When it comes to the ways of decorating bare walls in a new house, what would be the first idea that pops into your head?
I had no idea to pop until I listened to some options for dressing up my walls to a designer who recognized my neighbor in her last engineering work. Options do mean proper methods to help fix problems that we need to take the most appropriate for our own. Two months ago, wall coverings (attach textile fabrics on walls with liquid starch), wallpapers, artworks, and wall retreatment with the best quality paints and moisture-proof primers, were proposed by the decor designer after she visited me.
Firstly, I assume that you would be like me to favor a new house in keeping feelings of comfort, warm, and charm to all visitors when they as your friends call on you, see it, and even live with you for a couple of days in it, but you must do mind, absolutely don’t want to experience messy operation in the dress-up period before it happens, sure to that I know. In addition, there’s no denying as all owner's thoughts are almost the same that they wanna make their walls look expensive, need innovative figures or something new and different on walls rather than the bare walls applied only with a thin plastering and simple top coat, color of paint always is white allowed and finished by building developers. Last, have we ever wondered such makeovers can be takedown whenever we want no matter if they are wallpapers, wallcoverings, or artificial figures? Truly, from the things detailed above, fabrics (or said to be wall coverings) on walls can be an easy and cost-effective way to give rooms, public spaces, and corridors of your new house an instant makeover. (fabrics do add personality to it!)
The decor designer said we ought not to pay a very high price in peeling all original paints and primers off the walls but pay less money to make retreatment for the walls simply upon conditions. You may not wonder that the cost of such wall refurbishment work, for instance, peeling off original wall paints, repainting primers and top coats, and polishing finishes for surfaces, is extremely high, higher than the remaining three, say attaching wall coverings, or wallpapers on the walls, and sticking artworks. Even though you may have to rent a temporary compartment to live in, move affected furniture out as working zoom away the walls, and prepare protective covers for all affected pieces when the work begins to storm your new house. Within the options, I chose removable textile fabric (wall covering) as this was easily one of the most popular wall decor options and as strong advice from the designer.
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# Before work started, workers made for the walls with simple retreatment, removed the uneven plastering pieces, applied a touch-up top coat, and polished the surfaces of the walls.
# Decorating with fabric on walls is quite similar to the process of hanging wallpaper, if you have worked with wallpaper, you’ll have no trouble with this work or you may know what I am here saying. See the worth-talking thing which is left in the picture, removed the cover plate from the wall switch, this is good practice before work begins.
# It was acceptable for such a messy operation, not too much debris and micro particulars had been seen but wall refurbishment would do.
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# The technician used liquid starch to attach the fabric to the wall and was hanging the fabric, he was in this process that required him to take patience I saw that. The Left shows that he used a wallpaper smoothing tool (shape rectangular) to flatten the fabric again the wall, while the Right shows that he was cutting the excess fabric at the ceiling line with a sharp utility knife.
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#The technician had to check residual bubbles by his mobile LED lamp, this process required all light fittings to be turned off, making sure no bubbles were trapped behind the fabric completely. He used a steam machine to heat up the surfaces making the adhesive paste underneath stick securely to the wall.
WORK REVIEW
WORKING TIME: 26 hrs
TOTAL TIME: 2 days
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Thank God all the wall coverings had done satisfactorily, it was a perfect thing to put fabric on walls for my new house without damaging them over the refurbishment works and repainting. I appreciate so much all the blessings from my God as not only do they look great when done right, but also added value to my house.
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Before fabrics
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After fabrics
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in him & best regards
