One of the fairly common waysDecorating walls is pasting them with wallpaper. You can create a unique room by combining this material. Wallpaper companions, as a rule, have the same texture, but differ in color. When choosing them, the main task is to determine not only harmonious shades within the pair of material itself, but also a combination of wallpaper and interior items. 
Wallpaper companions should be harmoniously combined with objects of the interior.
The principles of selecting wallpaper for companions
Before, you need to choose the right one.You can view ready-made photos of various interiors on the Internet or go to hardware stores and analyze your favorite options. The first thing to decide on is the main color of the wallpaper, and then complementary shades are selected for it. There are several different combination principles:
- a combination of shades of the same color, for example light beige, dark beige, beige;
- selection of harmonizing colors - yellow, orange, beige, light green;
- Combination of contrasting colors - yellow-lilac, blue-orange.
The scheme of calculating wallpaper for the room. Wallpaper companions on sale are different. Quite a common option - paintings with the same patterns, but different colors. For example, the basis of one type is red, and the pattern is made in white, and for the companion the base one is white and the ornament is red. If the interested type of wallpaper does not have a "factory partner", do not despair. You can find it yourself. There are several rules that should be used when selecting:
- to buy wallpaper companions is best in one salon, since the materials of even one manufacturer of one series in different batches can have several different shades;
- the color or element of the pattern is worth repeating in the decoration of the room;
- Consider the height of the ceilings in the room: if the ceilings are located low, then give preference to the wall covering with a vertical pattern, and if the room is narrow, then you should look at the horizontal ornament directed along the wall;
- an important indicator is the area of the room: in small rooms it is undesirable to use contrasting wallpaper companions, it is better to stay on harmonizing shades, in large, diverse canvases just recommend, because with their help you can achieve the desired zoning;
- it is possible to combine wallpaper with different texture, but in this case they should have either the same background or the same pattern;
- when using contrasting canvases, the following combination is considered optimal: one is a background, preferably without a pattern (and if there is, then quite small and inconspicuous), the latter with a bright ornament.
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Options for gluing wallpapers
You can glue wallpaper companions in different ways. The most commonly used methods of combination are vertical and horizontal. 
Technology of gluing wallpaper. In the first case, as a rule, fabrics having the same texture and width are used. The scheme of their gluing can be different: stripes alternate two or three (less often through one), sometimes the main part of the wall is glued with one kind of wallpaper, and the corners - with another. Here everything depends on the preferences of the owners. If you plan to paste wallpaper in a horizontal way, then you can use completely different textures, styles and widths of canvases. But in this case it is necessary to determine the material for joints. Often used strips of plastic or wood, paper curbs or plinths. In addition, the height on which this joint is located is also important: in a room with low walls the wallpaper should be joined in the middle; If the height is significant, then this line is recommended to be raised higher. But in addition to the basic ways of decorating walls with wallpaper companions, there are also their varieties. One of the most common are insertions. In large rooms, they serve to zoning space, and in small rooms - to create an accent on a certain part of the wall. With the help of these inserts, some details of the interior can be decorated: the head of the bed, the table, the TV and others. It is recommended to hide the places of docking of the main wallpaper and inserts with decorative laths. Back to contents</a>
How to stick the wallpaper correctly?
Scheme for gluing wallpaper for a radiator.There are several things to consider if you plan to glue companion wallpaper. When combining the canvases vertically, it is desirable that the material be of the same thickness: it must be glued end-to-end. Only in this case, the finish will look organic, and the surface will seem to be one whole. Also, don't forget about the markup. With companion wallpaper, it can be performed not only vertically, but also horizontally, parallel to the floor. In some variants of decoration, a combination in the form of complex non-linear fragments is used. With this arrangement, it is recommended to completely apply the entire pasting scheme to the wall. Meanwhile, there are general rules that should also be applied when decorating walls with wallpaper companions. It is necessary to glue them from the window opening. A vertical line is drawn using a plumb line. When the canvases "reach" the corner, then the next sheet must be wrapped on the adjacent wall. In the corner, the sheets are overlapped. Then the excess is trimmed with a carpenter's knife, and the edges are aligned. If the selected wallpaper companions have a pattern, then when cutting them, it is necessary to provide for a shift in the width of the rapport, since the wallpaper will have to be glued taking into account the alignment of the ornament. It is recommended to smooth the canvases with a rubber roller or a spatula. It is not worth stretching the sheets, since after drying they will take their shape, and gaps may appear at the joints. If necessary, a distance of 10-13 mm is set aside from the floor plinth and a horizontal line is drawn using a level. This line will align the side of the sheet. To determine the best match for the pattern, a roll is laid along the wall. Sometimes, to achieve the desired result, the canvas will have to be moved to one side or the other. You can combine wallpapers from different series and collections. In some cases, wall coverings will look great, even from different materials. It all depends on your preference. But it is better to entrust wallpapering to professionals. </ ul>
