Paint the whole room with a wall primer sizer.
Hanging wallpaper on painted walls.
The best techniques for hanging wallpaper best wallpaper techniques overview.
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.
Layout is the key when you re learning how to hang wallpaper.
Smooth down the surface with the paper hanging brush eliminating all air bubbles.
Align the top edge of the border to the drawn line and press the border to the wall starting with the left corner.
Make an indentation with the scissors at the top and bottom joints where the wallpaper should end then cut off the excess.
Begin hanging the wallpaper at the top leaving two inches extra for trimming.