And you shouldn’t look down on this problem - the choice of where to stick the first roll of wallpaper. It is from him that the whole dance will begin: Captain Vrungel used to say - whatever you name the ship, that’s how it will sail. And we will say - how correctly the choice of place from where to start gluing wallpaper on a non-woven basis is carried out, this will be the result of all the work.
The price of this choice is very high, sometimes it is so high that it even forces you to redo the whole thing.
A problem that never escapes anyone
First, let's decide what needs to be taken into account when making this choice.
What we take into account
The first is the location of all the elements of the room:
- the position of the door relative to adjacent internal corners and the ceiling;
- the same three window points, and everything is much more complicated if there are two windows or there is access to the balcony;
- position of sockets and switches;
- position of the battery and heating system pipes.
The second is something that is often forgotten, perhaps because it requires a more subtle calculation:
- furniture arrangement and
- placement of additional interior elements.
Useful advice!
Of course, everyone has their own ideas about saving, but we advise you to pay attention to this nuance.
You are going to put a wardrobe in the room, a wall, and make a partition for the wardrobe, which will cover the entire wall from floor to ceiling, from the left corner of the wall to the right.
So why bother gluing wallpaper here, and even racking your brains about how it’s more convenient to do it on the corners.
Wouldn't it be easier to give up wallpaper on this wall?
This wall, as a rule, is large, in any case not with an entrance door and window, so the overall savings in wallpaper will be at least 40%, which is very decent.
Be sure to check out the bonus video in this article to help you delve even deeper into this killer wallpaper geometry. Mistakes and inconsistencies happen - of course, you need to be prepared for them, but always try to predict in advance.
By the way, a corridor and a hallway are different concepts. Still, the hallway, if we use this word correctly, is a place for meeting guests, it is the first thing a person sees when entering an apartment. A corridor is an intermediate space between rooms, that is, it is not necessarily the first visible part of the home. The decoration of these premises deserves special attention. The fact is that the same corridor is like the connecting thread of all the rooms. Whether this thread will match the color of the overall image of the home, or whether it will contrast with it is the owner’s decision. But how can you not go wrong with this decision?
Wallpaper for the corridor: what it should be
The corridor is a place for practical wallpaper. Whatever one may say, it is subject to particular contamination, therefore paper or textile wallpaper is not suitable for the walls of the corridor. Although if they are used as inserts, this is acceptable. Almost any washable wallpaper will do, so you won’t have to worry about it when cleaning it wet.
Decorating the corridor involves other tricks, and it depends on the type of space - narrow or long, small or wide, etc.
Which wallpaper to choose for the hallway: looking for the best solution
As mentioned above, best option– washable wallpaper.
Types of washable wallpaper:
- Vinyl. This is one of the most common options, but not to say that they are on the cutting edge of fashion. Rather, vinyl wallpaper is a classic, acceptable in both price and performance characteristics. If you take vinyl wallpaper, then most of this type is not afraid of even the impact of a brush, which simplifies their cleaning.
- Cork wallpaper. But such a finish is more modern, since with such a coating naturalness and light come into the interior, they naturally connect the elements of the room. This wallpaper is also easy to clean.
- Fiberglass wallpaper. You can also glue a coating similar to fiberglass fabric. For the hall and corridor, spider web wallpaper is considered a popular option. This material is both reinforcing and decorative at the same time.
- Liquid wallpaper. This option is also good, but not all liquid wallpapers are resistant to moisture. Please pay attention to this when choosing a ready-made composition.
But if you have already figured out what kind of decoration will be in the corridor, then sometimes it comes down to the choice of color and pattern. And here everything depends on the features of the corridor.
Wallpaper for the corridor in Khrushchev
Khrushchev buildings do not indulge their residents with good footage, and therefore they have to resort to various tricks in order to somehow visually expand the space. Many are sure that dark wallpaper in the hallway of a Khrushchev building is prohibited - but this is not entirely true. Beautiful combinations with light canvases, the right combination - and the finish will be suitable.
