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I would like to say this project was a spur of the moment project, which it was...but wasn't. I've been thinking about what to do to this side of my bedroom for years now...probably since we moved in. It was just a plain beige wall, but I loved the contrast of it with the white door. I was like 1 inch away from painting this wall white, when I got an idea in my head to throw some extra wallpaper I had laying around on the corner to see what it looked like.
I loved the way it looked! Bonus that I didn't have to take out the paint! For some reason, applying wallpaper to an entire wall is more calming and relaxing for me, ha!
First is to hold it up to the wall and make sure the patterns align correctly. I then either crease or mark where the ceiling is and the baseboards are. I cut the wallpaper and then stick it to the wall from the top to the bottom, carefully aligning the first foot or so section.
It's okay if there is extra on the top by the wall, it's actually preferred. Rather have too much than too little! I went back over this with an exacto knife to clean it up.
I worked from the right to the left, and then encountered the door and it's molding. This isn't my favorite part, but it has to be done :)
If the next section of wallpaper has you working a lot around the molding, sometimes it's better to just cut the wallpaper vertically to work with less. I did this with the molding on the door. I had waaaayy to much overhang, so I cut it so it was only about an inch, which is easier to work with. I then used the knife to score and remove the wallpaper against the molding.
Working around decorative molding is a bit trickier, but the same trick is needed. Get rid of as much excess wallpaper as possible, then work with a small bit of overage. This takes time to cut around, making sure the wallpaper will lay correctly in the grooves.
Now when encountering outlets, it's best to take the plate off and add the wallpaper around the hole itself. Then simply add the plate back on.
This is a corner of my room I never show. It took some figuring out to know what to do here.
And here it is complete! You can't see it now, but there used to be an access panel to my jetted tub on that wall. The wallpaper helped cover it up! You can see the before of it a few pictures below. I love how this elevated this room to the perfect cottagecore or grandma core aesthetic. It brought on allll the cozy vibes too!
I absolutely adore English countryside homes, and for some reason, this just made my room feel close to one. That's a lot of pattern on the wall, but I was totally okay with it since I hardly ever use pattern in this room. If I do, now I know to add a bigger complimentary pattern or a smaller one, so it won't be a problem :)
This block print wallpaper also made this little faux fireplace feel like it belonged. I added this in here years ago, loved it, but never really thought it looked at home. Now it totally does. I have the tutorial on how to make that here.
If you look closely, this block print is actually sunflowers. It doesn't feel at all like that in reality, it's just a pretty repeating pattern. I do like sunflowers though, used to be my favorite flower until they started growing like weeds in my yard :)
Ultimately I decided to add it to all that would normally have been this wall had it been flat. It was definitely worth the time it took because of the difference it made.
Here's a good before of this space right before I started adding the wallpaper. You can see the access panel there to the right of the door. Looking at this picture now, the space just seems so bare! This wallpaper was definitely needed, I'm glad I didn't paint it white :)
The trend lately has been block print patterns, and I am obsessed with them. They are becoming more and more available as time passes, but for awhile there, they were hard to come by unless you wanted to spend a pretty penny. The first block print I added in my house was actually this same exact wallpaper in my dining room. I loved it so much in there, I figured heck why not add it into my bedroom as well :) I'm trying my best not to add it into every room of my house! I figured two places for now is enough.
For those who have asked, the background of this wallpaper is pretty much true to this picture of cream with little tannish brown streaks in the background...almost reminding me of papyrus paper. The flowers themselves are like a gray/green. And for this wall I used about 8 rolls of the 118 inch roll. I could have bought the larger rolls, but they were never on sale and I got a couple of these 118 inch rolls for about $5 each. So...all in all it was cheaper to go that route. But the concession is that you don't get the same color all the time. There's just a super minor difference, but I could totally tell :) I bet you couldn't though! That first roll on the very right was a different color variation that the rest of the wall. I decided to go with it since I didn't want to wait for another roll to come in and hope it matched.
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