As a rule, one of the most complex tasks cosmetic repairs - wallpapering walls in hard to reach places(on external and in internal corners, places where pipes pass, etc.). However, if you use special techniques and suitable materials, the question is how it will be removed. Let's look at several ways to glue wallpaper in corners. Let's start with a simple task - consider the technique of wallpapering even corners. And then we'll study various options working with uneven joints.

Smooth corners

Happy owners of quality overhaul, as a rule, do not have problems with distortions on the walls. Wallpapering an even joint is much simpler and does not require extra costs.

Internal and external (protruding) wall junctions are covered equally. Let's look at the whole process step by step.

First of all, you need to decide where to start. If thin paper strips are used that will overlap each other (usually up to 0.5 mm), then you should start from the window (so that the seams are not noticeable). If the wallpaper is denser, then it will be glued end to end. In the second case, you should start from the door.

Once you have decided on the direction, you can start taking measurements. It is necessary to note how many strips of wallpaper will be used on the wall before nearest corner. The fact is that the final strip should lie evenly on the adjacent wall by about 2-5 cm. It is better to trim off the excess.

Using a plumb line or laser level, you should mark a straight line perpendicular to the ceiling, and start gluing from there. This way, as you move towards the corner, the trellises will not shift (tilt).

Now you need to apply the next sheet, but starting next to the corner (no matter how even it may seem) is undesirable. For the same reason, an overlap of several centimeters is left on the adjacent wall. Otherwise, there is a high probability of holes and an unaesthetic appearance, which will be difficult to correct.

It is necessary to smooth out the glued panel at the junction of the walls very carefully. It’s not so bad if the edge of the strip, which goes around the corner, protrudes somewhere by 3 cm, and somewhere by all 5. It is much more important that at the junction of two walls the wallpaper fits tightly to the surface without creases, swelling and excess tension.

Advice! If you are too lazy to press the wallpaper tightly in the corners during repairs, then later the pleasure of picking holes in the sagging wallpaper will become a very exciting activity for the child.

The next strip of light paper or thin wallpaper on a non-woven base can be glued on top of the previous one, focusing on a straight perpendicular line, passing as close as possible to the junction of the two walls. Before you start pasting new wall, you can trim off the excess if the edge of the spade is uneven, or leave the bottom layer as is.

Wallpaper that is glued end-to-end (that is, dense and does not stretch after being coated with glue) in the corner is processed using the following technology:

As is the case with paper wallpaper, there is already a small strip of width left after gluing the trellis on the adjacent wall. Apply glue to it, press it and carefully smooth out the entire corner.

On top of this strip - the spade - mount, focusing on the perpendicular line, a new wide strip. All that remains is to make an even joint (after all, the material is dense, possibly embossed, you cannot leave an overlap).

Along the perpendicular line, using a building rule or a fairly long ruler, you need to make a deep cut in the wallpaper from the ceiling to the floor. It should go through both layers, making a straight edge on each side. The most convenient way to do this is with a very sharp stationery or construction knife(the second is preferable, since its blade does not bend as much).

Now you need to carefully remove all the excess trim, re-glue the edges of the opposing strips and straighten the joint. It should turn out perfectly smooth, at a distance of 1-2 cm from the corner.

Advice! You should not overlap or join the wallpaper directly in the corner. There will always be holes or cracks that will ruin a smooth edge. 1-2 cm from the corner is the optimal distance for both internal and external walls.

Several ways to straighten corners

Most often, both in old houses and in new buildings, there are walls with a slope. The meeting place of two such plates can surprise you with its shape. Unless it's wrapped in a spiral, and everything else is business as usual. In practice, 2 have been developed effective ways working with uneven corners.

The first is preliminary preparation walls by leveling (more expensive, but better quality), the second - does not require extra costs, allows you to paste the wallpaper “as is”, while it does not hide the imperfections of the relief. Let's start with the first one.

If the room has rectangular shape, the junction of the two walls should be 90 degrees. If this angle changes somewhere, it means that crooked walls have come into contact. It's easy to check. It is enough to apply a square and draw it from floor to ceiling, assessing the places where the ruler does not touch the surface. If you fill these “voids”, the output will be a perfectly flat shape for pasting.

