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  • Wallpapering after construction is by far the easiest way to go, but pre-cutting pieces for the odd-shaped spots is a good idea. This is the Side Roof. It has been stained so any spaces between shingles won't be a different color. It has shingle-guidelines on the outside, and I am using it as a cutting template for the wallpaper that will go onto it
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  • The Foundation from the front
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  • The wallpaper leaves a little gap above and below the Groove-fill. Paint it before papering and cut the paper to come close to the edge (don't cut it to come exactly to the edge - it's too hard to rub it down and the paper expands a little when you paste it anyway... leave a small gap and paint behind it)
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  • I have tested the Divider and determined where I want it to go. I am measuring to cut a piece of wallpaper to fit - covering the mark but still leaving some bare wood for glue
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  • Put paste on the paper first so it can expand from the moisture before you lay it on the wall
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  • Paste the walls. Don't be stingy and don't be fussy. The extra paste wipes off
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  • Just covering the mark, a little clearance at the bottom and the top
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  • You get less bubbles if you rub it down as you lay it (rather than getting it all in place, then trying to coax the bubbles out)
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  • Make a sharp corner before you lay the second wall - the paper won't slide back into the corner after it is stuck to the whole wall
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  • Rub down the corner, then sponge-brush the wall next to it again to make sure it is well stuck down in this vulnerable spot
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  • I am starting in the corner of the Tower Front with a tiny overlap wrapped onto the side. The wallpaper isn't long enough to go all the way around the room in one piece and joining wallpaper is easiest in an inside corner
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  • A second piece starts in the corner and does the rest. The second piece overlaps the tiny piece that wrapped from the front so there's never a gap
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