Wallpapering round an opening

[F]

We have a wide rectangular opening (wide doorway, but no door) between a dining room and kitchen.

Both ceilings are to be emulsioned and the vertical faces on the kitchen side of the wall are to be tiled and finished with a plastic edging strip.

The dining room wall to the left and right and above the opening is to be wallpapered but I'm not sure how to treat the underside of the actual opening. Is it emulsioned, in which case I will have raw wallpaper edges along the vertical/underside transition, or is it papered? Or is there a third way?

[Stuart]

Assuming that you havent't yet done the tiling how about papering the dining room left and right walls ,turning the edges over on to the opening wall by about half an inch then papering the underside of the opening ,thereby covering the turned over edge from the living room,then turning the next edge over on to the kitchen wall then tiling that wall . Alternatively don't turn over the second edge ..just trim it to the wall and then do the tiling . To turn the edges over you'll possibly need to make sharp cuts in to the turned over part if it is an arched opening .

[Stuart Noble]

I guess the third way would be to have architrave on the dining room side, and possibly a wood lining on the inside of the opening. You really don't want unprotected edges round a doorway

[F]

That's the bit I wanted! The underside of the opening is papered, not painted.

[Stuart]

Eh.....................??????

[51]

I have an identical situation in my house. I was planning to line the inner surfaces of the opening with timbers. But I'm unsure of what timber to use. The kitchen side will be tiled and dining room side will be painted. I want to have the skirtings on each side to butt against the lining timbers but the timbers would need to be about 11" wide do this. I I was looking at a nice hardwood to do this but at 11" wide would be quite expensive. could use thick plywood with something to finish the edge.

But I'd be interested to hear other ideas.

Arthur

[Stuart Noble]

You wouldn't need an edge as this would be covered by the architrave, and the skirting would meet that. If the inner surfaces are to be painted, just use mdf. Otherwise, something more decorative, like birch faced ply. 11" is too wide for wood, especially as it only needs to be half an inch thick

[51]

Thanks, Stuart. I've had a search for suppliers of birch faced ply and also oak veneered ply for another project. I found a 'Peter Benson Plywood' but they aonly sell to trade or private if they coma and collect.

Do you know any national retailers?

Arthur

[Stuart Noble]

Pretty much any timber merchant should stock birch ply or a pale coloured equivalent. Have them cut it to size for you as a) it is prone to splintering and b) you need spot on accuracy