Let's start with method No. 1

You will need a spatula in the shape of an angle (90 degrees), putty (the more varied the relief of the walls, the more), construction rights And lo, plumb line or level. In the most protruding place of the corner, you need to apply a spatula and mark its location with a line. Fix it to the wall along this line perpendicular to the ceiling. building code(dowels or self-tapping screws). After moistening the surface with water, apply putty and, pressing the rule to the edge, move it several times with a spatula. The smooth joint is ready. All that remains is to remove the excess putty, dry it and sand it with sandpaper.

Advice! If you don’t have a suitable spatula at hand, you can use an even and dense rectangle of wood.

Method No. 2

It will require plaster corner(represents a mesh with an attached iron or plastic strip, bent at an angle of 90 degrees), putty or plaster. All you need is to place a plaster corner perpendicularly and evaluate the gaps. After moistening the surface, apply mortar, attach the profile, level the putty so as to hide the mesh. After drying and sanding, you can now wallpaper the corners. By the way, this method will help protect the joints from destruction.

Method No. 3

Line the walls (and corners accordingly) with sheets of plasterboard. This is the most expensive and effective method. If the walls do not have significant deformations, then the sheets of drywall can simply be glued, leveling them. This is one of the most simple ways, it’s more difficult to install sheets on metal carcass. This method allows not only to level the walls, but also to improve thermal insulation, but it reduces the area of ​​the room.

Techniques for working with uneven corners

Using simple rules, you can tape the joints between walls with trellises without prior leveling.

Let's look at some of them:

1. Choosing the right wallpaper pattern. If the corners in the room have significant deviations, it is worth purchasing wallpaper with a neutral coloring that does not require joining at the edges of the panel. It will be impossible to achieve a matching pattern, and a skewed pattern will ruin the whole impression.
2. Selecting material based on texture. One of the few types of trellises that can stretch is non-woven wallpaper. By stretching during operation, elastic fabrics can effectively hide small depressions and bulges. In addition, they do not need to be pre-applied with glue, they do not get wet and do not tear. The strips are applied to the base dry, and the glue is applied to the walls first with a primer and only then with the base layer.
3. Gluing uneven corner in two layers. A strip of wallpaper 10 cm wide (or more, depending on the nature of the terrain) can be glued to the corner before attaching the main trellises. If you have to make cuts in the outer layer, the bottom strip will fill the gap. In addition, it will strengthen the wallpaper in the corner from tearing in the future.
4. Instead of a narrow strip of paper, the corner is often pre-glued with a painting mesh - this also hides small depressions and strengthens the strip of wallpaper in the corner.
5. Notches for better fit. When gluing the spade (that part of the strip that goes from one wall to another, about 5 cm), it is worth making “herringbone” cuts in it. This way the trellises will lie more tightly to the surface. The new strip is aligned and overlapped or both layers are cut to form a joint. This way, gluing wallpaper in corners is much easier, since the cuts made will not be noticeable.

You don't have to be a jack of all trades to get perfect option home interior. Just follow these simple rules, since the corners of the room are evenly pasted: without displacement of the overall pattern, without swelling and distortions, this is an indicator quality repairs.

Planned or redecorating An apartment can hardly do without such a labor-intensive process as decorating the walls with wallpaper. However, today non-woven wallpaper is often used for wall decoration, which has some advantages over its paper counterparts.

For example, such wallpaper options can be subjected to wet cleaning, they perfectly hide the imperfections of uneven walls and retain their appearance for a long time attractive design. In addition, non-woven wallpaper is quite easy to fix on the wall, because it is a very easy-to-use finishing material that does not form vertical, horizontal folds or bubbles. Traditional external and internal corners that are difficult to finish can be decorated with non-woven material without experiencing any serious difficulties. To do this, you just need to take into account some nuances.

