The aspiration is peculiar to people as it is possible to equip more cozy and more beautifully the family slot. The fabric upholstery of walls very well is suitable for this purpose. The walls decorated by fabric look elegantly and magnificently. But, unfortunately, service prices of specialists in decor not consolatory. However it is possible to upholster wall with fabric also the hands.
It is required to you
- - fabric,
- - hammer,
- - dowel nails,
- - panel nails with decorative hats,
- - hacksaw,
- - screw-driver,
- - narrow wooden rails with section 1 on 5,
- - construction stapler,
- - chalk,
- - decorative ribbon or baguette,
- - antistatic,
- - construction plumb.
Instruction
1. Measure walls and calculate fabric consumption. Prepare the cloth equal to the wall size with allowance about 4 cm from all directions. When choosing patterned fabric buy it 10-20% more to have opportunity to combine drawing pattern. The percent depends on the drawing size – than it is larger, the fabric reserve has to be that more.
2. Wash out wall. Build framework from rails on all perimeter of wall so that from outer side of framework there was gap in 3 mm for fabric bend for rails. Framework you fix to wall on dowel nails. Arrange additional vertical rails through 500-800 mm. Check correctness (perpendicularity) of arrangement of vertical rails plumb. Pay attention to availability of sockets, switches or lamps on wall. Prepare rails for frame and fix them around electric devices with gap between rail and the device for fabric bend.
3. Unroll fabric and process it special antistatic which blocks dust attraction on fabric. Begin to fix cloth from the top left corner. Attach fabric the construction stapler, having left 2 cm from edge for bend. Pull cloth in the direction towards the right corner and beat the stapler to the top rail. The distance between attachment clamps has to make 5-10 cm. Then fix fabric on the lower rail, vertical additional rails and frame of electric devices. Having pulled cloth to elasticity, attach it to side rails.
4. Places where on wall there are electric devices, mark on cloth with chalk and make an incision fabric. Accurately fill surplus of fabric inside by means of the screw-driver. Fix by nails with decorative hats fabric in the right places on all area of wall. By means of such nails it is possible to execute ornament, having beaten them in certain order. Disguise places of fastening of fabric to framework tape, decorative eaves or baguettes.