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Wallpaper:
• brightens a dark room
• adds character to a dull room
• creates a cozy atmosphere
• frames the room’s best features
• warms up a room which has no architectural features
• reveals your personality more than any other wall treatment

How to Instructions:

How to Hang Wallcoverings
Decorating with Borders
Hiring a Professional
Removing Wallpaper
Options for Rough Walls
How to Prevent Shrinking Seams
Understanding Wallcoverings
Estimating Quantities Needed
Wallpaper Supplies and Tools

Wallcoverings: Decorating by the Book

Page through any wallcovering collection at Hirshfield’s and you open a world of decorating possibilities. Wallpaper could be called the great impersonator. It can change the visual appearance of your room in many ways. Decide what you want to accomplish in each room in your home. How do you want to feel when you go into a particular room? Wallpaper, like a fine set of clothing helps you make the most of your room’s strong points, while masking its weaker features. In addition, wallpaper features patterns such as stripes and overall prints to perform optical illusions that can make rooms that ordinarily look too long, too boxy or that have low ceilings seem more proportionate.
Wallpaper makes the greatest impact in your room, in a single application No other decorating product offers so much color, design and coverage to suit any mood, taste and budget.
Wallpaper is easy to install Don’t be fooled! Hanging wallpaper is fun and easy – when you follow the manufacturer’s instructions that come with every roll. You can also count on the experts at Hirshfield’s to give you helpful hints to make the job easier.
Wallpaper sets a theme Use wallpaper throughout the house. Today’s wallpaper collections feature a host of coordinating patterns, borders and color schemes that create a unified design theme throughout your home.
Wallpaper makes the most of your favorite things Do you like sailing, golfing, the seashore? Do you collect pipes, dolls, china or impressionist prints? Do you love the outdoors? Wallpaper can help accentuate your favorite pasttime.
Wallpaper creates details where once there were none Wallpaper is an economical way to add missing architectural elements to a room. Create a chair rail with a wallpaper border. Draw attention to a fireplace or create a focal-point wall with a strong pattern. All it takes is a little imagination.
Wallpaper coordinates with the looks you love Today’s wallpaper designers have captured virtually every fashion statement popular today from fresh country looks to upscale modern motifs.
Wallpaper adds value to your home Wallpaper covers flaws in wall surfaces; protects the wall surface from scuffs; provides an air of quality and richness not found in uncovered walls; is an excellent fast-fix for those selling a home; wallpaper offers a wide variety of subtle patterns to neutralize the interior to fit anyone’s lifestyle; adds value to your most important investment. Studies show that a tastefully decorated home can attain a 10% to 15% increase in property value.
Wallpaper is always IN Wallpaper is a timeless decorating product. As new styles emerge, wallpaper designers capture them, define them and present them in a variety of color choices. With its ability to capture any style or color scheme, wallpaper helps you express your personality and style!