How to wallpaper corners

Very good. This will be helpful for the vestibule I’m papering, which has six inside corners.

Yes this is a studio tetorial demonstration.
Please bare in mind all decorators and myself that this does not refer to all older buildings and wonky Victorian lounges.
Please always measure top middle and bottom and come onto the wall 5mm with each reading and not just 26.5cm all the way down otherwise you will get 5mm and 10mm over into the corner.
When you out there in the real world dealing with clients and pressure you need to act and use your head and in some cases you need to go against the text book correctness.
Even with plumb lines dropped bare in mind its just a guide so your paper is not scew but does not garantee a perfect drop. However itle help of course.
Best way to learn is manual experience and pick up as you go also you will forget some steps over the years and remind yourself later ah!! ya thats how its done again.
College and on hand experience are two different factors
Good luck to all

How would this work if you were meeting two different wallpapers in the corner, like a feature wall and a regular wall?

This is absolutely the right way to do it. Been using this myself for decades. Just bear in mind that if you have 130 yr old house like mine, don't just measure top and bottom but all the way down. Victorian horse hair reinforced lath and plaster walls can vary hugely in thickness, up to an inch or more.

If the wall was really bad and 7mm out of plumb would you need to have an 8mm overlap instead of the 5mm overlap in the video. Thanks

Thank you so much for this.
My 1st wallpapering done, also with the help of my Dad.

On corner you done 28 cm wouldn't have been better cut to 27 cm maybe

When you transferred the small right side piece measurement to the wall did you measure from the end of the 5mm excise coming from the left wall or from the corner of the wall

I'm so confused, surely adding 5mm to the width of the remaining cut off is going to leave you 5mm short of the corner? 27.5mm width, installed on a 28mm line?

Thank you for putting this video up it helped me greatly, though it isn't perfect it's better than it would have been

Did the paper overlap in the corner?

Thank you for your clear directions! Thanks from the USA.

Is this same method necessary for lining paper that is going to painted?

exactly what i was looking for, thx

one the second pice , do you use the side you cute in the couner ? I tryed this but I dont get the rigt patern ...

I feel a bit more confident for the job after watching that video. Many Thanks ! I can't figure out why you added an extra 5mm for the plumline though. Is it to allow for you to see the pencil marks? Or do you line the paper up exactly to the dots. I know its probably a dumb question but I can't figure where the extra 5mm went to in the overlapping ! .... Sorry lol 😊

I did my apprenticeship back in 2007. It’s only 2 years for level 2 and another year for level 3 which I managed to get. The work I did tho was mostly painting. Then the recession hit and I got paid off so joined the army. I’ve recently left and am trying to set up own decorating business. The painting side is fine but I wish I had of paid attention and used the bays available to practice my wallpapering back then instead of messing around 😂. Tried to get a refresh course but they want me to pay for the full thing. These videos are coming in handy just going to study them until I’m confident enough to advertise. It’s the attention to detail that’s the problem. Getting those little bits nipped. Thanks for the videos tho they are coming in handy.

And you MUST make sure each piece of paper you hang soaks first for at least 5 minutes because wallpaper expands when wet by 5-7mm

Just watched your 'hang wallpaper around windows' video Aubrey and it's really good, if you were to hang lining paper horizontally would the process be different ? Thanks. Do you have a tutorial on how to cut around the ends of a window sill or would it be a similar to cutting around a plug socket ? Thanks.

Always remember to give it a smoothywoothy guys

Great tutorials you do. Question though how do you deal with papers that only have short soak times. Ie 4-6 minutes

Thanks for the content.

Good tips! Thanks!,

This guy is great, I'd only ever papered single feature walls before but after watching these videos I've done 2 whole rooms, thanks.

I saw another video, where they used a glue to glue the second paper in the corner. Is this not necessary? Is there a difference between the method for easy-up wallpaper or the ones made of paper? Thank you, your video was very interesting. Hugs from us in Sweden!

That was the clearest explanation of how to do this I’ve found. Thank you.

Great video, what about external corners do you do the same mate 👍

Great video buddy 👍🏻

Brilliant! Helped me out a lot. Thanks 👍🏻

How do you slice the paper without it ripping?

Excellent as usual sir! Would it be a good idea to measure the middle as well Aubrey because as yo say there’s never a perfect 90 degree corner? It could quite easily be even wider at that point. 👍🏻

That pattern is off a mile

So you're losing the match in every corner for the sake of the following wall being plumb?

Great Video Aubrey, but could you do one showing how to wallpaper an external corner (not a chimney breast). I am planning on papering my hall stairs and landing and I have a large external corning to go around. Cheers!

He looks like Paul McCartney

Excellent tutorial. I've just decorated my dining room and pretty much did the same as Aubrey, except I measured and cut before pasting, which seemed more logical and less messy. For the life of me though, I can't trim wet paper at picture rails and skirting boards, even with a very, very sharp knife! I had to leave it overnight, then trim and in some places, use a paintbrush with paste to re-stick the paper. Looks ok in the end, and it's ok for a DIYer who can wait overnight, but I don't suppose a pro would get away with that.

when going around external corners how much overlap do you use going round onto the other wall, I always though it was about 19mm, 3/4 of an inch but i have seen videos advising anything between 2 and 4 inches, which seems pretty excessive, your opinion would be greatly appreciated, thank you

have you done a video showing papering around outside corners? thanks

I'm about to wallpaper a complex shaped room and I hope to hear Aubrey's calm voice talking me through it 😉

I love that this is clearly filmed in a college! Looks exactly like the college in Ystrad Mynach where I learned to wallpaper :) Thank you Aubrey - really well explained, very clear

Great video!

You can't go wrong watching Aubrey but you will hear his voice every time you smooth out your paper afterwards

so helpful top tips 👏

Sorry to be pedantic but…. the first piece turns the corner at least 5mm but in some places more. For the second piece you measured 28cm from (the top of wall) where you had the 5mm turn. You didn’t say you used the pencil marks as a vertical guide, in fact you said be on the pencil marks - so the second piece would just touch the first piece at the top (but not reach the corner) and would overlap everywhere else. If you used the pencil marks as a guide only and put the second piece just to the corner at the top, elsewhere it would surely turn the corner and need to be trimmed??

Thank you for sharing this with us. Nice job. Well explained.

Great Video. Thanks for taking time to make this and assist other people.

Cheers mate u sound like a real top bloke as well mate could listen to u all day

Thats the right way to do it.wipe paste off ceiling and dado rail as you go.i find canvas garden bad handy the ones from aldi can fold down takes bin bag no cleaning up at the end of job

Why did I watch this video after I have finished papering our Dining room. If I had followed this method I would have saved a lot of trouble 👿 I will adopt this method once we begin to decorate our Living room 👍Thanks for sharing.