| Throughout the 1990's painting was the trend for all | | | | in your home that your relatives will remember in |
| rooms in a home. However, since the turn of the | | | | which room they spent the holidays. |
| century, wallpaper has been making quite a | | | | Kitchen: |
| comeback in popularity. Once again you are seeing it | | | | Kitchens are another great place to accent with |
| grace the walls of powder rooms, full bathrooms, | | | | wallpaper. Like the powder room, the kitchen is an |
| dining rooms and kitchens. It is a nice trend to see. | | | | excellent place to experiment and reintroduce |
| Rooms that accent the house with wallpaper add | | | | wallpaper back into your life. In this room, the |
| new dimension, interest and texture to an otherwise | | | | cabinets and tile backsplash take up so much of the |
| predictably painted environment. If you are in the | | | | wall that you are left with a minimum amount of |
| design phase of home building project, you should | | | | space for any finish material. Wallpaper is also a fairly |
| give wallpaper some serious consideration. As with | | | | easy surface to clean in the kitchen, which has |
| many home improvement products, more designs are | | | | become the hearth of the home in today's designs. |
| available to the general public now than ever before. | | | | Care with Selection: |
| Powder Room: | | | | Tasteful selection is the key here. In this writer's |
| One terrific place to use wallpaper as an accent in | | | | opinion, you should stay away from anything at |
| your home is the powder room. This usually small | | | | which you could look and think, "How dated will this |
| space is perfect for making an impression on your | | | | look in five years, in ten years?" If you are |
| guests. It is also a very limited way to reintroduce | | | | wondering what would fit into this category, think |
| wallpaper into your life, but still be able to enjoy an | | | | about extremely oversized floral prints, overly bright |
| interior design statement which makes your home | | | | colors and old style metallic papers. If you even have |
| unique. Don't be afraid to select dark or textured | | | | the slightest feeling that a paper would become |
| wallpapers for the powder room. Even though it is | | | | outdated, then do not select it. Instead, for example, |
| small, drama is what you are after here, or you | | | | look for natural fibers, like silk and woven papers |
| would just be painting it the color of the rest of the | | | | such as the newer grass cloths. Spend some time |
| house. Darkness and textures deliver drama. | | | | looking at top of the line wallpapers and then |
| Master Bath: | | | | depending on your budget, locate something that is |
| Wallpaper is also making a comeback in the master | | | | most similar to the more expensive papers. Since |
| as well as other bathrooms of the home. Remember | | | | wallpaper can be used as an accent, paying a bit |
| the days when each room of a house might have a | | | | more for luxurious wallpaper is a very controlled way |
| different colored carpet? One great thing about | | | | to do something special in your home. |
| wallpaper in a bathroom is that it allows each | | | | Installation: |
| member of the family to express their own tastes | | | | Finally, if you live in a home that was constructed |
| while allowing the other elements, like carpet and trim | | | | with all textured and painted walls, it requires a bit of |
| color, maintain the home's continuity. | | | | an effort to retro-fit any room with wallpaper. Of all |
| Dining Room: | | | | of the do it yourself jobs, that would be an excellent |
| Wallpaper in the dining room is an excellent way to | | | | time to leave it to a professional. Call a drywall |
| make it known that you have excellent tastes in | | | | company and inquire about the process it takes to |
| interior design. How many houses have you been into | | | | prepare textured sheetrock for papering. The good |
| today that have a living room right across the | | | | news is that there are some very heavy gauge |
| entrance from the dining room? It is usually the large | | | | papers on the market that can be applied over a |
| table and chairs that gives away which one the dining | | | | very lightly textured wall. If you are designing a home |
| rooms is, but if it weren't for that, who would know? | | | | or have bought one early on in the construction |
| Wallpaper is a great solution for rooms that lack | | | | phase, let the architect and builder know that you |
| personality. However, if you are tempted to buy the | | | | have plans for wallpaper in certain rooms. That way |
| fabric that matches the wallpaper, then you have | | | | they can have their drywall people prepare the walls |
| gone too far. There are too many beautiful fabrics | | | | accordingly. |
| just waiting on the bolt for you to coordinate with | | | | Enjoy the process of rediscovering wallpaper. It can |
| your new wallpaper to create an intensely interesting | | | | be a beautiful addition to any décor and give a |
| room. Considering wallpaper in your dining room is a | | | | home, which lacks personality, an interior designer |
| wonderful idea, and you will make a room so unique | | | | look. |