Among the interior finishing works the mostwall-papering is widespread and popular. To achieve an original design, you can horizontally. At the same time, the interior of the room stands out either due to the alternation of the pattern, or the colors of the paintings, or simply due to the alternation of the sheets themselves. 
The advantage of horizontal wallpapering is that the repair done in this way gives the room a unique design.
Advantages and disadvantages
When planning to make repairs in an apartment, manywonder if it is possible to glue the wallpaper not vertically, but horizontally. Yes, they can be glued horizontally. This gluing option has its own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the repair carried out in this way gives the room a unique design. At the same time, there is no limit to the flight of imagination. The disadvantages include:
If the originality of the interior, which will be obtained in the room after the walls are wallpapered horizontally, outweighs all the difficulties in the repair, then you can begin the transformation of the house. Back to contents</a>
Wall Preparation
Materials and tools for preparing walls for wallpapering. Required:
- spray;
- putty knife;
- paste;
- Oil paint;
- brush;
- roller;
- putty;
- primer.
Is it possible to glue wallpaper on an unpreparedwall surface? In no event, first it must be carefully prepared. If the surface is an old wallpaper, then they need to be removed. To do this, using a spray gun on them, not too hot water is sprayed and left for some time to soak. After that they are easily removed by means of a metal spatula. If the walls are painted with oil paint, they are washed with hot water with the addition of soap or soda. To glue wallpaper to oil paint, flour or starch paste is used. For this, the paint is applied with strips about 5 cm wide on the surface of the walls from above, from below near the skirting boards, around the window and door openings. Best after painting the first layer, leave everything to dry completely, then paint with a second coat and dry it. Next, the strips are wiped with a cloth soaked in hot water and ground using a peel. In the end, all the places painted with oil paint and the corners of the room are greased with a paste. 
Preparation of walls for wallpapering. If the room is equipped with interior partitions made using dry plaster, plywood, gypsum board, etc. then they must first be prepared. For this, joints of sheets or plates are cleaned, shpatlyuyutsya, painted with oil paint. Or the seams are sealed with gauze, which is shpatlyuetsya, cleaned and painted with oil-based paint. Hats of self-tapping screws or nails, for example, on plywood, should be dug to the ground so that they are immersed in a sheet. Then these places are lubricated with linseed oil, oil paint, shpatlyuyutsya and cleaned. All irregularities, pits and cracks are sealed with putty. For this, first of all, cracks and voids are filled with a small spatula. After drying of the treated areas, the whole surface of the wall is leveled with the putty. At this stage of work it is necessary to use the building level. Further on the dried wall in 1-2 layers by means of a brush and a roller a primer is applied, which is necessary for better adhesion of the surface and wallpaper. The prepared wall should be smooth, smooth and dry. Back to contents</a>
Preparatory stage
Required:
- roulette;
- pencil;
- building or laser level.
Marking symbols on the wallpaper. Before you start to glue the wallpaper on the wall, you need to calculate their number. To do this, determine the area of the room by multiplying the height of the wall by the width. In this case, the height of the room is measured from the floor skirting to the ceiling baguettes. Then a sketch is made, which takes into account all the nuances near the window and doorways, as well as around pipes and heating devices. After that, a decision is made, where better to start and how to paste the wallpaper, so that everything turned out nicely and neatly. Now many rooms are equipped with built-in wardrobes and fireplaces. If the wallpaper with a picture, then, to make it coincide, to glue wallpaper you need to start with one of the sides of the cupboard or fireplace. To combine the pattern on the canvas, two rolls are unfolded, and the pattern is combined either transversally or diagonally, or it does not need to be combined. If you need to combine, sticking the stripes, you need to change their direction, and in order not to get confused, the top of each sheet is marked with a simple pencil. In order for the wallpaper to be horizontally glued exactly, the distance from the lower skirting board at a height of 10-12 mm is noted and a horizontal line is drawn using a level or a level. It is on this line will be exposed to the side of the panel. Then roll to the wall in a horizontal position and select the best match pattern. To do this, first move it one way, then the other, until the optimal result is obtained. To mark the web before cutting, the roll is horizontally applied to the wall, to the drawn line or to the upper edge of the glued piece. Next, combining the pattern, mark the lines on both sides for a cut. In the event that the walls are uneven, the wallpaper is slightly trimmed at the joints, and the place of cutting on the canvas is marked with a pencil. Back to contents</a>
Wall wallpapering
Required: 
Universal adhesive is suitable for wallpaper of any type, and a special adhesive is used only for wallpapers of a certain type.
- wallpaper;
- Wallpaper glue;
- brush;
- roller;
- plastic roller.
In order to paste wallpaper on the wall,need glue. If it is substandard or overdue, then over time, stains appear on the wallpaper, specific smells may appear that are very harmful to health. Glue of a universal kind is suitable for sticking wallpaper of any type. A special kind of it is used for certain wallpapers. There is a wallpaper paste, which already includes antifungal substances that prevent the appearance of mold on the walls. You need to dilute it, following the recommendations on the package. It is important not to allow the formation of lumps. For this, the powder is poured into cold water gradually and with a thin stream. Then everything is mixed for five minutes using a construction mixer. When formed in a mixture of lumps, they must be filtered through a colander. After that, the prepared cloth is laid out with a pattern downwards. To paste the wallpaper without the formation of bubbles, the glue should be applied evenly with a roller or brush, starting from the center and moving to the edges. 
For even gluing wallpaper, you need to use a levelor a level at a height of 10-12 mm from the lower plinth, draw a horizontal line. Then the canvas is folded and left to soak for five minutes. horizontally, it is only necessary with an assistant, since one simply cannot cope with this work. To do this, the glue-coated canvas is raised to the desired height and its middle is glued. Further, by means of a roller or dry soft cloth, the air is dispersed to the edges so as to avoid swelling. Smoothing the wallpaper from the center to the edges should be continued until all the bumps with glue and air are removed. The next horizontal row is joined to the upper edge of the previous glued sheet, aligning the pattern, if necessary. All subsequent strips are glued by analogy. The seams must be rolled with a special roller made of plastic. Using such a roller, the seams are carefully rolled along the entire length so that they become invisible in the future. The air is expelled from under the wallpaper cloth carefully, without damaging it. After wallpapering the entire surface, the glue should dry. During this process, in no case should the windows be opened for several days in order to exclude the appearance of a draft. At the end, the remnants of wallpaper are cut off near the window openings and in the corners of the room. Gluing wallpaper horizontally on the walls is easy, doing the work with a partner. And the result can surpass all expectations both by its originality and by the uniqueness and beauty of the interior.
