Enough Of Your Boring White Walls
Posted by Michele | Filed under wallpaper
It never ceases to amaze me how many talented artists and designers there are in this world. Everyday I find new work that blows my mind and the thriving industry of new wall art is no exception. Check out this cool idea from Ferm Living. Sure, it’s not for everyone, but its a unique alternative to bare walls.So often in new homes around this area, the walls are kept the prototypical, off-white with the orange peel texture. What ever happened to lathe and plaster. It is so much prettier and you can do so much with it especially when it comes to faux treatments.
You take a lathe and plaster wall, seal it, paint it, and then sand and wax and sand and wax and sand and waxed. It polishes like a venetian plaster but it is solid and smooth. A few coats of varnish on top and WOW! Yes, it’s a bit time intensive, but the end result is fabulous.
Don’t want to put in that much effort? Try wallpaper!
Stop! Thief!
Posted by Michele | Filed under wallpaper
This bathroom wallpaper is my idea. At a very young age, I thought it would be very cool to take all my great greeting cards and make wallpaper out of them. I wanted to do a very small toilet area because I thought it would be a lot of fun and sentimental as well. The funny cards of course would be the best.
Well, someone beat me to it. Graham and Brown Wallpapers came up with this great wallpaper that you can add your own stuff to. Isn’t this great? I’m just mad that they are making all the money. It’s time for me to start designing wallpaper. There I go again, off on another tangent. If I could only have enough time to create and produce all the things I come up with in my head. It’s a curse for us creative types. I can’t stop thinking, but I digress.
Wallpaper has had a negative stigma thanks to the 60’s and 70’s kitsche. It was so traditional for so long. Also there is the problem of tiring of it too quickly. Look at it this way. You are going to tire of anything anyway so you might as well just do it and love it for the time being. Worst case scenario: you pay someone in a few years come in and strip it and either paint it or put up a new design.
I’m actually loving wall paper so much right now. I had the opportunity to design a very spa-like master bedroom for a client and I’m using a stark wet black pattern on top of flat black. The design is very large but when you first look at it all you see is a black wall. I’m going to arrange beautiful black and white photos for the focal point on top of this great blackboard. The client absolutely loves it, and I love my job.
