How To Hang Wall Paper With Half Drop Match

A quick guide to the best way to hang a half drop pattern wallpaper and the best place to start hanging in a room with a bay window.

How to hang wall paper with half drop match.

A symbol with two arrows opposite one another means it s a straight match pattern where the left and right sides line up. Use a smoothing brush or damp sponge to smooth out any air bubbles. When the strip is in the right position drop down the bottom half and gently smooth the paper against the wall with your hands beginning at one edge and working your way across. In other words if you have two sheets of half drop match wallpaper aligned with each other side by side any point of the pattern on the second sheet will be located halfway between any two consecutive appearances of that same point on the first sheet.

A half drop match is a straight match that has been split in half. Use a seam roller to gently smooth down the edges of the wallpaper. It takes three strips to repeat the vertical design. The pattern on one side of the wallpaper strip is one half the repeat lower than the other side requiring that the second strip of wallpaper to be dropped until the pattern repeats and aligned across the two strips.

Check the label of your paper. Unroll your next drop on top of your first and line up the pattern on the side furthest away from you. You ll need to lay out the room and determine which strips will go where ahead of time. You have two options for this.

Half drop patterns repeat at the ceiling line on every other strip and the design tends to run diagonally. Cut your second drop to match your first. Apply paste to the plate then lay it face down on the paper. Trim the excess paper.

Cut from the part of the pattern that matches the paper on the wall around the switch. Every other strip is the same at the ceiling line and the design elements run diagonally. This match features more complex patterns and it will greatly depend on the pattern repeat as to how many rolls will be required. Every strip will be the same at the ceiling line.

The tops of the wallpaper will be the same on every other strip. Hold them both on the wall and adjust the paper to match the pattern on the wall. Multi drop patterns take four or more lengths before the first drop s design is repeated as opposed to two lengths for half drop matches. With a drop match pattern there is a matching pattern at the ceiling that drops between the first and the second strip.

Cut a piece of wallpaper larger than the plate.