Ask The Builder
The first thing you need to do is prepare the room for wallpaper. This means the ceiling needs to be painted, all cracks between the woodwork and walls need to be caulked, the walls need to be sealed with a special wallpaper primer, and the woodwork needs to be painted.

Experts share predictions for 2012
Perhaps sometime between now and Dec. 21, 2012, will be beginning of the end. In fact, some think the end is already here, and they welcome any prophecies for an end to it all now or any time in 2012 — but we’re talking about the prolonged real estate market downturn here.

BUILDER
Use a 6-inch wide flexible drywall taping knife to help you trim the paper at the ceiling and where it touches woodwork. If the knife is new, take a metal file and round off the sharp edges of the tool. Failure to do this will cause the paper to tear if you slide the blade along the paper.

JERGLER
2) Prices rising 25%? That’s not going to happen next year. However, I agree that this is the bottom, of the bottom, of the bottom. We’re five and a half years into prices falling — June 2006 was our peak of the last mountain.