Comments on: How I Hung Grasscloth and Lived to Tell About It http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/ Design, decor, and DIY on a dime. Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Roni http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1759529 Roni Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:37:48 +0000 http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/#comment-1759529 I’m surprised people still hang this! We have it in 2 rooms of our home (built in the 70′s) and we hate it! Although our’s isn’t a nice gray, it’s more of a deep brown, making the room entirely too dark.

]]> By: CentsationalGirl http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1590845 CentsationalGirl Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:30:48 +0000 http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/#comment-1590845 Thanks so much Mikenchgo, for all the tips!
Kate

]]> By: CentsationalGirl http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1590791 CentsationalGirl Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:59:08 +0000 http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/#comment-1590791 Thanks so much Mikenchgo, I appreciate all the tips!
Kate

]]> By: Mikeinchgo http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1590648 Mikeinchgo Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:01:32 +0000 http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2009/08/how-i-hung-grasscloth-and-lived-to-tell-about-it/#comment-1590648 I worked for a professional paper hanger when I lived in San Diego in the late 80′s. We did track homes and installed various types of paper backed vinyls and papers.

The previous comment by the professional hangar is correct – you should always prepaste your paper before trying to hang and let it rest. If you follow the directions and work your way down from the ladder with a prepasted sheet you do not need the staples at all – once it sets and is in place at the top, the paper will not move as long as you do not tug on it. The firs step is to establish your level lie vertically – start about 1″ away from a corner and make very LIGHT pencil lines – be careful when following those lines because the past will allow the lead to leach into the glue and if you have a lighter paper or grasscloth you will end up with grey tint from the lead on your seams and you do not want that. A chalk line is worse because that chalk is very dusty and always leaches into the paste and into the seams – so a light vertical level pencil line is the best I have found.

Also, double cutting is the key to perfect seams when hanging wallpaper – if you master the art of a double cut using the best and sharpest blades, you will be very happy with the results of any paper hanging project.

Although I am not a professional hangar, it has been my understanding that the best results often come from alternating the pieces top to bottom sort of like railroading the materials since grass-cloth is a random pattern and not a match.

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