Oh man. I love wallpaper. Who wouldn’t love a huge wall with some colorful graphic design. I mean:
Okay, maybe none of you would. I keep forgetting that you’re all STUPID! Well, that’s only if you disagree. I mean, look at those!!
BUT there are two very terrible things about wallpaper. First, it’s EXPENSIVE. Like $1M a roll. Okay, maybe more like $50++. Second, they are a BEAR to take down when you’re so over the design that you’d like to rip your eyes out (which is inevitable). When I was still living at home, someone (me) brilliantly decided they wanted to paint their bedroom walls instead of putting ANOTHER layer of wallpaper up. That meant scraping off the previous 5 layers (I’m actually not exaggerating this time) before a single coat could touch the walls. Needless to say, I decided the half-wallpapered, crackhouse look most fit the look I was going with. It wasn’t worth it any more energy.
SO, in comes fake wallpaper a/k/a stencils. There are a few different ways you can accomplish this. You can just straight-up buy stencils like these (which I currently own and will probably never use because I live with a big poopity poop who isn’t wild about big wall graphics) and make something like the amazing Nikki over at the ambitious procrastinator in this tutorial.
OR you can make your own stencil using this tutorial. She even provides the template!
I’ll be honest. I think this one would be a bit of a challenge for me. At some point I would go total spaz and be unable to follow those lines. The end result would be…more abstract. Like a Salvador Dali painting. That’s what I’d tell everyone. Something like “This is a statement about electronic waste and our dependence on foreign oil. Duh.”
So, if you do end up doing this, please send pix. I’m going to have to live vicariously through you because of said poopity poop. Poor me…
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Ok, first thing first. The new look is awesome! It actually distracted me from my intended comment which is: thanks for the link! Also, maybe you could get one of those really thin pieces of plywood to stencil and hang on the wall. It would still be big, but not the whole wall. Oh, and maybe less contrasting colors. I used the same stencil in our stair well with light grey and lighter grey and its so soft and pretty. Or just punch Ryan in the butt and tell him you’re doing it, end of story.
Nikki
Thanks! I had the graphics made, but implementing them hasn’t been easy. There are still a couple of things I want to do, but I’m inching away with the CSS code training. Baby steps…
I think I give Ryan a bad rep sometimes. He HATED the hexagon idea, but he might go for something else. I’ll have to find something he likes. I’d really love to do our bedroom with ombre paint, but it’s so tiny and awkward that it would probably be a hassle. But doable.