Fun Kill Point With Schumacher Versailles

The kill point is your last corner in a room, where your last strip of wallpaper meets up with the first strip you hung hours ago. This virtually always results in a pattern mis-match, In the photo above, if I were to add the next strip of wallpaper to the right of the striped section, in the order it’s supposed to be hung, a mis-match would result when that design lands in the corner and bumps against the leaves and flowers to the right.

I thought I could make it look better. Instead of matching the pattern in proper sequence coming from the left, I decided to cut a fresh strip and match it with the strip on the right.

This gave me a perfect pattern match. But left me with a 1″ gap between the strips.

I could fill that gap in with a strip of plain blue paper, cut from scrap wallpaper in the trash pile. But this particular pattern didn’t have any areas with 1″ width of unprinted paper. So I used my straightedge and a razor blade and cut two 1/2″ wide strips of paper the height of this area over the door.

Here I have placed the first of these next to the strip on the right.

Here I have butted the second 1/2″ strip up against the first one, and am tucking it underneath the striped strip to its left. The vertical lines in the design will disguise any ridges caused by the overlap. Besides – who’s gonna notice this 9′ up, anyway?

Here it is, finished and smoothed into place. Note that these strips are still wet, and will be homogeneous in color once they all dry.

Here’s the finished corner. Remember – it still needs to dry. You can’t notice that there’s an inch of extra blue space in there.

From a distance.

Tags: butted, design, door, gap, kill point, last corner, mis-match, overlap, pattern, razor blade, schumacher, sequence, straightedge, strip, Versailles, wallpaper