paperer

Decorator with rolls

A paperer is someone who applies wallpaper or decorative paper to walls.

The term appears in contexts ranging from professional interior decoration to historical trades.

By extension, paperer occasionally describes anyone who covers surfaces with paper: The campaign paperers plastered the town with flyers overnight.

trade

journeyman

Qualified trade worker

contractor · artisan · blue-collar · handyman · workwear · toolbelt · dexterity · employment · workforce · laborer

wallpapering

pasting

Adhering with sticky substance

smoothing · trimming · hanging · vinyl · flock · damask · floral · geometric · textured · feature wall

Opposites
wall treatment method

papererpainter

One who applies pigment

house painter · plasterer · tiler · whitewasher · muralist

construction/deconstruction

papererstripper

Removes coatings or clothing

scraper

Phrases
Family

paper, newspaper, papers, papered, wallpaper, paperwork, papering, papery

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G