Rediscovering Wallpaper

Throughout the 1990's painting was the trend for allin your home that your relatives will remember in
rooms in a home. However, since the turn of thewhich room they spent the holidays.
century, wallpaper has been making quite aKitchen:
comeback in popularity. Once again you are seeing itKitchens 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 addwallpaper back into your life. In this room, the
new dimension, interest and texture to an otherwisecabinets and tile backsplash take up so much of the
predictably painted environment. If you are in thewall that you are left with a minimum amount of
design phase of home building project, you shouldspace for any finish material. Wallpaper is also a fairly
give wallpaper some serious consideration. As witheasy surface to clean in the kitchen, which has
many home improvement products, more designs arebecome 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 inopinion, you should stay away from anything at
your home is the powder room. This usually smallwhich you could look and think, "How dated will this
space is perfect for making an impression on yourlook in five years, in ten years?" If you are
guests. It is also a very limited way to reintroducewondering what would fit into this category, think
wallpaper into your life, but still be able to enjoy anabout extremely oversized floral prints, overly bright
interior design statement which makes your homecolors and old style metallic papers. If you even have
unique. Don't be afraid to select dark or texturedthe slightest feeling that a paper would become
wallpapers for the powder room. Even though it isoutdated, then do not select it. Instead, for example,
small, drama is what you are after here, or youlook for natural fibers, like silk and woven papers
would just be painting it the color of the rest of thesuch 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 mastermost similar to the more expensive papers. Since
as well as other bathrooms of the home. Rememberwallpaper can be used as an accent, paying a bit
the days when each room of a house might have amore for luxurious wallpaper is a very controlled way
different colored carpet? One great thing aboutto do something special in your home.
wallpaper in a bathroom is that it allows eachInstallation:
member of the family to express their own tastesFinally, if you live in a home that was constructed
while allowing the other elements, like carpet and trimwith 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 totime to leave it to a professional. Call a drywall
make it known that you have excellent tastes incompany and inquire about the process it takes to
interior design. How many houses have you been intoprepare textured sheetrock for papering. The good
today that have a living room right across thenews is that there are some very heavy gauge
entrance from the dining room? It is usually the largepapers on the market that can be applied over a
table and chairs that gives away which one the diningvery 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 lackphase, let the architect and builder know that you
personality. However, if you are tempted to buy thehave plans for wallpaper in certain rooms. That way
fabric that matches the wallpaper, then you havethey can have their drywall people prepare the walls
gone too far. There are too many beautiful fabricsaccordingly.
just waiting on the bolt for you to coordinate withEnjoy the process of rediscovering wallpaper. It can
your new wallpaper to create an intensely interestingbe a beautiful addition to any décor and give a
room. Considering wallpaper in your dining room is ahome, which lacks personality, an interior designer
wonderful idea, and you will make a room so uniquelook.