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Once again you are seeing it grace the walls of
powder rooms, full bathrooms, dining rooms and
kitchens. It is a nice trend to see. Rooms that
accent the house with wallpaper add new
dimension, interest and texture to an otherwise
predictably painted environment. If you are in
the design phase of home building project, you
should give wallpaper some serious
consideration. As with many home improvement
products, more designs are available to the
general public now than ever before.
Powder Room:
One terrific place to use wallpaper as an
accent in your home is the powder room. This
usually small space is perfect for making an
impression on your guests. It is also a very
limited way to reintroduce wallpaper into your
life, but still be able to enjoy an interior
design statement which makes your home unique.
Don’t be afraid to select dark or textured
wallpapers for the powder room. Even though it
is small, drama is what you are after here, or
you would just be painting it the color of the
rest of the house. Darkness and textures deliver
drama.
Master Bath:
Wallpaper is also making a comeback in the
master as well as other bathrooms of the home.
Remember the days when each room of a house
might have a different colored carpet? One great
thing about wallpaper in a bathroom is that it
allows each member of the family to express
their own tastes while allowing the other
elements, like carpet and trim color, maintain
the home’s continuity.
Dining Room:
Wallpaper in the dining room is an
excellent way to make it known that you have
excellent tastes in interior design. How many
houses have you been into today that have a
living room right across the entrance from the
dining room? It is usually the large table and
chairs that gives away which one the dining
rooms is, but if it weren’t for that, who would
know? Wallpaper is a great solution for rooms
that lack personality. However, if you are
tempted to buy the fabric that matches the
wallpaper, then you have gone too far. There are
too many beautiful fabrics just waiting on the
bolt for you to coordinate with your new
wallpaper to create an intensely interesting
room. Considering wallpaper in your dining room
is a wonderful idea, and you will make a room so
unique in your home that your relatives will
remember in which room they spent the holidays.
Kitchen:
Kitchens are another great place to accent
with wallpaper. Like the powder room, the
kitchen is an excellent place to experiment and
reintroduce wallpaper back into your life. In
this room, the cabinets and tile backsplash take
up so much of the wall that you are left with a
minimum amount of space for any finish material.
Wallpaper is also a fairly easy surface to clean
in the kitchen, which has become the hearth of
the home in today’s designs.
Care with Selection:
Tasteful selection is the key here. In this
writer’s opinion, you should stay away from
anything at which you could look and think, “How
dated will this look in five years, in ten
years?” If you are wondering what would fit into
this category, think about extremely oversized
floral prints, overly bright colors and old
style metallic papers. If you even have the
slightest feeling that a paper would become
outdated, then do not select it. Instead, for
example, look for natural fibers, like silk and
woven papers such as the newer grass cloths.
Spend some time looking at top of the line
wallpapers and then depending on your budget,
locate something that is most similar to the
more expensive papers. Since wallpaper can be
used as an accent, paying a bit more for
luxurious wallpaper is a very controlled way to
do something special in your home.
Installation:
Finally, if you live in a home that was
constructed with all textured and painted walls,
it requires a bit of an effort to retro-fit any
room with wallpaper. Of all of the do it
yourself jobs, that would be an excellent time
to leave it to a professional. Call a drywall
company and inquire about the process it takes
to prepare textured sheetrock for papering. The
good news is that there are some very heavy
gauge papers on the market that can be applied
over a very lightly textured wall. If you are
designing a home or have bought one early on in
the construction phase, let the architect and
builder know that you have plans for wallpaper
in certain rooms. That way they can have their
drywall people prepare the walls accordingly.
Enjoy the
process of rediscovering wallpaper. It can be a
beautiful addition to any décor and give a home,
which lacks personality, an interior designer
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