It has been a whirlwind of a week for yours truly!
My weekly TV Show on Saturday nights on CBS channel 12 WRDW has been so popular that the network has asked me to host my show THREE days a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 3 p.m.! We began airing this past week.
To say I have been excited is an understatement!
The show is a design, homebuilding, remodeling and lifestyle program, and my hope is that, like my weekly column here, I empower people to make wise design decisions.
I hope I inspire people to consider their many options when they are building, remodeling or just redecorating.
Wallpaper has become a very popular design element again! I love wallpaper. It can help give a content or color theme to a room. It can add texture or pattern. It can be an overall design or one large pattern, or mural. It can be installed on walls or ceilings. It is so versatile!
Wallpaper is priced by the single roll, however it is packaged and sold in a double roll. This can be very confusing to a person unfamiliar with how it works.
There is also a variety of widths. Most wallpapers are 21 inches to 27 inches wide and 11 yards long (double roll). You have to consider the pattern repeat when figuring out how many rolls your project requires. With these parameters, there is always some waste involved. Many times, there are several feet left for every run. It feels a shame to throw away the remnants. Especially if the paper is expensive or of some fabulous pattern or texture.
Let’s consider some options in using these scrap pieces.
You could cover a painters canvas with wallpaper, stapling it on the backside as it wraps around the canvas. You could use a small canvas and one width of paper, or you could paste and seam more widths together on a larger canvas.
I sometimes cover large books with wallpaper, much like some parents did with paper bags or craft paper for their children’s text books. Maybe use some unattractive college books or old do-it-yourself books that are out of fashion. You can layer these books on your coffee table or bookshelves.
I love to have my old photo albums handy to show friends when they visit. However, the old photo albums can be unattractive. Wrapping these albums with paper can make them much easier to coordinate with your decor as you display them.
You can line shelves in your kitchen drawers or dresser drawers with scraps of wallpaper.
The riser, or back of staircases can appear boring, and usually painted white. Wallpaper could really dress a staircase up and only needs 10 inches or less of height per stair….yet maybe a width or two of paper.
If the wallpaper is printed on paper, and not vinyl, it could be folded and made into origami sculptures.
Tissue boxes can sometimes be very gaudy and unattractive. You can use wallpaper scraps to dress up a tissue box and give it a pop that coordinates with your room.
An oatmeal container or round metal tin could be dressed up with paper.
Just because it is called wallpaper doesn’t mean it has to only be used on the walls!