To decorate the corners of a room with non-woven wallpaper, do not try to use a single piece of wallpaper in order to decorate both walls that meet in the corner. In this case, the wallpaper will “behave” almost with a guarantee, and the resulting folds will have to be trimmed, which will negatively affect the appearance walls. However, even if this can be avoided, the crooked angle (unfortunately, this is standard practice for domestic builders) may affect the further decoration of the apartment with wallpaper. After all, non-woven wallpaper is applied to the walls “joint to joint”, accordingly, the distortion made when passing the corner will force all other sheets of material to be trimmed.

Decorating the corners of the room with non-woven wallpaper

Correct wallpapering in the corners with wallpaper made of non-woven cellulose material is as follows:

If everything was done without errors, then the joint between the strips of non-woven wallpaper will be difficult to notice; it will need to be treated with a roller or rag.

External corner

Features of wallpapering external corners in room

External corners in rooms are much less common than internal ones, but they do happen. The technology for applying non-woven wallpaper in this case is almost identical to the passage of internal corners.

At the first stage, we engage in geometric research:

1. We measure the distance - from the edge of the last pasted strip to the outer corner - and prepare the next strip of wallpaper so that, after fixing it on the wall, it “wraps” around the corner by no more than 50 millimeters.
2. We determine the point of the wrapped strip closest to the corner, it is from this point that we will begin gluing a new strip of wallpaper.

Accordingly, measures are taken to apply a vertical stripe and remove wallpaper residues.

By the way, if the outer corner is even, as evidenced not only by a visual inspection, but also by checking with a plumb line, it is permissible to use one strip of wallpaper. However, it must be taken into account that possible discrepancies should not exceed 5 millimeters.

Paper wallpaper

Paper wallpaper is still popular in finishing works inside the apartment. This is due to their very affordable price and sticker method. It is worth noting that paper wallpaper is not capable of hiding serious defects in wall surfaces and crooked corners. The method of fixing paper wallpaper on the walls is not too different from similar technology with non-woven wallpaper.

The simplest option involves sticking this finishing material “overlapping”. In other words, a strip of wallpaper is glued in the corner with a slight overlap (1-1.5 centimeters) onto the adjacent wall, and the next strip is glued directly in the corner itself. What distinguishes this method is its efficiency, but visual effect leaves much to be desired.

Paper wallpaper - application features

The second method of wallpapering corners is suitable even for slightly “cluttered” walls that form a corner. The initial stage is completely consistent with the previous method, the only difference is that the overlap on the adjacent surface is slightly larger. The next strip of wallpaper is also glued “overlapping”, but its side farthest from the corner should be oriented along the vertical strip applied using a plumb line. The canvas should lie with an overlap of 2 centimeters, while having a common border with the adjacent wall. Then, using a special knife, both layers of the finishing material are cut along the applied vertical lines, and after removing its remains, you can begin to further decorate the apartment walls. Don't forget to treat the cut line with a special roller.

As you can see, the method of gluing paper wallpaper in the corners is very similar to the method of fixing non-woven wallpaper.

Finishing external corners with paper wallpaper

External angles occur as window slopes, decorative plasterboard partitions, etc. In any case, the geometry of such a corner is extremely important, because such a corner, unlike the internal one, is constantly in sight. Therefore, possible defects in the outer corner should be eliminated in advance and only after that proceed with wallpapering.

Technology for gluing wallpaper in corners

The technology for gluing wallpaper on the outer corner is very similar to the second method of fixing wallpaper on the inner corner. However, the “overlap” on the adjacent wall should not exceed 5 centimeters, this is due to the fact that a large overlap with an uneven wall surface will be difficult to level. Depending on the quality of the wall and wallpaper, folds may appear; they are eliminated using special horizontal cuts on the canvas. The next strip of wallpaper is glued close to the corner, but its far edge should run along a pre-defined vertical strip. Next, using a paint spatula, building level or a metal ruler, press the center of the overlap and use a wallpaper knife to cut both panels. After the remnants of the wallpaper have been removed, they need to be glued and processed with a roller. In this case, the docking connection will be shifted a few millimeters from the corner itself, but this is how it should be. Otherwise, there is a risk of tearing the wallpaper as a result of careless movement.

