Wallpaper

Before wallpapering, you should clean up your walls. This means that you should sand down any unevenness and fill in any cracks or holes. But be careful: Too much filler can cause new unevenness here. This must be avoided.

Afterwards, a coat of wallpaper primer ensures better adhesion for subsequent wallpapering.

In order to carefully apply a strip of wallpaper, a little dexterity is required. To do this, let a strip of wallpaper stick out a little at the top and then press it on carefully. For this purpose, we recommend using a spatula or trowel or a paintbrush. This will make it easier for you to get no waves or air bubbles in the wallpaper. Then you only have to carefully cut off the protruding web with a cutter or simple scissors.

You can make small rooms appear larger with a few optical illusions. Striped wallpaper or wallpaper with a 3D effect are suitable for this. Stripes on the wall ensure that your eyes are distracted. So they unconsciously follow the stripes and no longer perceive the wall as a simple wall. Horizontal stripes give your room visual width, while vertical stripes make the walls appear higher.

Purely visually, you are also fooled by a 3D wallpaper. It makes a two-dimensional wall suddenly appear more three-dimensional, giving your brain the impression of a larger room. Very popular are three-dimensional wallpapers in stone optics, which give you the feeling of a real brickwork.

Regardless of whether you move house or not, you need to replace your wallpaper if it is permanently damp or if mould has formed. To ensure that your apartment always looks tidy, you can of course also wallpaper when cracks have formed in your wallpaper or when it is slowly peeling off by itself.

Not every wallpaper can be painted over. So if you want to change the wall colour afterwards without re-painting, you should choose one of the following wallpapers:

• Woodchip wallpaper.
• Paper wallpaper.
• Renovation & painter's fleece.
• 3D wallpaper.

A common cause of mould is high humidity and incorrect air circulation. You can prevent this with regular ventilation.

You should be careful behind furniture or curtains. While there is hardly any circulation behind curtains, liquid often collects unnoticed behind furniture, especially those that are never moved once installed (even to vacuum!), such as a wardrobe.

If you notice water damage in your house or apartment, contact your landlord immediately. Only immediate action can prevent mould on the walls in this case.

First try to remove the wallpaper dry from the wall. Only if this is no longer possible, other tools are used. To do this, work the wallpaper with a spiked roller to remove it more easily.

Afterwards you brush it with water or in hard cases with wallpaper solvent over, in order to soak the wallpaper. After a soaking time, you need a spatula to remove the wallpaper, but you should be very careful with it.

Old wallpaper is not recyclable. Therefore, you can dispose of used wallpaper in your rubbish bin.