Paint/Wallpaper installation recommendation?
Hi there,
I'm looking for recommendations of reasonably priced person to do a small paint/wallpaper installation job. It's a medium sized room - 2 walls to be painted and 2 walls to be wallpapered. I reached out to one highly reviewed person on Yelp and the quote was nearly $900. I'm skeptical around how high this cost is - we're supplying the paint and wallpaper, so this is really labor and supplies costs only. Anyone else have a contact of someone more reasonable or can give me a sense if this is a normal cost?
Thanks in advance!
Jan 14, 2017
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In my experience, the people who do wallpaper don't typically also do painting, and vice versa. So you might try hiring a painter to do the painting and a wallpaper person to do the wallpaper. Ask the wallpaper person whether they want you to paint before or after the wallpaper goes up. It depends on the room, and the surface for the wallpaper has to be specially prepared. About 5 years ago I hired a local wallpaper person that I found on a google search. The wallpaper was an 18" border around the ceiling of my 20' by 20' living room. The labor cost me $800. The paper cost close to that, so I wanted somebody good, and she WAS good, and it looks fantastic. So yeah, $900 is ballpark.