Small tricks when working with wallpaper

The finishing material is of key importance when working with internal and external corners:

• You should not apply glue to paper wallpaper in advance; there is a very high chance that it will become soaked through and tear in your hands. However, this type of wallpaper does not require trimming when passing corners because due to the fact that the wallpaper is very thin, it is enough to iron the joints with a dry rag or roller.
• Vinyl wallpaper, on the contrary, is better to treat it with glue in advance and let it absorb it. Vinyl wallpaper is a fairly dense material, and with advance prepared the canvases will be easier to work with.
• There is no need to apply glue to non-woven wallpaper; it is applied only to the wall.
• The general rule for all types of wallpaper is that they should be glued in rooms where there are no drafts and where air conditioners and heaters do not work.

Do not forget that the walls must be treated with a primer before wallpapering. In addition, the glue must match the type of finishing material such as wallpaper. Companies specializing in production various types wallpaper, indicate in the accompanying documents the most suitable adhesive mixtures for their products.

Required tools and materials

Tools and materials for wallpapering an apartment

In order for the decoration of an apartment to go quickly and successfully with wallpaper, it is advisable to take care in advance of the availability of the following tools and materials:

• dry rags or sponge to remove excess glue;
• construction hair dryer;
• brush;
• vacuum cleaner;
• stepladder or scaffolding.

Results

Wallpaper, despite all its shortcomings, as a type of finishing material used for interior design apartments are one of the most popular, this is due not only to their price, but also to the fact that they can be glued without the help of third-party specialists.

Decorating walls with material such as wallpaper is the most common way when the question arises of updating the interior. Inviting specialists to wallpaper a room is convenient, but not necessary. It is enough to be willing to carry out such repairs yourself.

Process Features

If you don’t have the extra money to pay professional finishers, you can handle the wall covering yourself. But there are problems with how to carefully glue the wallpaper in the corners. Before you get started, it's best to know some building codes.

It doesn’t matter in principle where to start wallpapering a room, as long as all the corners are even. If this is not the case, it is better to choose the angle at which, after pasting the wallpaper, you can avoid the skewing of the stripes on flat surface. In any case, it is better to start work from a corner that is not striking or at least will be blocked by furniture in the future. There is certainly no need to choose a protruding corner for pasting with the first canvas.

You should not use a whole piece of wallpaper at the junction of two walls, especially considering that some are very wide. Even on the most even and neat-looking turn, the wallpaper wrinkles and warps slightly, shrinking after drying.

If there are switches or sockets near the corners, it is better to interrupt the electricity supply and remove the covers of these devices before starting work. The protruding parts of the electrical system can simply be covered with wallpaper, and after the work is completed, the places for sockets and switches can be carefully cut out. This will make your work easier and the result will be of better quality.

Surface preparation

To prevent wallpapering the walls from turning into torture at the first turn, you need to carefully prepare the walls for decoration in advance.

Upon closer inspection, the corners may appear crooked, rounded, and sometimes have noticeable depressions and bumps. Therefore, experts advise not to spare time and effort in puttingtying uneven surface, and maybe plaster. Plaster corners will be a good assistant in this matter.

They are leveled and glued with the same plaster or putty. There are corners for internal and external corners. Once the fresh putty has dried, it should be rubbed with sandpaper to make the surface smooth. Then the corners should be carefully primed and wait until excess moisture will also leave the primer.

All these measures will make the process of pasting corners easier, and you will be satisfied with the result.

If it is not possible to achieve absolute evenness or there is no time to do this, you need to be especially careful when choosing the wallpaper itself. For gluing curved surfaces, loose ones are suitable. Decoration Materials, since they will have to be glued overlapping, and from the side where the canvas is applied to the canvas they should not be noticeable.

A good choice in this case would be non-woven wallpaper with small patterns or plain ones. Also, the curvature of the angle can be hidden by non-smooth decorative materials, or even fiberglass for painting.

Pasting step by step:

• Before you start pasting, you need to prepare all the tools and materials.
• Calculate the area that needs to be covered and buy required amount rolls of wallpaper.
• Select appropriate wallpaper glue and dilute it according to the instructions.
• Stock up on a tape measure, a plumb line, a pencil, and a long metal ruler.

