The unusual pattern of this wallpaper allows for many small passe-partouts and gave us the idea, to combine an existing image with it. We decided on a classic James Dean poster (for about 11 Euro from KulturBuch in Hamburg, Telephone [040] 45 25 25), with which we decorated a self-made wardrobe wall. The construction of the cloakroom can be found on page 17.
1 To properly place the figure under the wallpaper, must first be precisely defined, which sections are removed from the wallpaper. To do this, draw the contours of the face and figure with a pencil on a piece of transparent paper.
2 This sheet of paper is placed on the strip of wallpaper cut to the height of the cloakroom wall, and so arranged, that the figure has “the right perspective”.. Now the fields,
to be cut out later, mark with a needle and
3 …Cut out along the contours with a paper knife.
4 First place the poster and then the wallpaper on the cloakroom wall, into the specified position and mark the position.
5 Wet the back of the poster with a sponge, paste and stick on the wall.
6 The wallpaper is pasted and glued in the usual way.
With the special seam roller, a perfect transition between two strips of wallpaper is the best.
Especially with patterned wallpaper, the seam should never be visible.