For a Khrushchev-type house, the main problem is small rooms. You can visually enlarge a room with light-colored wallpaper
Here are some tricks you can use:
- You can take wallpaper with a pattern of small horizontal lines and strokes;
- If you need to “raise” the ceiling, you will need wallpaper with stripes (vertical), or simply with vertical lines;
- For narrow long corridor This type of decoration is suitable - the far and short wall is covered with wallpaper with a darker background than the long walls. But the coating pattern can be taken the same.
- If in the corridor of a Khrushchev building there is a wall free of furniture, the following decoration is used - story-based wallpaper with a dynamic pattern (a running river, a sailboat on the waves, etc.).
The voluminous dynamic pattern will ideally emphasize spot lighting.
Wallpaper for a small corridor in an apartment: the right choice is yours
You can transform the walls in a small corridor with your own hands. This finishing is done on a ready-made background. For example, your main background is light wallpaper. You make a drawing using special fluorescent paints. It seems that in normal times he is invisible if the light is on. But as soon as the light is turned off, your picture will open, making the corridor space alive, dynamic and a little magical. If there are small children in the house, such a decision will definitely become one of the brightest childhood memories.
Modest footage is a factor from which you need to divert attention.
If the corridor is small, there are several ways to hide it, not without the help of wallpaper:
- An interesting print, a play on the wallpaper and a minimum of furniture will breathe air into your corridor;
- You can take light embossed wallpaper for the corridor in the Scandinavian style, either with a very small and sparse pattern, or without a pattern at all;
- Highlight one of the walls with a covering with an interesting plot that will attract attention;
- For light, plain wallpaper there is another great solution - vinyl stickers, which look interesting and original.
Finishing can be done not only with the help of wallpaper; stone is also often used.
Decorating the corridor with stone and wallpaper: practical and stylish
In this case, the basis is plain neutral wallpaper that will harmonize with the stone. That is, you cannot choose, for example, bluish wallpaper and amber stone; these are shades from different scales.
Commonly used decorative stone, since with natural stone the cost of repairs will increase sharply.
Two types of materials are used for stone finishing:
- Decorative stone based on modified gypsum;
- Decorative stone based on pigmented cement.
Cement stone is, of course, stronger, but gypsum stone is easier to process. Also, cement stone is not afraid of moisture, but it is literally twice as heavy as its gypsum counterpart. But after installation, both gypsum and cement stone will look the same.
The walls can be covered with solid stone, but for a small corridor this is a bad option, but a combination of stone and wallpaper is a completely acceptable solution. Most often, this scheme is used: the door slopes are completely processed with stone, but the walls are partially processed.
Combined cladding with stone and wallpaper makes the corridor more elegant, and inclusions of stone enliven the space, making it more dynamic.
Liquid wallpaper in the hallway: how to care for it
If you simply cover the corridor with liquid wallpaper, the service life will be short, so you cannot do without a protective coating.
To protect liquid wallpaper in the hallway from moisture, acrylic varnish and primer will help.
Features of caring for liquid wallpaper in the hallway:
- Dirt and dust also settle on them, and this can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner or with a damp cloth;
- If the wallpaper is varnished, it can be safely washed;
- Liquid wallpaper can be washed in principle if it contains natural silk and a polymer binder (without cellulose).
If you wash wallpaper with a vacuum cleaner, the power should be minimal. Dissolved in water laundry soap gives excellent results - this solution also copes with complex stains. According to many reviews, dishwashing detergent does an excellent job of cleaning liquid wallpaper.
How to make liquid wallpaper with your own hands (video)
Where to start gluing wallpaper in the hallway
The wallpaper in the corridor is glued according to a special pattern. Just as gluing ordinary wallpaper comes down to the “from the light” principle, so here – you start gluing not from the door, but towards front door.
But you can choose any of the proposed methods:
- From the door. This method is more difficult, since you will have to maintain strict verticality. To ensure that the first canvas is glued correctly, a plumb line is used.
- From the corner. This option is good if the corridor has perfectly smooth walls.
- From several lines. This method produces many joints, and it is used if other options are not possible.
It is difficult to say which wallpaper is best to paste - of course, it is always difficult to combine the pattern and make joints. But modern embossed wallpaper is so good in this sense that the seams are practically invisible.
