Wallpaper can be one of the most expensive surfaces in your home, both for material and install. Designing with and coordinating wallpaper requires tons of forethought and planning. It’s important to get it right. Here are a few tips we’ve learned over the years.
Wallpaper is likely to be the center of the design of whatever space you’re including it in, so it’s important to select this early.
This is very important: if a construction worker looks sideways at your wallpaper, it will be destroyed.
Your wallpaper installer should be scheduled after every trade is complete, after all cleans are complete, and after your furniture is in. This is the only way to ensure it doesn’t get damaged.
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