- Switch Plate
- Wallpaper
- Professional Border Adhesive for Wallpaper and Wallpaper Borders
- Small Paintbrush
- Razor, Wallpaper or Craft Knife
- Screwdriver
- Pencil
Steps for How to Cover a Switch Plate with Wallpaper
- Hold the wallpaper on the wall over the place where to switch plate will go.
- Line the wallpaper up with the wallpaper already on the wall.
- Cut the section of the wallpaper that overlaps the place where to switch plate will go leaving 3 to 4 inches on either side.
- Put the switch plate on the wall.
- Put the wallpaper piece over the switch plate cover.
- Line the wallpaper up with the wallpaper already on the wall.
- Press your fingers tightly against the wallpaper and the switch plate.
- Put one or two of your fingers behind the switch plate while holding the wallpaper in place.
- Pull the switch plate and the wallpaper piece away from the wall.
- Put the switch plate and wallpaper down with the back of the switch plate facing up.
- Delicately fold the edges of the wallpaper over the switch plate without letting the switch plate move across the wallpaper.
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Pick up the switch plate and the wallpaper.
- Put the switch plate and the wallpaper on the wall.
- Check to see if the wallpaper on the switch plate lines up with the wallpaper on the wall.
- If it doesn't, adjust the wallpaper piece until it does.
- After finding the correct position, crease the wallpaper heavily around the switch plate.
- Write which side of the wallpaper piece is up using a pencil on the upper edge of the folded part of the wallpaper.
- Set the switch plate aside.
- Use the small paintbrush to spread the professional border adhesive onto the section of the wallpaper where the face of the switch plate will be.
- Find which side of the top of the switch plate.
- Put the switch plate down on the wallpaper with the top of the switch plate on the side of the wallpaper that says "up."
- Press firmly on the switch plate.
- Wrap the edges of the wallpaper around the switch plate.
- Put the switch plate on the wall.
- Check to make sure the edges of the wallpaper around switch plate line up with the wallpaper on the wall.
- If it does not line up, adjust the wallpaper.
- Trim the edges of the wallpaper so that the wallpaper just curls over the edge of the switch plate.
- Put border adhesive on the edges of the wallpaper with the small paintbrush.
- Fold the edges of the wallpaper over the switch plate.
- Press the edges of the wallpaper down firmly against the switch plate.
- Let the switch plate dry until the wallpaper no longer moves across the switch plate.
- Cut holes where the switches will be with a razor, wallpaper or craft knife.
- Poke holes where the screws will go.
- Let the switch plate completely dry.
- Put the switch plate on the wall.
- Secure the switch plate on the wall with the screws.