How to glue wallpaper in the hallway (video tutorial)
When renovating an apartment, wallpaper for the hallway is often chosen almost as a last resort, but this place is no less important than the living room. To add elegance to the corridor, you can combine wallpaper with stone. Fashionable solutions are considered to be a combination of wallpapers and wallpapers with complex themes, as well as natural wallpapers.
RatingUsually, repair work and decoration of the corridor is carried out after all the rooms in the apartment have been renovated.
The corridor is a connecting room that has its own specific functions. That is why the decoration of this room should be taken as seriously as the decoration of other rooms.
Which wallpaper should you choose?
When choosing wallpaper, you must take into account the size of the corridor and its illumination. To decorate well-lit and spacious corridors, you can use wallpaper with floral prints. Also, classic wallpaper with vertical stripes will look good in such corridors. In addition, there are restrictions on color scheme wallpaper. For example, designers do not recommend using wallpaper in dark tones and shades in corridors.
The downside of most Russian apartments is that they are small. That is why owners often face the question: What wallpaper should I put in the hallway? Many corridors are very dark and narrow, they need an influx of light. Most owners of apartments with such corridors try to solve the problem with bright wallpaper, not knowing that they can darken dark rooms.
Bright wallpaper absorbs light even if you hang it large number lamps, the corridor will not become brighter. It is best to choose peach, soft pink, blue, golden-yellow wallpaper for the corridor. It is the wallpaper of these colors that will visually enlarge the corridor and make it bright.
Rules for wallpapering in the hallway
Rule one: wallpaper for the corridor should not be too light.
Rule two: it is best to use washable wallpaper in the hallway. Today, specialized stores offer a huge range of such wallpapers, so choosing the right ones will not be difficult.
Rule three: when choosing wallpaper for the corridor, you need to take into account the color scheme of the furniture. The wallpaper should also go well with the flooring and ceiling of the corridor. The wallpaper pattern also plays a big role. For small corridors, you should not choose wallpaper with a large floral pattern, as it will visually reduce it.
How to properly hang wallpaper in the hallway?
In order to properly hang wallpaper in the hallway, the entire work process must be divided into two stages.
Stage one
Before you start hanging wallpaper in the hallway, you need to prepare the walls, that is, peel off the old wallpaper from them. There are two ways to get rid of old wallpaper: the first method is quite labor-intensive and requires time and effort. Using any sharp tool, such as a spatula, the wallpaper must be gradually peeled off. The second method is much easier. Before peeling wallpaper off the walls, you need to moisten it generously with water. This method will help you quickly and effortlessly remove old wallpaper from your walls.
Stage two
Let's move on to wallpapering, but we shouldn't rush, because first we need to measure and calculate everything so that there is enough wallpaper. Also, to hang wallpaper in the hallway, you need glue. Today on store shelves there is a huge assortment of glues for various types wallpaper Therefore, you should only choose the glue that is intended for the type of wallpaper you have chosen.
When gluing wallpaper, glue must be applied from the center to the edge. Special attention should be given to the edges of the wallpaper. They should be coated with glue more thoroughly. After the glue is applied, you need to wait for the glue to be absorbed. If you purchased heavy wallpaper, then before gluing it you should coat the wall with glue.
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Before proceeding to the final stage finishing works, carried out using non-woven, paper or vinyl canvases, you should clarify where to start gluing the wallpaper in the room, kitchen, bedroom, corridor. For each of the listed premises there are a number of features related to lighting or the presence of door and window openings. Therefore, when figuring out where to start gluing wallpaper, you should clarify in which specific room the finishing work is to be carried out.
You can hang wallpaper in a room in strict accordance with all existing rules and requirements after you have selected the material intended to create the finishing coating. The most common ones today are non-woven or vinyl fabrics. When deciding where to start gluing non-woven wallpaper, you should pay attention to the rules for working with such a fabric:
- You can start gluing wallpaper in a room from some large landmark, for example, a corner, window or door. The choice is based on measurements taken in advance. It is important to determine the maximum and minimum height of the walls and use the data obtained to base your choice of the location for gluing the first sheet.
- Beginning craftsmen should know that a special feature of non-woven wallpaper is its thickness. Such canvases need to be glued to the walls at the joint. The slightest overlap of one canvas on another is unacceptable.
