I finished decorating the lounge, all except the chimney breast which the missus has bought some snazzy repeating patterned wallpaper for. Been a few years since I've done any papering but I thought (I'm quite handy with a paintbrush), no problem I'll give it a try. So Sunday morning get everything set up, walls sized, ready to go.
First piece goes up like a dream. Second piece takes me over an hour, it goes down the side of the fireplace so is inset and has to follow the ornamental scrollwork on the side of the hearth. A couple of slight tears in the paper but not where you'd notice.
Third piece also takes me an hour, it's a narrow folding piece round the corner of the chimney. The wall is not straight and I can't get the thing to lie flat round the corner. I end up ripping the paper and starting again.
The fourth piece goes in the bin, I thought I'd got the pattern lined up but had cut it short by 1/2 inch. Redo the fourth piece, takes another 45 mins.
It's at this stage, that I notice that a gap has appeared between the first two pieces of paper that I'd put up, and as I watch another gap appears between the second and third pieces. Obviously I'd over-flattened\wettened the paper and it was contracting.
I then rip the whole lot down in a massive tantrum have a mega-flounce and tell the missus to "buy some emulsion" amongst twenty or thirty well chosen Anglo-Saxon expletives.
Not wallpapering again.
First piece goes up like a dream. Second piece takes me over an hour, it goes down the side of the fireplace so is inset and has to follow the ornamental scrollwork on the side of the hearth. A couple of slight tears in the paper but not where you'd notice.
Third piece also takes me an hour, it's a narrow folding piece round the corner of the chimney. The wall is not straight and I can't get the thing to lie flat round the corner. I end up ripping the paper and starting again.
The fourth piece goes in the bin, I thought I'd got the pattern lined up but had cut it short by 1/2 inch. Redo the fourth piece, takes another 45 mins.
It's at this stage, that I notice that a gap has appeared between the first two pieces of paper that I'd put up, and as I watch another gap appears between the second and third pieces. Obviously I'd over-flattened\wettened the paper and it was contracting.
I then rip the whole lot down in a massive tantrum have a mega-flounce and tell the missus to "buy some emulsion" amongst twenty or thirty well chosen Anglo-Saxon expletives.
Not wallpapering again.
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