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While engineering the room, not only will
seam placement be planned, but also the location of the mismatch - where
the final strip to be hung will be butted up to another strip and the
pattern may not match.
Two factors affect this decision:
1. pattern of the wallpaper
2. architectural layout of the room.
If hanging an entire room, choose the place where
the partial strip will butt against a full strip, or where the mismatch
will be most inconspicuous. Choose a short area of wall to place the mismatch,
instead of having the mismatch be the length of an entire wall. The ideal
place in most occasions is over a door or window that is not on the focal
wall. There are times when the mismatch will be best placed in the corner
behind a door, even though that will yield a mismatch the length of the
wall.
A natural breaking place such as floor-to-ceiling
fireplace can eliminate a mismatch, but only if the pattern being hung
does not contain large design elements. If there are large design elements,
the pattern needs to be hung with the main part of the design element
symmetrical on each side of the breaking point, and then hang the walls
going both right and left, planing where the mismatch will land.
After the mismatch point has been designated, decide
where to start hanging based on seam placement from the engineering. It
is possible to start in the middle of a wall and work in two different
directions to the mismatch point.
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