- You can start wallpapering the room from the far corner, located opposite the front door. In this option, the gaze will fall not on the joint, but on the even, smooth surface of a single sheet of wallpaper.
- When deciding where to start gluing wallpaper in the living room, you should pay attention to the presence of large objects in the room that attract the attention of others. Such a landmark can become a starting point for starting work related to wallpapering.
- If the room has access to a balcony or loggia, and the distance from the boat to the nearest inner corner is very small, then when deciding where to start, you can choose the far corner as a guide.
Ideally even corners are extremely rare in modern residential premises, so there is a strict rule to maintain verticality throughout the entire pasting area. Wallpapering the walls of the room is done after marking the vertical line on each wall.
Another question that beginners often ask is where they start gluing wallpaper, or more precisely, which side of the room to start the work from. The answer to this may be the statement of experienced craftsmen who say that if there is no need to glue wallpaper on overlapping walls, you can start working from the doorway and move clockwise, that is, glue the canvases from left to right.
The peculiarity of performing work in a residential area is the ability to make any decision when choosing where to start gluing wallpaper correctly. To create the highest quality coating, it is important to remember to follow the rules when joining.
In this case, even rays of light will not make the junction of the canvases noticeable, and the surface of the wall will look like a solid canvas.
Work order in the corridor
When figuring out how to properly glue wallpaper, it is important to clarify what kind of room we are talking about. The fact is that such a part of the apartment as a corridor or hallway differs from other rooms in the absence of window openings. Here the decoration can be an arched structure or several doorways can be located. Begin wallpapering in the hallway from the far inner corner.
This work can be done quite quickly and easily if the corners are absolutely even, otherwise the order of the manipulations associated with wallpapering will be as follows:
- A mark is made on the wall opposite the front door, marking the vertical. To do this, use a building level with a spirit level. You need to retreat at least 10 cm from the corner
- Each new sheet of wallpaper should be glued so that its edge overlaps the adjacent wall, where the vertical is also marked.
- To ensure high-quality joining, you can use a plumb line.
- Wallpaper in the hallway with complex geometry is pasted using a new vertical for each subsequent canvas.
Before gluing wallpaper on the walls in the corridor, you need to prepare an adhesive base. This can be a special composition that is applied directly to the walls over the mark made.
A dry sheet of wallpaper is applied to the surface of the wall so that its edge exactly coincides with the mark.
Lightly pressing this edge, smooth the middle of the sheet with a plastic spatula, then begin smoothing, directing the movements of the spatula from the middle in different directions, as if drawing a Christmas tree.
Beginners prefer to apply the adhesive composition not only to the walls, but also to the canvas itself, which in many situations only complicates the work. You must strictly follow the instructions to achieve a high-quality surface and complete joining.
Work in the kitchen
The difficulty of performing work related to wallpapering in the kitchen lies in the characteristics of the room itself. Here you need to consider:
- the need for installation and installation of household appliances;
- leave space for creating a kitchen apron from tiles;
- take into account the location of the window and door;
- take into account the peculiarities of the passage area and rest areas.
In most cases, when choosing which wallpaper in the kitchen is better and easier to stick on the walls, consumers choose canvases for painting. Their advantage lies not only in the ability to change the color of the coating if desired, but also in the significant width of the roll.
The procedure for performing the work is not much different from gluing wallpaper on walls in other rooms. It is only important to make sure of high-quality gluing, since here the wall covering will be subject to the negative effects of temperature changes and changes in air humidity.
The gluing process has certain distinctive features. To ensure high-quality fixation of the canvases on the walls, you need to apply the adhesive composition to the wrong side of the wallpaper sheet, fold the edges towards the middle, and then fold it in half again. Now you need to wait until the glue begins to absorb into the wallpaper and you can start gluing.
The first sheet is placed in accordance with the mark made, placing the edge strictly vertically. You need to smooth it with a rubber roller or a plastic spatula. You can study the process of wallpapering in detail by watching the video.
Carrying out work on gluing wallpaper on the walls of any room in strict accordance with the instructions guarantees high level quality of the created finishing coating.