My wallpaper cheat sheet
William Morris wallpaper, as seen in this New Zealand House Calls tour. | Photography by Bonny Beattie
Complete with a special guest appearance from my mom
Welcome! This weekend I have a cheat sheet on hanging wallpaper with a special guest appearance from my mom. I?ve also got chubby furniture, plus, a humble request for any readers who want to help Curbed get onto the main stage next spring at SXSW. ?Kelsey
The great wallpaper caper
In my very first Editor?s Notes, I mentioned that I?d been scouring my sources for wallpaper for the bathroom in our D.C. apartment. The apartment gets a ton of light, and the bathroom has beaded boarding paneling halfway up the wall, with terra-cotta floor tile glazed royal blue. So while the existing wallpaper was in fine enough condition, its navy background and busy pattern weren?t doing the room any favors. Lucky for me, I have a husband who supports some of my more labor-intensive decorating ideas, and we decided on a small-scale bathroom makeover. First, we picked a wallpaper pattern from Hygge & West that we both loved from among the dozens of samples I tested. That was the easy part.
BEFORE: My mother preparing to remove the old wallpaper. So small, so mighty.
I?ve been eyeing Hygge & West?s Underwater World paper since my first Editor?s Notes.
I would not have attempted such a bold move as an amateur except that my mother volunteered to lend a hand. The ...
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