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I am working with a client who just wallpapered her bedroom and loves the print so much she wants to come up with a way to use the leftover paper in other areas of her master suite. I am thinking of covering storage boxes for her dressing room or perhaps even a tray for her bathroom vanity in the vintage print. As I was going through my design notebooks, I came across some clever ideas and thought I would share them with you. Papering the inside of a closet, lining the backs of built-in shelves or even making a faux headboard are interesting ways to use wallpaper in small doses if you are in love with a pattern but are leery of papering an entire room. You can also use leftover paper (or you can buy remnants from a local wallpaper store) to cover books (as I did in Before & After: Wild Dunes), as matting in a frame or to line drawers. Do you have any creative uses for wallpaper? Let me know!

~Images: 1) Wallpaper as a Headboard in Domino July/Aug 2006 2) Wallpaper as a Chair rail in Blueprint 3) Wallpaper as Cabinet Insets in Traditional Home 4) Wallpaper to Cover a Door in Domino Oct 2005 5) Wallpaper to Cover a Refrigerator in Domino Nov 2006 6) Grasscloth to Line a Vanity Top Unknown Source 7) Wallpaper to Line a Closet in Domino Spring/Summer 2005 8) Wallpaper as a Backsplash in Domino June 2006

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Schumacher
Belleza Damask Wallpaper

I sold the idea of this beautiful Schumacher wallpaper to a client for her powder room. She teared up she loved it so. My heart swelled because I was making all of her wallpaper dreams come true. Then I got a quote...I could not in good conscious talk a client into spending the equivillant of a new Lexus on wallpaper for a 4x5 room that only guests use. So I call out to you, my design friends, does anyone know of a similar, dare I say knock-off version of this? It is a grasscloth with a stenciled damask print on it. A-mazing!!! I am exploring the route of having a faux painter do the stencil on a grasscloth but thought I would ask because that makes me nervous and I predict many sleepless nights worrying about paint dripping...any thoughts would be helpful! Many thanks!

Have a great weekend!

I feel like I talk about clever uses for wallpaper way too much on this blog but for all you local folks...The Habitat for Humanity store in Mt. Pleasant inherited the inventory from Carriage Trading Co. (formarly Chuck Campbell's Wallpaper) and all rolls are on sale for $1. They are pretty picked over but they do have a lot left and you can use the wallpaper for many uses other than the obvious-covering books, wrapping paper, drawer liners, to cover a bulletin board, arts and crafts, etc. Get goin'!!! [Thanks for the tip Katie!]

Real Simple

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Real Simple

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Martha Stewart

Country Living

Country Living did a great story on turning a reach-in closet into an office space. Not a new trick but I think they had some clever ideas. My favorite of which was spray painting the blah metal file cabinet a color that coordinated with the wallpaper.

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Martha suggests having an auto body shop paint it for you (she is such a lazy ass).

You can even paint the wood variety.

Better Homes & Gardens

Perhaps even updating the hardware to something like this...

Van Dykes Hardware

Or you could knit a "file cozy" (just kidding). But I do like the skirt idea that just hides the whole darn thing.

Better Homes & Gardens

Here is another genius idea by designer, Mary McDonald, who covered her ugly metal file cabinet in a photocopy of her favorite wallpaper. I imagine you could use actual wallpaper, scrapbook paper, contact paper, whathaveyou.

Domino

Have any other ideas? I'd love to hear them!

Designer Ruthie Sommers

via Shelter Blog

via Shelter Blog

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Eddie Ross

If you are a commitment-phobe then wallpaper panels are for you! A great way to get a big impact without regret. And if you are on a budget you can often find remnants at wallpaper stores or antique malls for a steal. You can frame them through your local frame shop or have a carpenter build you a custom frame.

Happy Weekend Everyone!

Since many of you have been asking, I thought I would share the finishes and overall selections I made for the shop.

Photo by Wes Fredsel

Paint Colors:
Benjamin Moore's Decorator's White on the Walls and Peacock Blue on the Barn Door

Wall-to-Wall Seagrass Carpet

Cork Floors in the Bathroom and Enterance

Both available at Palmetto Carpet

Bathroom Wallpaper: Carlton V Boca Grand in Espresso

Office Wallpaper: Schumacher Tropical Isle

Shelving: IKEA Lack Floating Shelves with Van Dykes Hardware

IKEA Lack Wall Shelf

IKEA Lack Floating Wall Shelf

And I added some brackets...

Van Dykes Shelf Brackets

Shelving similar to this...

IKEA Expedit Shelving

And I had a custom island made by local craftsman with a piece of tin roof I found and fell in love with (cue line from the B52's song Love Shack which I sing in my head every time I look at it..."tin roof...rusted.")

All of the above can be ordered through Eclectic. Email me or call if you are interested sidney@eclectic-idg.com or call me at the shop (843)388-7002.