Get design creative with wallpapers

Wallpapers have had a resurgence of late, and unlike the boring plain wallpapers used in the olden days, they have come back with a variety of beautiful designs, textures and colours. So you definitely don’t have to start cracking your brain on how to brighten up your rooms, offices or shops with different colours of paint because with wallpapers you surely don’t need to be too crafty. Just stick them up on the wall with wall paper glue and strip them off easily when you get tired of the colour or design.

Here’s why wallpapers are a better option to painting:

1. You don’t need any expert skills to put them up on your wall. Patterned wallpapers are designed so that the pattern repeats, and thus pieces cut from the same roll can be hung next to each other so as to continue the pattern without it being easy to see where the join between two pieces occurs.

2. It can be used to help cover up uneven surfaces and holes on your walls

3. Adds creativity to a room as it comes in various designs, patterns and colours

4. It’s quite easy to clean and maintain

Wallpaper maintenance

Wallpapers come in all sorts of textures and types, and each has a quality of its own. Because of its easy-to-use features, some people just simply paste the wallpapers on the wall and forget about it, which shouldn’t be so. It is very important to maintain them after installing them. Maintaining wallpapers is a task in itself where you need to keep in mind the quality of it. For those that are expensive and waterproof, cleaning them with water is a walk in the park but what about those that require cleaning but aren’t waterproof? While you think of all these questions and queries, here are a few maintenance tips that could sort your problems.

• Use the vacuum cleaner – Whether it is waterproof wallpaper or a regular paper pasting, a vacuum cleaner can come to your aid. You could attach a soft brush at the end of it and lightly brush against the wallpaper especially those areas near the ceiling, which isn’t visible well. Ensure you do not stick the attachment too close to the wallpaper or brush it harshly. There are chances of the wall getting a scratch and permanently getting damaged.

• Test before applying water or cleaning liquids – Even if they claim to be waterproof, it is always safe to test a small corner of the wall with water or cleaning fluid to check. You could use soapy water or cleaning liquid to dab on the area. If you notice the colour running or getting absorbed, it isn’t fit for a wash. You would rather have to use dry cleaning methods of using a dusting cloth once in a while to avoid the dust settling on it for long.

• Keep waterproof walls in the kitchen and bathrooms – While you install these paper designs on your walls, you should consider using waterproof ones in the kitchen and the bathrooms if not in the other rooms. These are the places that get dirty easily especially the kitchen due to the release of grease or steam from the food that you cook. Frequently cleaning these walls can keep the walls looking beautiful without getting affected by oil stains.

 
JUMOKE AKIYODE