I am an experienced paper hanger, but I have never been able to solve the
following wallpaper problem:-

My hallway has an outside corner which is rounded off over most of it's
height, but squared off for the last foot or so at the bottom and top. How
do you paper round this corner neatly? I can fudge it using anaglypta and a
little filler on the overlaps, but a patterned paper is difficult. The
results always look untidy.

Is there any "approved" method for achieving a neat corner?.

"Rob Bashford" wrote in message

Is there any "approved" method for achieving a neat corner?.



A pic would be nice to see what it looks like.

"Rob Bashford" wrote in message
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I am an experienced paper hanger, but I have never been able to solve the
following wallpaper problem:-

My hallway has an outside corner which is rounded off over most of it's
height, but squared off for the last foot or so at the bottom and top.
How do you paper round this corner neatly? I can fudge it using anaglypta
and a little filler on the overlaps, but a patterned paper is difficult.
The results always look untidy.

Is there any "approved" method for achieving a neat corner?.

I could never wallpaper as it doesn't seem to come with holes for switches
and sockets!
Hack off the squared bit and make it match the rest. There is no other way
to do it unless you can stretch the paper so it's a mad shape. One way
would be to do it in two pieces but it will leave lines. Patterns are
terrible to try and get right as I have never known a house to have
perfectly square walls.

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I am an experienced paper hanger, but I have never been able to solve the
following wallpaper problem:-

My hallway has an outside corner which is rounded off over most of it's
height, but squared off for the last foot or so at the bottom and top. How
do you paper round this corner neatly? I can fudge it using anaglypta and a
little filler on the overlaps, but a patterned paper is difficult. The
results always look untidy.

Is there any "approved" method for achieving a neat corner?.

My hall has 2 of these outside corners. I centred the main vertical
focus of the pattern on the curve and where it blended into a squared
off corner I made a vertical cut in the centre and finished the
resulting flaps such that the original outside edges of the paper
remained vertical. This leaves a gap in the middle of the squared off
section which I finished with a patch, again with the pattern centred on
the corner.

Pic he
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=8f1oz8p&s=1
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fred
Plusnet - I hope you like vanilla

Rob Bashford wrote:
I am an experienced paper hanger, but I have never been able to solve the
following wallpaper problem:-

My hallway has an outside corner which is rounded off over most of it's
height, but squared off for the last foot or so at the bottom and top. How
do you paper round this corner neatly? I can fudge it using anaglypta and a
little filler on the overlaps, but a patterned paper is difficult. The
results always look untidy.

Is there any "approved" method for achieving a neat corner?.


I lnow what I would do. Cover the square bit first, and then cover the
corner with a slit bit.


Cant do much better than that.

The best solution is to ruund off the square bit..or square off the
round bit!

Patterned wallpaper works bets in dead square boring rooms.

"fred" wrote in message
My hall has 2 of these outside corners. I centred the main vertical
focus of the pattern on the curve and where it blended into a squared
off corner I made a vertical cut in the centre and finished the
resulting flaps such that the original outside edges of the paper
remained vertical. This leaves a gap in the middle of the squared off
section which I finished with a patch, again with the pattern centred on
the corner.

Pic he
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=8f1oz8p&s=1
--
fred
Plusnet - I hope you like vanilla

Good effort,however you would have been better starting wallpapering at that
point,that way you would have got a pefectly lined up pattern on its
corners.

I could never wallpaper as it doesn't seem to come with holes for switches
and sockets!


Oh the joy of removing switches and sockets (vacuum the wall box).
Wallpapering and then carefully cutting a hole. In the meanwhile, give
sockets and switches a good clean and polish.
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John

Good effort,however you would have been better starting wallpapering at
that
point,that way you would have got a pefectly lined up pattern on its
corners.

Thanks for all your comments. It seems that there is no really satisfactory
way of doing this. Why did they go to all the bother of plastering the wall
this way. In the 30's I think that most walls would have been papered. It
is beautifully done but ......

"Rob Bashford" wrote in message
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Good effort,however you would have been better starting wallpapering at
that
point,that way you would have got a pefectly lined up pattern on its
corners.

Thanks for all your comments. It seems that there is no really
satisfactory
way of doing this. Why did they go to all the bother of plastering the
wall
this way. In the 30's I think that most walls would have been papered.
It
is beautifully done but ......

Because you had dedicated craftsmen in those times and before.

"George" wrote in message
news

"Rob Bashford" wrote in message
...
Good effort,however you would have been better starting wallpapering at
that
point,that way you would have got a pefectly lined up pattern on its
corners.

Thanks for all your comments. It seems that there is no really
satisfactory
way of doing this. Why did they go to all the bother of plastering the
wall
this way. In the 30's I think that most walls would have been papered.
It
is beautifully done but ......

Because you had dedicated craftsmen in those times and before.



Good luck. Didn't some houses have a chamfer over most of the height - and a
proper corner top and bottom? Presumably before the days of the metal beads
that plasterers now use to made a robust corner.