![]() We strongly recommend our wallpaper calculator to help you determine the quantity you need. This means you can hang drop after drop of your wallpaper without needing to match elements across the seam from the first drop to the second, so you can use every bit of roll as it comes! The only other occasion where pattern repeat doesn’t have a particularly significant impact on your wallpaper calculation is when the design has a Free Match, which is typical of most stripe designs and shiplap styles, like our popular White Washed Timber wallpaper (pictured above). ![]() Watch Ashley from explain how pattern repeat played a roll in her installation of Geometric Illusions. Likewise, if your design has a 24-inch pattern repeat, you can lose up to 2 feet of wallpaper with every strip you install. For example, if you choose a design with a 10-inch pattern repeat, that means that for every strip of wallpaper you install, you can lose up to 10 inches per drop as you match each consecutive drop. Pattern repeat is important for a few reasons, like visualizing scale, but its most important use is determining how much wallpaper you will need for your space and how much wastage (unused paper) there will be. The actual repeat will vary depending on the design – some will repeat every 3 inches, and others will repeat every 2 feet, and some will not repeat vertically at all (but we’ll get to that later). Simple! The pattern repeat is how far down a strip of wallpaper (vertically) that the design goes until it repeats again. ![]() We’ll start with the easy question: what is a pattern repeat? ![]()
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