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Stain matching old wood trim in your Toronto home
Many older Toronto homes have stained and varnished trim, if I have newer trim installed can this be matched to the existing trim? Stained and varnished trim highlights the beauty of the wood, so it’s a shame to paint over it. Here is our process to get you the...
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Dark Wallpaper Tips
I have a dark wallpaper to install in my Toronto home. I’ve heard that the seams can really show on dark papers, how do you prevent this from happening? What is the issue with installing a wallpaper with a dark background colour? The basic issue is that if some...
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Toronto Accent Wall Project: Chevron Stencil
Are you looking for something a little different? Maybe you’ve found a wallpaper pattern that you like, but you can’t find it in the colour that you like? That’s what happened to this family. Their daughter wanted a specific pattern in a specific colour,...
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Do I need lining paper for my Toronto wallpaper installation?
“I’ve opened up my roll of wallpaper and I see in the instructions that they recommend a lining paper, What does this mean?”. In this post we’ll go through what lining paper is, what it does and when it should be used.
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Wallpapered Walls and Flat Screen TV’s – Which do you install first?
Many people like to have wallpaper installed on the same wall as their TV is mounted, which is a great look for your Toronto home. But this begs the question, should you have the wallpaper installed first, or the TV mounted to the wall first? To answer this question...
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Toronto Wallpaper Project: 7 Accent walls
We recently completed a project in the east end of Toronto that consisted of 7 separate accent walls, and the client was delighted. Here's what we did: How much wallpaper is too much? The first question you might ask is, 7 different types of wallpaper in one house,...
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Toronto Wallpaper Installation Project: 2 Storey Fireplace
Recently we transformed the fireplace in a loft in the west end of Toronto with wallpaper. This wasn’t a typical installation and it required more problem solving than a normal wallpaper installation. Let’s go through how we did it: Material requirements First, we...
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Want to install a wallpaper mural in your Toronto home?
One of the things we’ve been doing more of the last few years is mural installation. Murals are a specialty subset of wallpaper and were traditionally very hard to source. Traditional paint stores with their books of wallpaper, just weren’t able to offer them. Now,...
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Chalkboard Calendar installation in Toronto!
Have you ever thought about having a chalkboard calendar in your Toronto home? How about a magnetic chalkboard calendar? We did just that for a cooking studio in the west end of Toronto. WATCH THE VIDEO: Here are the steps that we did… Products Tape - We used Frog...
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Can Existing Wallpaper be Wallpapered over instead of removed?
Wallpaper can be difficult to remove sometimes. Sometimes it does damage to the walls when it’s removed. In these cases can we wallpaper over the existing wallpaper in your Toronto home? In most cases the answer is yes, if certain steps are followed so that the new...
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