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<\/a><\/p>\nThe wallpaper<\/strong><\/p>\n After a bit of research on the internet, I selected three possible vendors to print my wallpaper.\u00a0 My first vendor choice ended in a confusing experience with their website.\u00a0 I abandoned that vendor and then selected Blue River Digital (www.blueriverdigital.com).\u00a0 BRD offers several substrate choices; the choice depends largely upon two factors, (1) exposure to direct sunlight and (2) longevity of the intended display.\u00a0 I chose premium vinyl wallpaper and the cost was about $400.\u00a0 (This was a year ago; today\u2019s options and prices have surely changed.)\u00a0 Depending upon the vendor and the material you choose, the cast generally ranges from $3 to $9 per square foot.<\/p>\n Sharpness, color, … the image quality of the final printed wallpaper is excellent.<\/p>\n In terms commonly used to describe photographic paper, this wallpaper has surface that is perhaps between matt and satin.\u00a0 Side light from a window causes a glare on the surface of the wallpaper.<\/p>\n For my wallpaper, the side-to-side ordering was obvious.\u00a0 However, depending upon the particular image, maybe with a repeating pattern, the sequence of the separate panels might not be obvious.\u00a0 Because of this, Blue River Digital includes a number on the back side of each panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n The installation<\/strong><\/p>\n You can hire a professional wallpaper installer or do it yourself.\u00a0 I have hung wallpaper myself on a few occasions (not recently), so opted to install the photo mural myself.\u00a0 A professional could have installed it in far less time than I \u2026 and with less cursing.\u00a0 (To install any wallpaper yourself and avoid the cursing, it\u2019s a good idea to have help from a second person.)<\/p>\n As with any wallpaper installation, the wall does need to be properly prepared before installing the wallpaper.<\/p>\n After applying paste the back of a panel, the panel is folded in half and allowed to sit for a bit.\u00a0 (This is called Booking and is standard practice for wallpaper.)\u00a0 Blue River Digital provides a list of name brand wallpaper pastes that they have actually tested.\u00a0 I took that list to my local hardware store and found that they did carry one of those paste products.\u00a0 My local big-box home improvement warehouse stocked only a generic brand; I expect that would suffice, but I chose to use a paste that was Blue-River-tested.<\/p>\n My print consists of four panels, each 30\u201d wide.\u00a0 At the edge of a panel, the image on a panel overlaps with the image on the adjacent panel, by about one inch.\u00a0 So, when applying each panel to the wall, the panels overlap by one inch.<\/p>\n Because my particular image has some strong vertical and horizontal lines, I was very particular about getting that first piece level and plumb.\u00a0 I removed that first panel from the wall and re-applied it probably three times before I was satisfied.\u00a0 Then I applied the remaining panels, which were easier to install than the first, but still can be difficult to get the two panels exactly aligned.<\/p>\n