Is it easy to wallpaper? Got small downstairs toilet to paper cant get anyone to take job on

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So it's small but fairly straight forward with small window to one end, 2 sttaight walls and small sink unit at other. No one van do it for months or havent turned up to quote. So said to DH why not give it a go ourselves.

He said you have to start at the window end and work out.

Any advice would be grateful.

I've only ever painted as wallpaperinf seems like such a faff. A small loo though I'd definitely give it a bash. Just pick a paper without patterns so it's easier to match up.

Just looked at some videos and looks ok to me...also says start in the middle of the wall/room not window. I think we can do this!!!!!!

I don’t work for them, but somewhere like B&Q have been very helpful in the past when tackling something new. Sometimes they have demo sessions too. Might be worth asking, if you have one near you?

I wallpapered by just having a "how hard can it be?" attitude and it turned out alright! My tips for what they're worth:

• choose the kind of paper that means you can paste the wall not the paper (it is much easier as you don't have lengths of soggy paper to manoeuvre around and get tangled up in, especially in a small space)
• probably don't do what I did and choose a very unforgiving geometric pattern unless you have a better temper than me (although it all worked out in the end!)
• have a spirit level and a plumb line
• have very sharp knife and sharp scissors close to hand
• have some scrap paper to practice cutting the shapes if you have fiddly things like pipes to get round. Then when you have the right shape you can trace it on to the wallpaper

Reader's Digest big book of DIY also VERY useful!

Great idea...just looked at one of their online videos. Looks ok I think

Ahh just clocked your username and so you may not be in the uk? In which case you can’t pop in! But they do have advice on their website too www.diy.com/ideas-advice/painting-decorating/wallpapering/PROD_hatpc_100089.htpc

smaller spaces are more of a challenge, especially when you have to work round stuff, but no, it's not hard.

You want the final join to be in the smallest corner, maybe behind a door or place you are least likely to look as that's where the pattern is most likely to be mismatched.

A small pattern repeat is best, what sort of paper are you looking at?

If the walls have not been papered before it is a good idea to paste them, this is called sizeing....watered down paste that you slap on and leave to dry before you start...it stops the wall sooking all the moisture out of the paste on the paper before the stickyness takes hold, if that makes sense

Regardless of this I do tend to paste the wall and the paper, it works for me, but I do it very stingily if I do both.

Try and get decent quality paper, cheap stuff can stretch and bubble and rip if you are not careful.

I learned just through helping my dad, but there's surely "how to" videos on the www now, so have a go!!

I've done all the wallpapering in my house. First few rooms were a little dodgy but I'm fairly good at it now, definitely better than my husband 😁

Argumemts have started DH says start at the window I read start i the middle if a wall. Who is correct Mumsnetters!!!

I think the point of starting at the window is that the seams are less obvious (I seem to remember my mum telling me).

But if you're following the instructions on a video, and you like what they are doing, just follow that. No point falling out over it!

Wallpaper Direct has a How To guide that looks helpful.

guide

I really need to read it through again myself though, I can't remember

Start in the middle of a wall as the window will not be straight. Drop a plumb line down.

Start at least one width away from the corner of the room ( preferably not at the window) make sure you put a level line down so you can get your first piece on straight and it's easy from there. I've just done my hallway, stairs and landing. It's not that hard.

it depends on your paper, if you have a focal wall and a fancy pattern then you want a full width right in the middle of that wall and bugger where the window is! If it is a random all over pattern then it really will not matter.

If dh wants to start at the window let him get on with it!