The homelink install solves the problem of power, and gives you 3 buttons (but it isn't portable like this one). I guess you could piggy back of you existing switch, but it may cause some problem - don't know enough about it. It is a nice mod, but I think I would get a Nissan VDC switch (but for $20 I might get the radio shack). I'm sure your baby will sit in his crib in amazement looking at his parents' wallpapering talents.I know this is an old post, but since I arrived here I will add my 2 cents. Take the razor blade and cut through both pieces and remove the scraps. Hold the broad knife at an angle following the mitered cut of the door's trim. Again you will overlap the border at the corners. You will have a perfectly matched splice.įor installing the border around a door, you follow the same procedure with one difference: You will have to cut miters at the top two corners of the door. Peel off the cut pieces, push back the border and wipe off the glue residue. Use a new razor blade to gently slice through both pieces of the border. Take a broad knife and span the width of the border where the pieces overlap. Overlap the pieces by 2 inches or wherever the pattern matches up. If the wall is longer than your strip of border, you will need to splice two pieces together. Wipe off any adhesive from the wall with the sponge. Work out air bubbles with a plastic smoothing tool or a damp sponge, and then roll the seam with a seam roller. If you are installing border at the top of the wall, gently push the border against the ceiling. Overlap the corner by one-quarter inch and push the paper to the wall following the level pencil lines. Use lengths long enough so you don't have to splice a piece in the middle of the run. It is best to start in a corner, preferably one on the wall at the door side of the room (it will be least noticeable as you enter). Then fold in the edges, and let it "book" (wallpaper lingo for "rest") according to the manufacturer's recommendations (usually two to four minutes). Lightly fold the border's pasted side in, but do not crease it. Next, unroll the paper slowly, and lay it on the flat surface glue side up. Dunk the roll in the water to get the glue wet.
Loosely roll the paper inside out, so that the glue side faces outward. Fill the paper tray with water and set it at the end of a long, flat surface (a folding table or counter is good). If the sun hits the wall just right, the primer will show.Īfter the primer dries, you can install the border. When you roll this on the wall, try not to let it stray outside of where the border will be. You can roll it on with a small paint roller. This stuff looks a little milky and makes the surface tacky to the touch. You will want to prime the wall with a wallpaper primer for good adhesion. You can choose how high up on the wall you want the border, but for chair rail, the standard is generally between 36 and 42 inches from the floor. However, if you plan to install border as a chair rail, you will need to break out a level and pencil and mark a level line around the perimeter of the room. If you are going to install the border at the ceiling, you won't have to mark any lines as the top of the border will go against the ceiling. Try to find a border you like that is prepasted because spreading paste on paper is a real buzz kill. Wallpaper border, like regular wallpaper, typically comes prepasted. It's less frustrating to install border with a solid print, as you won't have to match up a pattern. The edges of wallpaper borders come in straight or pattern, and you can stick them right to the wall or on top of other wallpaper (if you are going to stick a border on top of wallpaper, you will need to buy vinyl-to-vinyl adhesive).
The border comes in a variety of different looks, so you can get whatever finished product you prefer. Jocelyn B.ĭEAR JOCELYN: Wallpaper border is definitely easier and it takes a lot less time to complete the job. Please say that wallpaper border is easier. We tried hanging wallpaper on a wall in the past and the results were disastrous. DEAR MIKE: We want to dress up our baby's room with some accents and install wallpaper border around the top near the ceiling and around a door frame.
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