Recently, my good friends Anne-Louise as well as Jon requested some assist with their new house. It’s their extremely very first home and, while extremely nice, it needed a bit character as well as some pulling together.
They’d tried to update the area by painting all of the walls grey, however had selected a grey with a purple cast as well as they made a decision it made the location feel dull. I suggested they opt for a warm, creamy white as well as add some wallpaper, which Anne-Louise was craving.
For wallpaper, we settled on Thibaut’s Sassafras paper from the Chelsea collection. The paper is offered in Canada with Crown Wallpaper & materials as well as was extremely great to work with. I’m no professional wallpaper hanger, however the Sassafras paper increased truly quickly as well as didn’t cause as well lots of headaches. We kept the job to one wall, to ensure that assisted too!
It starts with drawing a line with a level on the wall to ensure that your very first as well as subsequent pieces go on straight. next you cut your very first piece leaving a few additional inches on the top as well as bottom. utilize a big table to work on as well as spread wallpaper paste on the back of the piece you’ve cut utilizing a little foam roller as well as tray. then you ‘book’ the paper which indicates folding the glued sides together to keep the glue wet. location the folded paper in a plastic garbage bag for three minutes to let the wet paper relax. then you stick ‘er up on the wall as well as utilize some smoothening tools to work out the air bubbles.
Each piece goes up in the exact same method as well as you just keep matching up the pattern. keep in mind that larger patterns tend to have a lot more lost paper so get a bit extra. This wall really took two rolls. After the paper is up, you trim off the edges utilizing a utility knife as well as directly edge. If any type of edges are unglued you can always glue them back down with a little foam clean as well as a lot more glue. Excess glue comes off with a moist rag.
Once the wallpaper was up we moved Anne-Louise as well as Jon’s furniture back in, including this painted vintage credenza as well as vintage country chair.
Here’s a close-up so you can see exactly how great this Thibaut wallpaper pattern is! It has kind of a faintly metallic Moroccan tile theme with these light, airy leafy bits. It’s best for Anne-Louise as well as Jon since they are the two greatest tree-hugging people I know! They even utilize organic toothpaste!
We likewise embellished the wall over their slipcovered sofa with three Ikea Ribba frames as well as some diy art. utilizing a pear, apple, grapefruit as well as some leaves from the yard, we produced prints by stamping the fruit as well as leaves into some leftover home paint on bristol board. I believe they look great!
The stamped fruit produces some truly fascinating structures as well as patterns as well as the look is light, fresh as well as simple.
So with some cans of paint, a couple of rolls of wallpaper as well as some Ikea frames, Anne-Louise as well as Jon’s location was absolutely refreshed as well as perked up for summer. as well as we had so much fun doing it, too!
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Photo credits:
1. Michael Penney
2. Chelsea Collection, Sassafras, T3237, Thibaut
3-8. Michael Penney