• Prepare a construction knife, roller, brush, sponge or clean rag.
• Bring a stool or stepladder so you can reach the top edge of the wall while working.

Stepping back four or five centimeters from the joint, draw a line along the wall with a pencil, perpendicular to the floor, focusing on a plumb line. Majority modern wallpaper glued joint to joint. Therefore, it depends on how correctly you draw this line and paste the first strip, whether the subsequent strips will lie strictly vertically or skewed.

To be sure, it is better to make pencil guidelines for each of them.

Wallpaper strips are cut with a margin of 2 centimeters, since they become shorter after drying. Since wallpaper is sold in round rolls, which are also quite wide and heavy, it is inconvenient to apply them to the wall every time. So it’s better to cut the decorative fabric on the floor on a surface prepared for rolling out wallpaper.

The wall must be carefully glued with glue. Special attention should be given to the corners, because it is in these places that the probability of the decorative layer falling off is greatest. The rule for treating walls with glue applies to all cases: when you decorate walls with paper, non-woven, and vinyl wallpaper. And if you use heavy vinyl wallpaper, you need to coat it with glue as well. During the process, if you hesitate and the glue in the corners has time to dry, be sure to repeat the gluing again.

The technique for gluing corners has long been worked out. There are techniques for gluing both external and internal corners.

External

When finishing walls, convex surfaces are especially striking, so the quality of the outer corners will largely determine the perception of the room as a whole. If the corners are even, it is enough to wrap the wallpaper around the corner three to four centimeters from the protrusions and glue it. If the wallpaper begins to wrinkle, you will have to carefully trim it at the folds. The next strip can be glued to the wall as it is done on a plane.

If the outer corners are crooked, the problem cannot be solved so easily. When you decorate walls with materials that practically do not shrink after drying and fit together joint to joint, the canvas on the corner must be glued so that it protrudes about five centimeters beyond the turn. When gluing, the other canvas should slightly overlap the previous one. A neat cut is made along the ruler in the middle.

Excess material from above and below remains to be removed. Smooth the canvas thoroughly and press it as tightly as possible to the surface.

If you are dealing with paper wallpaper, there is no need to rush to trim the overlap. Double-check the correctness of the sticker using a plumb line. If the deviations are very large, obviously excess wallpaper can be carefully cut off along the intended line.

To complete the design of the outer corner and to prevent the wallpaper on the ledge from fraying over time, it is better to use plastic corners for wallpaper, matched to it in color. You need to calculate in advance how many of them will be needed for the job. Glue the corners using liquid nails or using silicone sealant.

The outer corner approach is also used on ledges around doors and windows. Beams and other similar elements with external corners are glued separately in a similar way using scraps of wallpaper that remain after gluing the canvases on the walls.

Interior

To properly dispose of the next canvas in the corner, you need to measure the distance from the outermost glued strip to the joint and add another two centimeters to the resulting figure. The wallpaper strip must be cut taking this into account and applied to the wall, previously coated with glue. At correct pruning a narrow strip of wallpaper should be on the adjacent strip behind the joint line. Smooth the canvas with a roller and a rag to release all the air between the wall and the future decorative covering.

If such a bubble does not want to disappear, experienced people recommend piercing it to release the air, and using a syringe, pour a little glue under the wallpaper, and then smooth it with a roller.

If the corner is uneven and wrinkles appear on the strip during gluing, use scissors, as in the case of the outer corner, to make neat cuts towards the fold and glue the canvas.

The neighboring strip needs to be glued on the second wall with an overlap of a couple of centimeters on the previous one. Check the quality of your work using a plumb line. When smoothing the second sheet, you must not press the edge of the required allowance against the wall.

Then, using a ruler, you need to cut through the layers with a construction knife, remove excess upper layer, and then the lower segments. Coat the wallpaper in the corner with glue again and press it against the wall so that there are no air bubbles left.

If everything is done carefully, you will get an even seam.

Subtleties of working with drawings

There are certain difficulties in beautifully gluing patterned wallpaper in protruding and internal corners. Using decorative coating with a clear, pronounced pattern, you will have to try not to distort it at the junction. It is necessary to foresee this task in advance when selecting materials in the store.

