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I am in love with my new wallpaper! It revamped my bedroom, giving it a modern and classy look. This project costed me $28 for the wallpaper and around $10 for the supplies. My hubby and I hung it together and took 2.5 hours to cover our wall around 3m by 3m. 

The supplies needed is 

Wallpaper

Adhesive 

Level

Adhesive Brush 

Smoother(s) 

The Adhesive I bought was the type that was clear and required no mixing with water. It was a lot cleaner to work with and this amount was just enough for  our 3m by 3m wall. It was around $6.99 at Home Depot. 

Adhesive brush was used to apply the adhesive to the wall. We had to make sure we applied a thick layer to the wall as thin layers dried too fast. This was around $3.95 at Home Depot. The only thing I did not like was that this shape brush does not fit very good with the adhesive container I purchased (above) 

I purchased 2 types of smoothers. The top one with felt was around $4 and the yellow flat smoother was less than $2 at Home Depot. In my opinion the yellow flat smoother was the better one to work with as it was easiest to use and make creases for the ends. 

The wallpaper I purchased was a design from Grahamandbrown.com however, i purchased them from Homesense. I was able to get a good deal on them because the packaging was open and some of the paper at the end was damaged so I asked for a discount at HomeSense. (1 roll at $9 and 1 roll at $16, last roll was at $23 but i was able to return it since only 2 rolls was required for the 3m by 3m wall) 

It was alot easier if you have 2 people to work on this project. these were the steps we took. 

Using a ladder we placed the wallpaper at the top and measured accordingly to what we needed. We had to ensure we left extra space at the top and bottom in case. We applied the adhesive by brushing the glue from the top to the bottom. 

Then we hung the wallpaper and used the smoother to brush out the bubbles. The hardest part was matching up the patterns to ensure there were no creases in between the strips. For some of them it took a few tries for us to match up the pattern correctly. 

Lastly, we used an exacto knife to cut off the ends at the ceiling and floor.