24/03/2018
1. WALLPAPER DURABILITY: LONG LASTING & CLEANABLE
Wallpaper is durable, long lasting, and cleanable to meet the needs of different lifestyles and applications, holding up to the wear and tear of children or conditions in high traffic areas. According to a lifecycle analysis, it was established that wallcoverings now can last five times longer than paint under typical usage conditions.
While wallpaper may require a little more knowledge to apply, most wallpaper will have a lifespan between 10-15 years making the work last a long time once it is installed. On the other hand, a painted wall chips and cracks over time, and requires more frequent cleaning to keep it looking fresh. It likely needs repainting after only a few years and in turn requires more work which can now be a process messier than wallpapering with new easy install paste the wall technology.
wallpaper can be lightly cleaned with a sponge or damp cloth and a simple detergent solution to get rid of dirt.This makes it great for spaces like living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms and will clean easily with gentile sponging.
2. HIDES IMPERFECTIONS
In instances where you want to hide a wall such as in cases where walls are damaged, cracked, uneven, or not perfectly square, wallpaper can be helpful to mask these imperfections that will be most noticeable with only paint. Both paint and wallpaper have the ability to liven up bland spaces but wallpaper goes a step further with its ability to disguise flaws which can be much less time consuming and tedious than fixing all the little or big imperfections throughout the wall.
3. FASHIONABLE & IN STYLE
Wallpaper is back and is being specified by designers all over with features in magazines and blogs such as Hunted Interior and House and Home Magazine. Wallpaper is definitely on trend with its new cutting edge technologies and contemporary styles to give your home a designer look.
4. BUDGET FRIENDLY
While in the short term it would seem that paint is a more cost effective option, but if you weigh in the long term costs wallpaper can actually be more cost effective. If you repaint your space approximately every few years to keep it looking fresh then investing in wallpaper that will last you 10-15 years will result in more savings for you in the long run. Using both paint and wallpaper together can also give you the best of both providing long and short term savings while giving you that bold and one-of-a-kind impact and texture with wallpaper.