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Basic Wallpaper Decorating Guide

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Wallpaper - A Tradition of Well-Dressed Rooms

Beautiful walls have long been a part of the decorative history of the home. Whether it's the ancient artist painting hieroglyphics on cave walls, the pioneer stenciling patterns inside a cabin or a contemporary home adding the beauty and texture of wallpaper, we all share the universal urge to surround ourselves with beauty, color and style.

Beautiful walls are decorated - never bare - and wallpaper is the perfect choice for the best-dressed walls. Plain, painted and plastered walls are no matches for the beauty, durability and personality wallpaper conveys. Whatever you want to convey, there is wallpaper to express it.

From restoring a vintage house to its original grandeur to making a stark, contemporary dwelling more comfortable, today's wallpapers offer traditional elegance, country charm, or contemporary sophistication - whatever look you desire. And thanks to modern technology, today's wallpapers are durable, inexpensive and easy to install.


Content Provided by the Wallcoverings Association (WA).




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