Papering Around Windows And Doors

How to work around windows and doors.

Papering around windows and doors.

Aubrey shows how to wallpaper around windows and door openings to produce a neat professional finish. Once the wallpaper has been smoothed out with a putty knife use it to push the wallpaper right up against the edge of the window trim. So let s approach it in a relaxed manner. There will be a slight cut out for the window cill.

Always wallpaper from one side towards the door. Once you have made this cut you can fold the paper around the edge of the reveal and smooth out then cut the excess off from the window frame edge. Instead of cutting the wallpaper straight across start by making diagonal cuts in the paper from the edge of the overlap to the corner of the trim on a 45 degree angle. Papering round windows and door openings the first overlap on a window should be cut as shown in the diagram.

Once you have smoothed out the paper you need to get a sharp knife cut the wallpaper along the top of the reveal horizontally from the edge of the paper toward the side of the reveal. The video gives step by step instructions on the proces. The flap of the cut fold round into the window reveal with the rest of the paper going over and under the window. Wallpapering around doors is not as tricky as it might seem.