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# Wallpapering shown in an engraving and a repair method unchanged for centuries
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- Published: 2021-07-13T20:14:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:54:29.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Observations, Mores, Humour

As an experienced foreman and connoisseur of renovation matters, I cannot help wondering: do these gentlemen hang their wallpaper from the corner or towards it? The engraving does not settle the matter at once: whether the new chequered paper is going up in place of the old-fashioned kind with pilasters, or the other way round. By the rules of the craft it ought to be from the corner. Nevertheless, my dears, the procedure as a whole has not changed in centuries: a bucket of paste, a coffee table, a stepladder, and in a Khrushchev-era flat you are at least two