I’ve to provide you with a distinct plan for the again entry of my studio. The wallpaper concept isn’t an choice.
I spent hours this final weekend engaged on the wallpaper. As I’ve talked about a number of occasions earlier than, I nonetheless plan on utilizing the wallpaper I designed for this room, however my mother and I did slightly redesigning and tweaking of the design to lighten and brighten a number of the colours in order that the flowers (particularly the darkest purple flower) would nonetheless appear to be an precise flower from a distance fairly than a darkish purple blob. You may see what I imply on the unique wallpaper right here…
However I additionally wished to have the design printed in order that the flowers are a lot bigger. It’s been fairly a course of looking for an organization that can print it like that. Properly, as if Spoonflower was studying my thoughts, I bought a advertising and marketing textual content from them final Friday with useful hyperlinks for inventive wallpaper concepts, and one of many hyperlinks was particularly about the best way to flip a picture right into a wall mural and have it printed by them.
Their system actually isn’t arrange for printing murals, so it’s important to know the best way to edit images utilizing Photoshop or one thing related, and the best way to work round their printing course of. It’s positively not a course of for novices, however for individuals who have expertise with Photoshop (or an identical photograph editor), it’s doable.
So I spent a number of hours final weekend following their tutorial, modifying my picture in order that it will work with their printing course of, and checking and double checking to make certain I had accomplished every little thing proper.
Then after discovering a coupon on-line for 20% off (which was greater than their Memorial Day sale), I went to order. The mural for the lengthy wall with the cupboards got here to $414 earlier than the low cost, and $298 after the low cost. That appeared affordable for such a protracted wall.
However the wallpaper for the again entry got here to $1564 earlier than the low cost, and $1126 after the low cost. That implies that even with 20% off, the entire wallpaper for each areas would come to simply underneath $1500.
I got here very near clicking that Purchase Now button, however I simply couldn’t make myself do it. Spending $1500 on wallpaper simply isn’t one thing that I’d do, particularly when there are such a lot of different issues (like landscaping) that I may spend that cash on.
I don’t thoughts splurging on issues that I actually, actually need. Shopping for a $2600 couch was a splurge for me. Spending $40,000 to transform a bed room into an accessible lavatory that fits each Matt and me was positively a splurge. However $1500 on wallpaper isn’t one thing that pursuits me. I’d fairly put that cash in direction of a rock border for my entrance flower beds, or lastly getting our carport lights put in and the ceiling completed.
I used to be dissatisfied, however there are different points with wallpapering the again entry as effectively that made the choice to not purchase the wallpaper a bit simpler. I’ve been involved about how the wallpaper would final in that space. I’ve advised y’all earlier than, however our home is consistently shifting and transferring all year long. That’s the ache of dwelling in a home constructed on a pier and beam basis. And one purpose that I’ve by no means used wallpaper in such a approach that it has to wrap round a nook on this home is as a result of as the home shifts, I might danger having wrinkled wallpaper within the corners.
I don’t have any wallpaper wrapped round corners in our home, however I do have a nook the place the precise drywall tape has wrinkled as the home has shifted all year long. You may see it right here within the breakfast room nook. This drywall tape began off good once they initially put in and mudded the drywall. However it took lower than a yr for your complete nook, from from the ceiling to the ground, to wrinkle because of shifting.
It’s simply a kind of issues that we householders in central Texas with pier-and-beam foundations need to take care of, together with cracked drywall.
If the worth of wallpapering the again entry had been significantly much less, I in all probability would have taken the possibility with the home settling and shifting and doubtlessly having wrinkled wallpaper within the corners. But when I’m going to spend that a lot cash on one thing, I wish to know that it’s going to final. And this space has already shifted sufficient in order that the lavatory door doesn’t shut completely prefer it did after I first put in the door. So it’s not a query of if this space would shift and transfer all year long. That’s a given. It could simply be a sport of wait and see to see how badly the shifting would have an effect on the wallpaper, if in any respect.
So whereas I’m nonetheless transferring ahead with the mural for the lengthy entrance wall, I’m again to the drafting board for the again entry.
I actually don’t really feel all that dissatisfied (solely mildly dissatisfied, which is how I do know this isn’t one thing I’d contemplate splurging on), however I’m annoyed that I have to provide you with a brand new concept for this space after I thought that the choice was made, and had been planning for the lavatory primarily based on wallpapering this space. (Excuse the cobwebs. :-D)
And, in fact, my first thought was stripes…as a result of I like stripes. Y’all know that I’d paint stripes on each wall in my home if I believed I may get away with it.
So until I can provide you with a brand new and inventive concept, stripes may make an look at this finish of the home on this again entry. I’ve three areas with stripes on the different finish of the home (hallway walls, guest bedroom floor, and home gym walls), so possibly bringing some stripes to this finish of the home would steadiness issues out! 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
