Just as every wallpaper design is different, so is every room. There is no hard and fast rule to figure out the number of rolls you need to finish your project. But you can get an idea by measuring the length and width of the walls, which helps to minimize waste and cost.
- Use a tape measure to measure the length and width of each wall to the nearest centimeter.
- Logic may suggest taking door and window measurements along with the walls. But there’s a good reason to ignore them: You’ll end up ordering slightly more wallpaper than you need. Excluding the doors and windows from your measurement should give you just the right amount of excess. Why go for extra? In case of mistakes. You always want to measure for an extra 10% of waste.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT MATCH TYPES?
Your perfect wallpaper arrives in one of three different match types: free, straight, or offset.
FREE MATCH
The easiest wallpaper to hang—free match means no visible joins or seams, no matter how you hang the strips. With hardly any chance of hanging it wrong, you can expect to spend a lot less time and finish with a lot less waste.
STRAIGHT MATCH
Straight match means the left and right edge of one strip match—in a straight horizontal line—with the left and right edge of next strip. Want to check if the match is straight? Just layout two strips next to each other.
OFFSET MATCH
Offset match means the right edge of first strip only matches the edge of the next strip at a specified distance. A 64/32cm offset match, for example, means the design repeats every 64cm and the point at which they match, from left to right, is every 32cm.