our page and on any other. It is important that you inform yourself if you are going to do it yourself, because we do not want something that we are going to see every day to look bad.
That's why today we want to talk about what to do when we find doors or windows on a wall. Don't worry, it's easier than it seems, you'll just have to be a little more skillful and, above all, press the wallpaper from the end towards the door or window frame.
Step by step to place wallpaper on doors
We will start with the doors, which you will find in each room, although sometimes we only install the paper on one wall. Our children's bedroom, for example, can have children's wallpaper to give it more joy and fun, and we must take care that it looks good.
We will start by aligning the pattern of the strips so that it looks good, and we will start pressing from the highest part of the ceiling. You can use your own hand, but we recommend doing it with a wallpaper brush, as this will give you a smoother paper without irregularities.
With the edge of a ruler or the non-cutting part of a pair of scissors, lightly mark the door frame on the wallpaper. Be careful not to damage it, do it gently and without cutting tools. Now cut what is over the paper, leaving about two or three centimeters from the marked line as an overlap. It will be easier if you lift the edge a little.
With this excess wallpaper already removed, make a small cut in the corner of the frame, with the idea of being able to fold this overlap following the structure of the door. Finally, press the paper with a specialized spatula or a simple ruler to secure it. Now it's time to cut the overlap that has been created along the frame and finish the details.
Cut overlaps and add more strips
When the first strip is placed, we will have a small projection of a couple of centimeters if we have measured correctly. Using a wallpaper knife or a cutter and the help of a ruler, make the cut so that it completely covers the wall. but without mounting on the door frame.
When you have this ready, it will be time to install a new strip in the upper area of the door, which is probably no more than 30 or 50 centimeters high. Depending on the width of your door you will need one or two, but that won't be a problem. Remember to align the patterns and leave 2 centimeters on the ceiling and another two on the frame.
Again, fix the paper to the edge of the frame as we explained in the previous section, and cut the excess. You will only have to, depending on the size, place the strip of wallpaper on the other door frame. Follow the previous steps exactly the same, and you will have already overcome this challenge.
Install wallpaper on windows, folding inwards
Now that we have seen how to overcome the doors, it is time to face the windows. As usual,measure everything well and cut the strip you need, always keeping in mind the pattern you should follow.
As we did before, but towards the inside, we must leave a little overlap so that the edge is clean. With two centimeters you will have enough to carefully cut the excess both under the lintel and at the top of the sill. This way, we will be able to adjust the wallpaper to all corners.
The next strip will be placed in the area of the window lintel,so it will be placed above the previous one and respecting the pattern. For this, it is important that it is low-weight wallpaper, otherwise we risk having an unaesthetic appearance.
In the case of thicker wallpaper, such as vinyl, you would have to resort to what is known as double joint cutting. In this way, you will complete the entire edge of the window just like you did with the door.
