Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: Varies based on number of rooms

Here's How:

• Lightly sand or prime the walls of your dollhouse so that they are smooth.
• Cut wallpaper to size using an x-acto knife with #11 blade and a metal cork-backed ruler. When using a wallpaper with a distinct pattern, be sure to match the pattern.
• Apply wallpaper paste or YES! paste to paper using a soft foam brush. Make sure you get all parts of the paper - use straight even strokes.
• Wipe your hands with a slightly damp cloth and then apply the paper to the wall. Start with the top left hand corner and smooth the paper into place with your hand or a soft rounded piece of plastic like an old credit card. Press gently at first to get the paper into position and then harder to smooth it onto the wall. Work in one direction to get any air bubbles out.
• Trim any door or window openings with a sharp x-acto knife.

Tips:

• The biggest mistake people make is not getting even coverage of glue. Dry spots of paper make bubbles on the wall. Look at the paper at an angle and look for dull spots - those are the dry areas.
• Some miniaturists apply the paste to the wall of the dollhouse but I prefer to apply to the paper to avoid dry spots.
• If your wallpaper is not vinyl coated, then spray it first with a matte sealer. Look in your art supply store for the matte sealer artists use to seal pastels or chalks.
• Always use a SHARP x-acto blade. It is better to go through x-acto blades than to ruin a nice piece of wallpaper.
• If you are covering electrical or are nervouse about cutting the wallpaper wrong, cut posterboard to size first. Then wallpaper to the posterboard and glue the posterboard to the wall using Tacky glue.

What You Need:

• Dollhouse or Roombox
• Wallpaper
• Wallpaper paste or YES! paste
• X-acto Knife with #11 blades
• Metal cork-backed ruler
• 1" soft foam brush
• Soft slighty damp cloth

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