Vinyl wall stickers: selection and application
Vinyl stickers on the walls began to be used for the interior not so long ago. These are various drawings embedded on a self-adhesive film.
Most often, such technologies are used in the design of advertising signs. But for the design of the room should use specific solutions and ideas. There are large compositions, or small colorful parts.
Today we will tell you how to choose the right vinyl wall stickers for different types of interiors. Also in the video in this article and photo you can find ready-made solutions and choose the best option.
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What are the benefits of vinyl stickers
It is important to note that self-adhesive stickers in the interior have two distinctive properties, which is important:
| Firstly, they are durable. | They do not lose their external attractiveness over time, they are easily cleaned and hardly give in to external influences. The time will come to change the furniture in the apartment, and vinyl decorative wall stickers will still serve as strength and truth. |
| Secondly - the ease of their removal | If you need to move them, then peeling them off the wall will not require much effort. For example, you can use these stickers only once, for some children's holiday, and then just peel them off. |
How and where to apply such interesting stickers
There are no specific restrictions on the use of interior stickers.
Attention: Stickers are used to transform any room: from the nursery to the toilet. The only rule when using stickers is imaginative creativity.
But, if the fantasy stands still, it is better to use special catalogs, where there are photographs designed using stickers of the premises. There are special firms that themselves will come up with a design and bring it to life.
Frequent style decisions in the interior are stickers with drawings of animals, flowers, fruits, etc.
In the bedroom, you can design from the most delicate and light colors.
In the hallway you can create a whole lively composition with stickers in the form of abstraction, which will joyfully welcome guests of your home.
And the living room can be changed so that it turns into an art object.
Stickers can also serve as a solution to minor problems: stickers can be glued to the painted parts of the wallpaper, to places that do not look aesthetically pleasing. Moreover, the stickers can be easily removed, and with the age of the child come up with a different design for him.
In childhood, cartoon characters are of most interest to a child, and as they grow older, each child already has hobbies and hobbies.
Procedure for attaching a vinyl sticker to a surface
So, after choosing a sticker suitable for your room, it remains only to attach it to the required place with high quality.
You need to have some tools on hand:
- Conventional marking pencil;
- Dry clean cloth for processing the finished surface;
- Plastic flat surface for aligning an already glued sticker;
If the sticker is very large, then you should not do business alone, it is better to hire an assistant friend.Sometimes large compositions stick together in separate parts. For example, a large lion, first stick his head and smooth the surface, then paws, then legs.
The following rules have been prepared for this procedure:
- First, the sticker itself must be held with a heavy object to get rid of the air inside and the bubbles.
- The surface on which the sticker will be glued must be cleaned of dust and dirt with a dry cloth, notice that it is not wet, but dry.
- Attach a mock-up of the sticker to the wall and circle it with a pencil.
- Separate the bottom layer from the sticker gradually, in parts, and start gluing, attach to the already prepared marks.
- The glued surface must also be leveled so that no air remains inside.
- At the end, remove the protective film from the sticker, and admire the result.
If there are places in the house that have long been in need of new wallpaper or painting, it is best to hide them from the prying eyes with the help of large and small stickers. After all, one does not always want to spend big money on, even small repair work.
Today, nothing is cheap, and especially building materials. And vinyl stickers are both an irreplaceable element of a decor, and the assistant in elimination of household defects.
A variety of design solutions using original stickers
Any room will be significantly transformed by a design with vinyl stickers.
Attention: An important advantage is the quality of the material of the stickers, which does not cause the slightest harm to the human body. Therefore, creating a design even in the room of a small child, do not worry about his health.
In modern times, there are a lot of different design options using vinyl stickers, a restriction for these options are only personal tastes and preferences of households.
A large number of advantages can be found in such a magnificent material as vinyl stickers for interior rooms:
- Decorating with stickers is much cheaper than regular, even cosmetic repairs. In children's rooms, most often decorate the sleeping area and the playing area. The play area is usually decorated with cars for boys and castles for princesses for girls, and the sleep area with a starry sky or calm stickers of aquatic fish.
- For the play area, it is best to use vinyl wall stickers in the nursery of useful content - these are the alphabet, numbers, poems, English words. Children will not like monochrome compositions, do not spare colorful stickers for your favorites.
- Vinyl wall stickers for the kitchen can well be attached in the form of trees, flowers and fruits. This raises both appetite and mood.
To give coziness and comfort to the room, vinyl wall decals sakura fit best. Experienced craftsmen advise resorting to compositions with a floral style.
- In the living room - it can be a sticker of a vase with bright colors, and in the bedroom - a shelf with books. Books are quite suitable for a nursery.
The stickers are hygroscopic, so in the bathroom they can be glued as much as you like. But for the bathroom, marine motifs are best.
Vinyl wall stickers on wood are acceptable for any room and will decorate your interior.
Vinyl wall stickers for butterflies can give lightness and airiness to a room.
The operation of vinyl stickers is very simple and does not require much effort. You can independently stick at home, both a lot of small stickers, and large compositions.
Attention: The main thing is that the finished surface does not have defects and is not dirty, so that the sticker fits smoothly and evenly.
So:
- Ideal options for stickers are smooth familiar wallpaper (see.Types of wallpaper: how to choose for yourself), evenly painted walls, plastic panels, smooth wooden surface, multi-colored tiles, etc. But the tile should initially be degreased if it could get dirty, for example, in the kitchen.
- Mandatory label stickers that you want to stick. If you cannot make a sketch with a regular pencil, then you can deal with an unevenly glued sticker that will not look aesthetically pleasing and spoil your entire interior.
- Remember that even vinyl stickers should be combined with your overall room interior, as well as with the objects that are in it.
- Vinyl stickers will come to help not only in creating the design of the walls of the room, but also will give a special unique style to individual objects in the room. For example, they can create a bright and original refrigerator. Even the toilet in the house can be decorated somehow funny and unpredictable.
- Their price is not large and this, of course, is an important argument at the present time. Those who do not yet know the benefits of vinyl stickers should immediately bring them to the repair of their home or apartment.
Do not forget to follow the progress of gluing the picture, because if even small bubbles form under the sticker, then the whole result is already down the drain. If you can’t cope with it yourself, then trust the specialists who will come up with an original design solution for any of your room.
Vinyl wall stickers are available for sale, they can be found in stores for home and interior. Choose only those stickers that you yourself like that you want to see every day in your house and the instructions will help you with this.
