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Wallpaper Calculator

Rolls of wallpaper needed for a room, with a pattern-match allowance.

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Large repeating patterns need more — try 20–25%.

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Fill in the fields on the left and press Calculate. The answer, the breakdown and a copy button all land in this card.

How it is calculated

Wall area = perimeter × height; Rolls = wall area × (1 + waste%) ÷ (roll width × roll length), rounded up

This treats all four walls as one continuous area — it does not subtract doors and windows, which covers the trimming lost to pattern matching.

Worked example

A 4 × 3.5 m room with 2.7 m walls has 40.5 m² of wall. Standard 53 cm × 10 m rolls (5.3 m² each) with 10% waste need 9 rolls.

Questions people ask

The leftover trimmed off each drop is usually similar in size to what the openings would have saved, and the waste allowance covers pattern repeats — so the simpler full-wall figure is normally close enough.

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