For me a good rule of thumb is to install chair rail molding at 25 of the height of the room.
Wallpaper border chair rail height.
Consider how different chair rail heights look next to those features.
Window trim fireplaces and existing wall molding can also impact the height.
Plan your starting point so that if there is a mismatched seam it ll fall in an inconspicuous place.
This would look like a typical wallpaper border in order to bring detail with a new and updated form.
Allow it to expand by applying paste to the back if it is un pasted or by soaking it in water for 10 seconds if pre pasted.
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Lower is always better than higher.
If you re going to be hanging a border as a chair rail use a level and draw a light pencil line around the room at the right height.
Hull cautions that most people install chair rails too high on their walls.
All the moisture to soak into the paper border for 5 minutes before measuring the height of the border from top to bottom.
For example if the room already has wallpaper on the lower half with a wallpaper border currently defining the edge it s easiest to install the chair rail where the wallpaper currently stops.
In a room with a 10 foot high ceiling the chair rail.
About 28 to 32 inches is an optimum range for chair rail height says hull.