Smooth down the surface with the paper hanging brush eliminating all air bubbles.
Hanging wallpaper on painted walls.
Align the top edge of the border to the drawn line and press the border to the wall starting with the left corner.
Paint the whole room with a wall primer sizer.
Priming promotes adhesion making it possible to hang on difficult to stick to surfaces like glossy painted walls.
The best techniques for hanging wallpaper best wallpaper techniques overview.
Begin hanging the wallpaper at the top leaving two inches extra for trimming.
Pigmented primers have a white hiding pigment which makes the entire wall uniformly white very important in today s world of wallpapers that are not 100 opaque to prevent the old wall color from showing through.
Prepare the border paper according to the manufacturer s instructions.