I switched some things around in the house, and needed a spot for one of my favorite rugs from the Chris Loves Julia x Loloi collection.  The current laundry rug was getting a little worn and it was the perfect space for another 5x7 rug, so the Oriental Natural/Ocean Area Rug had a new home.  The problem was, it wasn't really meshing well with the existing black and white palette in there, so I decided to nix the hand painted mudcloth accent wall.  You can also see the before of the laundry room in the post.

Since I was doing a very small wall, I started on the left side, but if you were doing a larger space, you should start in the middle.  I began in the top left corner and lined up the top of the roll with the ceiling and corner and peeled about 12 inches of the backer off at a time, smoothing out the bubbles as I went with a putty knife.  Looking back, it would have been better to let the left side of the paper overlap the corner a few inches and cut it later, because walls are never totally straight.  By the time I got to the bottom, closer to the floor, there was a little gap that I had to deal with later.  I could have saved myself some hassle with this simple fix.

When I got to the bottom, I used a sharp utility knife to cut off the excess paper.  For the next row, I simply lined the pattern up, cut off the excess at the top, smoothed as I went down and cut it at the bottom.  You should overlap the pattern about 1/16" to account for shrinking.  Of course, you have to cut around any doors or windows, which is a little bit of a challenge, but nothing too hard.

This project probably took me about 1.5-2 hours to complete by myself.  It could be a little quicker if you had another hand.