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Inside corner techniques are required for achieving professional results. You don't want to simply "wrap" the corner in on continuous strip of wallpaper for a number of reasons. First, you want to use the corner to re-align the paper coming out of the corner to get it started down the new wall plum and level. Second, you don't want your corners to "bag" or rip which almost always happens when you wrap a corner.
Hanging Wallpaper - Inside Corners
Don't wrap the corner - cut it - the right way
The first rule is don't wrap the corner you must cut at the corner - but not just anywhere. There are a couple of ways that I do inside corners the first way is the simplest and I will show how to do that here - I will call this method the"standard" way of doing inside corners. Most paper hangers use this standard method. There is one other method of hanging inside corners that I do in which you can avoid a mismatch in the corner - there are a couple of variations of this method which I will save for discussion on another day.
The "standard" inside corner method
Side A: Going into the corner
As you approach the inside corner when you have less than a whole strip width you need to stop and get the longest measurement from the last strip to the inside corner. Take your tape measure and get the measurement from last strip to the inside corner - do this along the whole length of the strip. Once you have determined the longest measurement - add 1/4 inch to that measurement and that will be the width that you will cut your next strip (you are going to split the next strip into two sides "A" and "B". If you have measured correctly and added 1/4 inch your strip will run into the corner and onto the next wall by at least 1/4 inch. We will call the first half of your strip "A" and the second half "B".
The reason you need to be longer than the exact width is so you will not cover it up with your paper and you will be able to see it. Only slightly longer that the width, so that you can visually keep the spacing from your plumb line to the edge of the paper equal insuring a plumb vertically hung strip B. I use my laser level to establish the level line near the ceiling also running it through a selected piece of pattern this insures that the pattern does not run up or down as I hang the paper on the whole wall.
Slide strip B into the corner until it is in the corner from top to bottom AND it also must be lined up parallel to my plumb line that I have put down just wider than the width of the strip. Once this strip is smoothed down and trimmed at the top and bottom you will need to trim it back on the "back overlap" into the corner using your plastic smoother and single edged razor.
The last thing I do is to pull up the overlap at the inside corner and put some Vinyl on Vinyl glue on the 1/4" overlap right at the inside corner. Smooth the corner back down and clean up with a sponge and clean water at the ceiling, base and the inside corner (and anywhere else you may have gotten any glue or activator). You have just "turned the corner" and hung an inside corner with wallcovering.
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Once side A is smoothed down and trimmed at top and bottom, you will also trim the amount of overlap on the new wall to a consistent 1/4" from top to bottom using your plastic smoother as a guide and a new single edged razor. Be sure to tuck the paper tightly into the corner so that there is no air or "bag" in the corner.
Side B: Coming out of the corner
You need to come out of the corner plumb and level. To do this you will establish a plumb line with your level at a distance slightly longer than the width of "side B'.
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