Is this a big no no ?

[mkb]

The walls in the house are a mile out....in fact the whole house slopes. I am about to paper a bedroom wall and because of the pattern and the sloping walls it will look skew wiff when hung...am sure it will. Instead of using a plumb and spirit level could I actually put the paper up crooked so that when it's done it doesn't look cock-eyed ? I know the easy solution would be not to use this particular paper but have any of you pros come across this prob and how have you dealt with it? Cheers.

 

[Zampa]

The walls in the house are a mile out....in fact the whole house slopes. I am about to paper a bedroom wall and because of the pattern and the sloping walls it will look skew wiff when hung...am sure it will. Instead of using a plumb and spirit level could I actually put the paper up crooked so that when it's done it doesn't look cock-eyed ? I know the easy solution would be not to use this particular paper but have any of you pros come across this prob and how have you dealt with it? Cheers.

Yes yes,,that really is a big no no!

It will look even worse at the internal and external corners.

plus it will give you a right headache when it comes to putting smaller bits in and the end of a run becasue the will be weird shapes.

If your a religous man pop into a church and ask god how his son would do it...because a solution other than changing the paper really is in the miracles dept.

Id go for a paper with a small very busy irregular pattern on it...avoid large symetrical patterns

 

[apinnyon]

I know the DIY way is "squint and it will be ok" but please always hang the paper plumb. Once it's up you won't notice that the walls are wrong. Leaning patterns WILL annoy the heck out of you.

Katie

 

[54aardvark]

Ditto Zampa - avoid the big patterns and it'll look OK

 

[billyo]

when i doubt leave it out.