The Wall

Sealing your wall is advised by everyone but is it necessary? Its a really technical questions. We have wallpaper hundreds of times not using a sealer and its been 100% fine. But every time we did it  - we knew the history of the wall and what we were wallpapering...

We get a lot of customers wanting to do long corridors and hallways. We love a wallpapered corridor. They can look stunning.    Some advice. Unless you have panelling (tongue and groove or the like) at the bottom, it is better to try and choose a more robust paper type....

Can you wallpaper your ceiling? Why yes - yes you can and it can look amazing. But you do need strong arms- because its different to papering a standard wall. Say for example your room was 300 x 300cm then your drops are now 300 long (rather than the standard...

Do I need to size?  Technically we should say yes. But often the answer is project based. Surfaces may need to be sized if they are especially absorbent such as new plaster. Our friends at Anaglypta have a wee test they recommend: "We always recommend that walls are sized (where necessary)...

Choosing wallpaper for boys rooms is hard. There are oodles of cute unicorn, love heart, rainbow (typical stereo typed) wallpapers for girls but when it comes to boys.... So how do we choose a wallpaper for a boys room?  There are so many ways to choose depending on location, age...

We often get customers who want to wallpaper multiple walls. This is possible and often looks fantastic. However with everything there are some logistics to consider. Remember the old days when everybody wallpapered all four walls? Did you ever notice the corners pulling away? That is because they literally just...

Over the years we have done a lot of wallpapering. Of all kinds and all descriptions. Especially if we get a complaint or a concern - we try and check it out for real. Unfortunately wallpaper is one of those products that if the instructions are not followed then errors...

Our personal experience of using Paste the Paper wallpaper. We have found over the years that pure paper substrates (paste the paper), cannot be cut with a Stanley knife (from personal experience by us!). The paper fibres are too weak to cut this way and must be cut using scissors.  Stanley...

This is a little guide on the type of murals we offer. Where to start? There are so many different types of murals. Most murals are printed/sold by the square metre. You can work out the square meterage of your mural by multiplying height x width. For example 2.4 x 3...

We love murals, we love wallpaper. Sometimes for certain projects one is better than the other. For example if you have a window in the middle of your wall and the mural you like has all the artwork in the centre - then you are probably better off with wallpaper....

Calculating Wallpaper is often not easy. We do it on a day to day basis and can sometimes be 'out' (usually too much wallpaper than too little). This is because some hangers hang in a different way to what we would. So our first piece of advice is to double...

Using mixed batches

The digital era makes it an exciting time to be alive for a wallpaper store. We can print nearly anything. Of course there are always limitations depending on the wall size or the format style of graphics.  We always take a close look when custom printing to see what will...

We print a lot of maps.  Its a complicated business (that we love) and not always straight forward. Some common questions are "Can I have a world map at 200 high x 200 wide". The answer is no. Not really in the traditional sense. World maps as we know them...

Sometimes you just have to get creative. It can often be due to budget, or maybe the ceiling is just too high. Sometimes its because a wallpaper has gone out of production and there just isn't enough. Or maybe the shape just doesn't suit (especially in the case of world...

Custom printing. Where to start? Here at The Inside we love creating totally unique pieces for our customers. But - you have to be brave. Custom printing isn't like buying 'off the rack'. It doesn't come with glossy photos or perfectly styled room shots like normal wallpaper does. You won't...

We know people want samples. We understand that it also leads to trust building. You buy a sample for a few dollars, it turns up and then you trust that company to provide the actual fabric or wallpaper. We have recently only reintroduced sampling after two years of practically no samples...

Print your own Fabric.

We do a lot of world maps - some we borrow, some we make, some we change. We can almost do a map for every circumstance. BUT there is one important ingredient and that is the 'rectangle'. For a world map to look how we traditionally expect a world map...