Wall Covering Ideas

Most probably nothing will transform a wall as quickly as a new wall covering. Choose your style, your color scheme, than you can decide what wall treatment will work best for you. So let's go over some wall covering ideas: paint, wallpaper, fabric, or paneling.

Wall Covering Options

When choosing any of the wall covering options, you have to take into consideration their aesthetic qualities and the practical ones as well.

Some of the most known wall covering are:

• Paint - by far is the easiest and the least expensive way to transform your walls. It's also considered the most popular one. An overall uniform finish can be achieved by almost anyone.

  Also the decorative painting finishes can give your walls depth, new style and life. We did the legwork, and put together a "catalogue" with some of the most used of them.

  When it's about decorative techniques for wall painting, you should try first on a small area. Also you will be able to see if it appeals your taste.

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• Wallpapers opens a new world in terms of material variety, patterns, colors and, of course, style. With the "right" wallpaper you can alter the size or shape of the room, or set the color scheme.

  Looking at the practical side, if taken care properly, wallpaper can last for years, considering that you can choose between pre-pasted, washable or strippable.

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• Fabric Wall Covering can be applied over batting as upholstered walls or simply can be stapled or pasted.
  While the stapled fabric is simpler and faster to do, upholstered walls take more time to achieve. In both cases, though, small imperfections in the wall can be covered, and you can improve, up to a point, the insulation of the room.

  On the other side of the coin, please consider that a neat execution of the work is required so your wall will look exquisite as intended.

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• Paneling is another chosen way of covering walls. It can visibly turn your living or dining room from "flat" to "majestic". There are 2 ways to accomplish it: sheet paneling and solid board. Either way you can get a variety of finishes and textures.

  A well executed paneling work can last a lifetime, and it will be easy for your budget to maintain. While it can be used everywhere, we do recommend, as a personal opinion, to panel your walls if you have a house, with fair size rooms. Small apartments are not considered suitable for this type of wall covering.

We looked over all these wall covering ideas. Some of them are easier to put in practice than others.
If you're not a handy person, you want to save your time, or simply put, just in need of an advise, we always recommend to talk to an expert: a home decorator or designer can provide you with the expertise you need, and a contractor can do the work you can't, or don't want to.

Before you decide to hire one, you might want to ask for references from friends or neighbours. Consider also to ask for bids(if you think to hire a contractor), and make comparisons with the ones from competition.

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