Distortion is especially noticeable on wallpapers with vertical stripes. If the design is horizontal, it may appear skewed relative to the ceiling and floor.

This can only be avoided if the corners are overlapped. The edge of the canvas must be glued strictly plumb. The adjacent strip must be carefully trimmed along the edge of the corner. Moreover, when covering a wall with paper wallpaper, all these manipulations must be carried out not only carefully, but also with maximum speed. Otherwise, the coating itself will spread and you will ruin more than one strip of wallpaper.

To make the unevenness less noticeable, it is recommended to hide the resulting joint in the upper part of the corner. It is unlikely that it will be possible to avoid a certain shift in the pattern, but with a competent approach it will be so unnoticeable that the eye will only cling to the joints of those who have carried out this repair themselves.

Nowadays non-woven wallpaper or wallpaper based on it is becoming more and more popular, and this is not at all surprising. They are distinguished by durability, ease of maintenance, and soundproofing qualities. In addition, in Lately Manufacturers produce wallpaper twice as wide as a regular roll, 1 meter and several centimeters wide. Thus, gluing can be done several times faster, and there are fewer joints.

But many are afraid to purchase non-woven wallpaper because they are worried that they will not be able to stick it correctly, especially in the corners. Such worries are absolutely groundless, because in order to cover the corners efficiently and beautifully, it is enough to know simple rules. Let's look at this topic in more detail.

What is non-woven wallpaper

In fact, this is wallpaper that is made of foamed vinyl, and the base is non-woven material. This lining material is based on cellulose fibers, which should be at least 70% of the composition. Their main advantage is that they visually level out all the unevenness of the wall, making it perfectly smooth. Also vinyl wallpapers on a non-woven basis they isolate the room from extraneous sounds: the knocking and screams of neighbors behind the wall will become less noticeable.

Non-woven wallpaper or vinyl wallpaper on a non-woven basis can be painted several times and even washed with a sponge to remove dirt. And when you decide to make repairs and peel off the wallpaper, only the top layer is removed, and the non-woven layer will serve as the basis for gluing new ones.

Non-woven wallpaper is very practical; you don’t need any special skills to glue it. But there are a few tips that will undoubtedly be useful to owners who decide to do the repairs themselves.

You can clearly see how to glue non-woven wallpaper in the video:

Gluing internal corners

Remember, the main rule for pasting corners is not to do it with one piece, so that one part of the solid strip is on one wall, and the second on the other. In this case, the non-woven wallpaper may stretch, and the result will definitely not hit you. This rule applies to both internal and external corners. The right decision will cover each wall with a separate piece, which simply fit together correctly.

To glue correctly, there are several ways that will undoubtedly lead you to the expected result.

Option 1. One of the most simple methods is wallpapering in the corner with an overlap. Thus, one sheet is glued with a spacing of 1-1.5 cm, and the second exactly along the corner line, i.e. There is no gap between the wallpaper, and the angle is neat and visually even.

Attention! Non-woven wallpaper is quite dense and thick, so the cut will still be visible.

Option 2. This method is most often used in rooms where the walls are not quite right and are a little overwhelmed. The first sheet is pasted with an allowance for next wall, so as to cover the entire corner. The width of the overlap depends on how much uneven walls in the room. The second one is also glued with an overlap, so that the design is not distorted or displaced. After this, use a level or any other flat object to press a clear line, and use a sharp stationery knife to make a precise cut. Then easily remove the top excess strip.

The bottom part will be more difficult to remove, but just peel back the glued top part and you'll be good to go. After this, reapply glue to the edges and carefully attach them in place. The whole procedure should be carried out as quickly as possible, and then you will receive perfect angle even on such uneven walls.

Option 3. One strip is glued to the wall with an overlap of about 2 cm. Then, using a plastic spatula, it is carefully driven into the depths of the corner. All folds and irregularities can be eliminated quite simply: you need to make several cuts and overlaps, thus removing the unevenness of the canvas and the wall.

Next, take a long metal spatula, press it tightly to the corner and carefully cut off the excess material in one motion. The second strip is glued in the same way and cut. If everything is done correctly and carefully, you will get a monolithic seam that will be almost invisible to prying eyes.

