Multiple
Wall Covering Products:
http://www.wallpaperstore.com/, order online
~ In a child’s room, where you might want to lower a ceiling to make it cozier,
paint one color up to a wallpaper border or molding 6’ above the floor, then switch
to a different color for the remainder of the wall and ceiling.
~ Also in a child’s room, try stickers, stamping, or a repeating roller to around
a window or door frame, at chair rail height, or near the edge of the ceiling.
~ Imitation architectural features have become very popular in wallpaper. They are much
less expensive then installing wood moldings.
Architectural Borders
http://www.eisenwalls.com/fr_arch.html
http://www.eisenwalls.com/pages/borders/arch/arch.html
Multiple Styles of Architectural Wall Covering Products
http://www.wallpaperstore.com/, order online
~ Pottery Barn once showed a room, in their catalog, with the area below
the chair rail (the dado) decorated with pages of sheet music placed side-by-side. What an
innovative idea! It is also a very inexpensive. Use your imagine to carry this concept
further with a material symbolizes your hobby or interest. For example, the walls of my
office are covered wall-to-wall with my children’s artwork.
~ Paintable, embossed wallcoverings are also becoming popular. The most practical use for
an embossed material would be below a chair rail in a formal dining room or foyer.
Embossed Wall Covering:
Anaglypta and Lincrusta wallcoverings:
http://www.shopts.com/wallpaper.htm
http://homearts.com/bvah/12embof1.htm
Painting Furniture and Woodwork
Do you have woodwork or wood furniture that needs sprucing up? If you're not sure, ask
yourself, "Do I like the stain? Is the graining attractive? Is the finish rich?"
If you can’t answer "yes" to these questions, you should consider paint.
Rust-Olean has a specific line of paints, called American Accents,
that is just for the above purpose. The collection is grouped into colors that were meant
to work together.
http://www.rustoleum.com/catalog/accents1.html
Previous Articles In this Series:
Part 1: Work with What You
Have: Determining Likes & Dislikes, Scale, 2nd Opinions, etc.
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