Hanging wallpaper in a challenging room

This room is a sheetrocked over plaster in a third floor attic to be wallpapered

New sheetrock repairs

The sheetrocker never finished around the windiws or corners. I had to finish the work I also had to repair holes mistakenly left for the electrician

Repairs

I custom cut a good quality paper tape around all the windows for a good long lasting sheetrock repair

Finishing the sheetrock repair

I used hot mud for the coat under the tape and joint compound for a topping for quality sheetrock repair

bellied corners

The corners also needed two more applications of joint compound to make a level surface

Sanding new sheetrock repairs

I use a hand sander attached to a shop vac to prevent any airborne dust from going through your home

Clean the newly sanded sheetrock repairs

This Wooster " Dust Eater " cleans any dust left on the walls that may prevent the primer from achiving a good bond to the sheetrock

Dust Eater

I always dust off all surfaces for a good bond to the sheetrock. Nothing sticks to sanding dust.

Keep the "Dust Eater" clean

every few square feet you have to clean the "Dust Eater" off. I like to vacuume it clean.

Hiding Crooked Corners

You'll see later on that some wallpaper really does hide a multitude of sin, depending on the wallpaper used, the pattern and sheen

Crooked corners

Bad corners are more visible after priming for wallcovering

Starting the paperhanging

After using a lazer level to get my best straight lines. I want to hang this wallpaper with no mismatches. I start at the top and work down.

Wallpaper Matching

I place each piece separately (using the correct adhesive ) to prevent gapping at the corner joins.

Wallpaper Matching

My customer wanted the vines in the wallpaper to match up in both directions, a nice challange

Up side down Wallpaper matching

I am overlapping using the correct adhesive, again to prevent gapping at inside corners. I had to start paperhanging the gable areas at the bottom of the angled walls to keep the pattern correct

Wallpaper Pattern matching

The vines came out pretty nice with some good engineering

Wallpaper Matching

A close-up of cutting around the wallpaper pattern

After the sheetrock repairs

The wallpaper around the windows look fine after the sheetrock repairs

HidingWallpaper lines

I used joint compound where the transition to the angled gable walls to hide the wallpaper underneath

Covering holes

I covered luan with wallpaper to be put over the holes to the crawl spaces

Finished room

Those ceiling lines that were off don't look to bad. The wallpaper pattern matching hides alot

Finished room

Nicely Wallpapered room

Finished room

Another view

Finished room

I left another customer happy with quality wallpaper hanging work