Some options can be seen visually here:

External corners

In addition to internal corners, any room also has external ones. Often these are window slopes or niches and protrusions that cannot be ignored. They have their own characteristics of pasting. With the help of small secrets, gluing will become easy, and the corners will be neat and beautiful. The algorithm for pasting external corners is as follows:

Some more tips and interesting solutions To correctly glue wallpaper, including non-woven wallpaper, on uneven walls, you can watch the video:

In the end, I would like to say that non-woven wallpaper and non-woven wallpaper are quite dense and practical material, which is very easy to glue. It cleans well and will please the eyes of its owners for a long time.

There are now high demands on the appearance of the interior. Owners of Khrushchev apartments, who have repeatedly glued paper trellises in their apartments, now do not dare to begin repairs with their own hands. They don't know how to put wallpaper in the corners to make the room look good. Vinyl and non-woven fabrics are more difficult to work with. They are heavy and require certain skills. If you properly seal the corners with wallpaper, then the next repair will not happen soon.

How to glue wallpaper in corners?

Uneven corners frighten novice craftsmen, but even ones are very rare

It is difficult to bring two planes together perfectly. Therefore, even with smooth walls, the corners have a lot of deviations. I had a lot of work and Vadik had to decorate his aunts’ apartments on his own. He was hesitant to start because he didn’t know how to properly glue wallpaper in the corners.

We glue wallpaper in the room

I decided to show my friend how to wallpaper the rooms of old houses in practice. One of my teams was renovating an apartment in a historical building. Vadik could see:

• preparation;
• alignment methods;
• how to use perforated corners;
• finishing the room.

The technology for finishing corners with wallpaper of all types is the same. Only thin paper trellises and fiberglass webs can differ. Work must begin from front door rooms when gluing end to end. When applying the edges of strips of thin trellises - away from the window.

Preparation and leveling makes subsequent finishing easier

Correctly gluing wallpaper in corners

When doing renovations in old apartments, I always putty the walls and install perforated corners. They simultaneously serve as beacons and protect the ledges from destruction. I choose cardboard ones if the inner corners have slight unevenness. In all other cases I use a PVC profile.

1. I'm checking laser level verticality of the walls. You can use a plumb line. I choose a flatter base surface.
2. I putty and embed the profile in the solution, leveling it.
3. After drying, I smooth it with another layer of putty. For paper and non-woven wallpaper I use an additional finishing compound.

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If customers don’t want to spend money on leveling and corners, then I simply fill up large depressions. I cover the corner with wallpaper, cut a strip 10–12 cm wide. I place it evenly on both walls, making cuts for a tight fit. After this, it is easier to glue wallpaper in the corners. If the top fabric has to be cut or the paper trellises burst, then thanks to the background made of the same material it will not be noticeable.

We glue wallpaper in the corners ourselves

Advice! It’s better to align the corners well once than to fool your head every time you wallpaper a room.

Paste over the protrusions

The last strip in front of the corner is cut off so that it extends onto the other wall by approximately 2–5 cm, depending on the curvature. How more differences, the wider the approach. It should completely cover the most convex place by at least 8 mm.

For a better fit, I make notches with a sharp knife or just cuts with scissors. It is desirable that they be inclined towards the edge. I cover the corners with wallpaper and smooth out the main part first, then the strip around the corner.

How to glue wallpaper in the corners of an apartment?

Before you start gluing the wall from the corner, measure the width of the trellis and draw a line vertically along the level. I also check the condition of the corner. Side surface The strips should go along the deepest dent. I paste it strictly vertically, according to the markings. Near the corner the edge lies flat. The protrusions are hidden under the wallpaper that was pasted earlier.

Wallpapers with large drawing It’s better to trim so that the lines match. A slight shift will not be noticeable.

I cut thick vinyl wallpaper using a ruler at a distance of 2 mm from the edge of the top sheet. Using a sharp knife, I cut both pieces strictly vertically along the entire height. I remove the excess and the canvases lie end to end. For strength, I put a painting mesh.