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If you have refused the luxuriously brutal design of walls with brickwork or hooligan graffiti, then you are heading straight to a wallpaper salon. With the help of our article, you will learn several recommendations that will help you choose the right wallpaper for your home and withstand the onslaught of a helpful consultant.
When you buy clothes, do you try them on? So, wallpaper is clothing for the home. So feel free to try wallpaper on your wall. You should look at wallpaper not in a roll, but by rolling it one or two meters along the wall. You can attach the sample to the wall and walk away a few meters and evaluate the overall picture. If you still like some wallpaper, buy a test roll and test it in the field, that is, at home.
Pay special attention to lighting. In the salon it usually does not coincide with the home: fluorescent lamps are cooler than the lighting in the apartment. The color of the wallpaper and the feel of it change significantly in rooms facing different directions of the world. So, light, cold wallpaper can take on a dirty tint in a “southern” room, but in a “northern” room sometimes you really want to add warmth and brightness with wallpaper in warmer shades.
It’s a good idea to “try on” the wallpaper separately in sunny and rainy weather - sometimes you may not believe that it’s the same wallpaper!
Try not to buy wallpaper from different collections. Choose one collection - this will allow you to make the interior more harmonious and less colorful. You will have to live with this wallpaper for at least three years.
Of course, if you like to take risks and love experiments, you can choose wallpaper from different collections. But it’s still better to study all the available offers. Professional designers worked on them, making sure that the combination was stylistically correct and at the same time not banal.
As in any business, when choosing wallpaper it is important to clearly define the task. It is useless to wander around looking for something that you simply or suddenly like - the choice of wallpaper is huge, and the process can take a long time. Decide what style you prefer to create in the interior of the room for which you are choosing wallpaper: classic, Provence, modern, modern style, avant-garde. This will narrow your search. An important nuance in choosing wallpaper is zoning the future interior of the room; this will help determine whether you will highlight one or several interior zones.
Modern collections offer a huge selection of wallpaper companions. To give preference to a certain color scheme, it would be good to have an idea of the future filling of the room. If the furniture already lives in your home, take photographs of it. If you are just planning to purchase furniture, doors, etc., stock up on samples of veneers or colors in furniture stores; this will help you not make a mistake in choosing the shade of wallpaper for your room.
By choosing a general style, you can more easily select the design for each room separately. Do not hurry. Your home is just your project.
To be sure, visit several salons. Don't neglect small shops. They are often resellers of well-known companies that do not work for the mass market, but supply capsule collections. By purchasing wallpaper from them, you can be sure of the exclusivity and quality of the chosen product.
Glue wallpaper by type. Each room has its own type of wallpaper. For example, it is better to cover a children's room with eco-friendly wallpaper on a breathable basis, while vinyl wallpaper or non-woven wallpaper can be used for the living room.
If in doubt, opt for a classic collection from a well-known and respected manufacturer. Classic is always high quality and fashionable.
Of course, using the right type of wallpaper is very important. So, for children's rooms we recommend using paper wallpaper. They are very environmentally friendly, and their quality is now very high. Paper wallpaper is also perfect for decorating the living room and bedroom, because we spend quite a lot of time in these rooms. We can recommend vinyl for rooms such as the kitchen, hallway...
