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    Old 12-26-2010, 06:56 AM
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    I have been looking for wallpaper for one wall of my dining room for about a year. I can not find what I like. But! I found some fabric at my local quilt store that is exactly what I have been looking for.
    Does anybody know of a way to use it to cover my wall? :?:
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    Old 12-26-2010, 06:59 AM
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    There is a recipe of 1/2 water, 1/2 starch, soak the fabric until it is really wet, wring out and apply to the wall. I'll google it and see what I find.

    http://www.decoratorsecrets.com/diy-...wallpaper.html

    You can also staple if your pattern helps hide the staples.
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    Old 12-26-2010, 07:00 AM
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    Why don't you make a nice large quilt using the material and then paint the wall a very light color that corasponds to the quilt material. When you get tired of the design you have a nice quilt and can make a new one in new tones.
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    I saw a program on HGTV years ago where it was being done, so you might find instructions on their website.
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    Old 12-26-2010, 07:03 AM
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    I have had friends that use it just like wall paper. They primed the wall then pasted and applied the paper. You have to be more careful of stretching with fabric, but it help up really well. She ran in across instead of up and down and only did 1 width with a chair rail at the top. If you want to do the whole wall I think you'd have to put something over the seams because of matching raw material edges.

    Good luck and let us know how you make out.
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    You can use fabric to cover your wall, but it will stretch and distort very easily if you try and paste it on. It is the motion of smoothing it out, that can easily distort it.
    I am a do it yourself person, but in this case, I would hire a professional :wink: :D:D:D
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    My girlfriend just turned under the raw edges and smoothed them out, you could hardly see where the edges/seams were. She was using a plaid so that was easier to match and hide the seams.:)
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    Originally Posted by juliea9967
    I have been looking for wallpaper for one wall of my dining room for about a year. I can not find what I like. But! I found some fabric at my local quilt store that is exactly what I have been looking for.
    Does anybody know of a way to use it to cover my wall? :?:
    Thanks,
    Julie
    DD and I did this years ago. You use starch to hang it. If you do a google search for 'Fabric as wallpaper' lots of links come up.

    When DD moved (rental) we just pulled down the fabric. I washed it a couple of times to get the starch out. I made a quilt with the fabric and have more in my stash.
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    Be careful to use an adhesive that won't yellow with age and make sure that the walls are super clean with no streaks. A friend of mine and I did this back in the late 60's. We thought that putting the psychodelic print on the wall would be so much easier than trying to paint it. Oh well, youth and mistakes sort of go hand in hand. It wasn't the easiest thing in the world to do. The paste didn't yellow but we forgot to REALLY clean the walls first and that discolored the fabric in spots. Also, I'd never recommend doing this in a house where anyone ever smokes or burns a lot of candles(soy ones aren't too bad)--both of those things really discolor fabrics.
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    Old 12-26-2010, 10:28 AM
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    I'd probably hang a huge quilt on it but I put material on one wall. It was a few years ago but I dipped it in starchy water and used small pins to hold it at the top while I used a damp sponge to wipe it down and get wrinkles out. Let it dry and took pins out. It was great because it came off easy and we were living in base housing at the time!
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