Dania Hussain - What not to do when Choosing Wallpaper

In this modern era, everyone dreams of a beautiful house.  Beautiful designs or wallpaper is the best idea, to make the house look more marvelous. In this modern era, everyone dreams of a beautiful house.  Beautiful designs or wallpaper is the best idea. I am Dania Hussain and suggest you some expert tips while choosing wallpaper, to make the house look more marvelous. Wallpaper can be totally trans formative in any room. It has the power to change the look and feel in a room by adding pattern, color and texture to walls – in a way which paint simply can’t do.

Don’t feel restricted by the size of the room, either, as wallpaper ideas are not just for large open-plan spaces. The right paper can help to bring smaller rooms to life.

Although papering can look fantastic it can be expensive, and not the sort of task you want to get wrong. We’ve spoken to Alex Whitecroft, Head of Design at I Want Wallpaper, to gain the top tips to consider when using wallpaper in our homes.

What not to do when choosing wallpaper

1. Buy before you try: Sounds obviously but how many of us would overlook this process of trying out a wallpaper first, even though we test paints?! ‘As you would with paint, it’s a good idea to source sample wallpaper options before purchasing a whole roll’ explains Alex at I Want Wallpaper. ‘Test wallpaper samples on the walls you’re looking to decorate, to get a feel for the texture and color in the natural light.’ Pretty much all good retailers offer samples of their wallpapers, for you to try out.

Having a sample allows you to better plan your coordinating paint colours throughout the rest of the room.

2. Think pattern is the only option: Wallpaper doesn’t have to be heavily patterned to be powerful. You can buy a simple, pretty plain wallpaper to add color and texture in any room. Alex says ‘Plain wallpaper is a great alternative to paint – which can tend to show the dirt more easily than wallpaper.’ ‘A top tip is to pin samples of the designs you’ve shortlisted on the wall or walls you’re planning to paper to see if it works for you’.

3. Run into a mis-match: When shopping for wallpaper look at the ‘match type’ i.e. the way in which the design matches up when hanging different strips of wallpaper. Different match types will require different amount of preparation and some will require additional roles of paper.’ The last thing you want to do is mis match and have to redo your wallpapering, especially if the paper is an expensive one. Free match wallpapers have a design which is not intended to match when hanging, straight match wallpaper must be matched at the same height each time and offset match offsets the pattern on each strip by half the pattern’s height each time.

4. Think you have to paper the whole wall: While a feature wall implies a whole wall, there are ways to make a feature without wallpapering the entire  length. Say you only have one roll, you may not get enough drops to cover the wall from top to bottom. In this instance we say make a feature by papering a panel within the wall, treating it more like a large piece of art. This living room wallpaper idea gives the paper more prominence as art.

Top tip: use a coordinating color to paint the surrounding wall to create a cohesive look.