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Our guide to [how much wallpaper to order](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/quantities/) shows the same method by hand, or [send us your measurements](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/?intent=install).\n\n1 The wallpaper\n\nRoll size\n\nRolls\n\n- Standard roll, 53 cm × 10.05 m\n- 50 cm × 10 m\n- 52 cm × 10 m\n- 52 cm × 10.05 m\n- 53 cm × 10 m\n- 60 cm × 10 m\n- 68.5 cm × 10 m\n- 68.5 cm × 8.22 m\n- 68.6 cm × 10.05 m\n- 70 cm × 10 m\n- 70 cm × 10.05 m\n- 70 cm × 8.5 m\n- 86 cm × 7.2 m\n- 90 cm × 9 m\n- 100 cm × 10 m\n- 106 cm × 10 m\n- 106 cm × 10.05 m\n- Another size: type it below\n\nUS double rolls, priced by the single roll\n\n- 20.5 in × 33 ft (52.1 cm × 10.06 m)\n- 21 in × 33 ft (53.3 cm × 10.06 m)\n- 27 in × 27 ft (68.6 cm × 8.23 m)\n- 27 in × 11 yd (68.6 cm × 10.06 m)\n- 36 in × 24 ft (91.4 cm × 7.32 m)\n- Another size: type it below\n\nSets of rolls, sold together\n\n- 52 cm × 3 m, 3 rolls a set\n- Another size: type it below\n\nBolts: grasscloth and natural weaves\n\n- 36 in × 8 yd (91.4 cm × 7.32 m)\n- Another size: type it below\n\nWide contract, sold by the metre\n\n- 130 cm × 30 m, 5 cm overlap\n- 130 cm × 50 m, 6 cm overlap\n- 100 cm\n- 135 cm\n- 137 cm × 27 m\n- Another size: type it below\n\nWide contract, sold by the yard\n\n- 52 in × 30 yd (132.1 cm × 27.43 m)\n- 54 in (137.2 cm)\n- Another size: type it below\n\nMade-to-measure murals\n\n- Made-to-measure mural, by the m²\n\nScenic and panel sets\n\n- Scenic or panel set\n\nNot sure? 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Follow the product label.\n\n**Reverse hang**\n\nAlternate lengths turn through 180°. Use this only when the maker asks for it; the arrows show the hanging direction.\n\nIllustrative · three adjacent lengths, not a cutting plan. Follow the product label.\n\n**Straight match**\n\nThe same point in the design meets at the same height on every length.\n\nIllustrative · three adjacent lengths, not a cutting plan. Follow the product label.\n\n**Half-drop**\n\nThe next length starts half a repeat lower. The third length returns to the first pattern position.\n\nIllustrative · three adjacent lengths, not a cutting plan. Follow the product label.\n\n**Third drop**\n\nEach next length moves a third of a repeat lower. The pattern returns to its first position on the fourth length.\n\nIllustrative · three adjacent lengths, not a cutting plan. Follow the product label.\n\n**Quarter drop**\n\nEach next length moves a quarter of a repeat lower. The pattern returns to its first position on the fifth length.\n\nIllustrative · three adjacent lengths, not a cutting plan. Follow the product label.\n\nKnow the maker or have the product link? (optional)\n\nMaker\n\n- Not sure, or another maker\n- de Gournay\n- Cole & Son\n- Farrow & Ball\n- Fromental (printed non-woven)\n- Fromental (grasscloth)\n- Graham & Brown\n- Muraspec\n- Phillip Jeffries\n- Vescom\n- Tektura\n\nProduct link\n\n2 The wall or the room\n\nWhat you are measuring\n\nOne wall\n\nSeveral walls\n\nA whole room\n\nMeasured in\n\ncm\n\nm\n\ninches\n\nfeet\n\nWall width, cm\n\nHeight to paper, cm\n\nAdd another wall\n\nRoom length, cm\n\nRoom width, cm\n\nHeight to paper, cm\n\nHeight to paper: from the top of the skirting to where the paper stops, at the ceiling, the cornice or the picture rail. A room is counted as one run round its walls.\n\nA stairwell, a sloping or curved wall, or a ceiling? We measure those for you: [send us your measurements](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/?intent=install&from=calculator).\n\n3Doors, windows, chimney breasts and the walls' condition (optional)Takes out drops over doors and windows; sets the primer and lining.\n\nWhat are the walls like now?\n\n- Painted and sound\n- New plaster or plasterboard\n- Old paper stripped off\n- Cracked or patched\n- Gloss paint or old vinyl\n- Stains or damp marks\n- Cement render or blockwork\n- Not sure\n\nDoors, windows and niches\n\nAdd a window\n\nAdd a door\n\nAdd a niche\n\nChimney breast and alcove returns\n\nAdd a return\n\nEach side of a chimney breast or an alcove is a return. 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