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Wallpaper for your Home
If you are looking for a more textured, patterned,
or intricate look than you can get with paint,
consider using wallpaper. The variety of
patterns is seemingly endless, so you are
almost sure to find the look you want (just
remember that patterns go out of style and
that there can be a slight variation in color
between lots, so make sure you buy enough
wallpaper for your job with a little left
over in case you later need to make a repair).
Material
When choosing wallpaper, you will need to
choose the material it is made from, and
each has its own characteristics. Vinyl,
vinyl-coated paper or cloth, fabric, textiles,
foil, and Mylar are the most common. Vinyl
or vinyl-coated coverings are recommended
for the first time, do-it-yourselfer because
they are the easiest to hang, clean, and
remove.
Adhesive
Wall paper is either self-adhesive, pre-pasted,
or dryback. The easiest to prepare is the
self-adhesive kind because, like shelf paper,
you just peel over the protective paper to
expose the adhesive. Pre-pasted wallpaper
is the most common and must be dipped in
water or a special solution before it becomes
sticky. Dryback papers, as the name suggests,
have no adhesive, and so you must apply
wallpaper paste.
Permanence
In case you ever want to redecorate (and
as a courtesy to future owners), you should
also consider how easy it is to remove the
paper. If a wallpaper is "strippable,"
it can be pulled away from the wall by hand
leaving little or no film or residue. "Peelable"
wallpapers,on the other hand, may leave a
thin paper layer on the wall when removed.
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