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Decorating With WallpaperDecorating with wallpaper has come a long way in recent years. With an even larger array of choices of patterns, textures, fauxs, uses, affordability, and even technology there is renewed excitement about wallpaper. Wallpaper is an instant character lift for any room. It adds creative interest through pattern, color, and texture. New on the scene is plain textured paper with a raised or embossed design that is made to be painted or glazed. In addition new technology has introduced an entirely dry stippable wallpaper that eliminates removal fear and fear of commitment commonly associated with decorating with wallpaper.
Wallpaper Ideas--Faux wallpaper prints are remarkable. Even the best faux painter would have trouble creating a realistic effect as some wallpapers. Some prints are embossed or raised to add to the visual foolery. Other wallcoverings begin with an actual photograph of real stone, brick, wood, fencing, etc.This faux brick wall wallpaper creates a backdrop to showcase accessories on a plant shelf.
--Decorating with wallpaper can be fun when you use it to tackle the art of illusion. Wallpaper can look like log cabin walls, shelves lined with wine, a library of books, weathered fencing and more. 1. Buy one roll and apply a strip of shelf lined with bottles of wine onto thin wood, foam core, or MDF board and place stategicly on a wall. This removes the threat of cost, commitment, and gives you the flexibility to move it around like a picture. 2. Use weathered wood wallpaper like paneling up three fourths of a wall in a bathroom or hallway. 3. Line a wall in a study with wallpaper resembling bookshelves lined with old books.
--Create an attention getting area by wallpapering just a portion of the wall and then frame the section with molding or a border. This is especially eye catching for a seating area, a headboard, and in this case an architectural element in this dining room.
--Decorating with wallpaper borders has also been expanded. Use borders instead of molding at chair-rail heights or even ceiling heights (be careful in ceiling height application to avoid appearing outdated). You can also creatively use borders to accentuate doors and alcoves or other archetectural features. Decorating With Molding-use Border instead
--Modulart is a new option in wallpaper ideas. These are 20 1/2 inch prepasted squares. They can be used to create a dramatic harlequin effect with two tones, stripes, or alone. You can even peel the squares off and reuse them. --Murals are great room accents. Wallpaper murals create instant atmosphere. From window scenes, beach scenes, italian vinyards, libraries, stacked wine shelves, and even a horse peering over a stable door (these are door sized for placement on an interior door) the availabilities of ideas is endless. Here a beach scene mural adds to the surfer, beach motiff. The 3-D surfboard is a surfboard mural applied to a foam cutout of a surfboard.
--Creative wallpaper ideas for decorating with wallpaper starts with dropping the "wall", and apply it to anything else. Use prints on the front of a chest of drawers, make each drawer a different color of the same print, apply it to the back of a bookcase for color and interest, apply your wallpaper or even mural to a three piece room divider, a trunk or just frame pieces and hang on the wall.
There is no limit to wallpaper ideas. Just like paint it is the easiest way to instantly change and enhance a room. Like paint it can be used only on a focal wall, or just a portion of the wall whether it be chair height or taller, as molding, or to frame an area or be framed, on furniture or the entire room. The choice is yours and it is endless as well as rewarding.
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