Eating Room Wallpaper – A Lovely Mess

In at the moment’s publish, I’m so excited to share our eating room wallpaper. When designing a small house like our breakfast nook (positioned off our kitchen), wallpaper could make a big effect and be really transformational.

Selecting a wallpaper that evokes your splendid temper (mine is heat and comfortable) is vital. On this publish, I’ll share photographs of my wallpapered eating room, ideas for selecting the best wallpaper in your house, and all the pieces you might want to find out about getting wallpaper put in.

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Remodeling Our Eating Room with Wallpaper

Once we bought this house, we immediately fell in love with this little nook that options unique built-ins. It’s such a joyful, sunny house and I couldn’t wait to brighten it!

The room was beforehand wallpapered with a unusual, trendy wallpaper that includes monkeys. After I shared it in my empty house tour video, many individuals commented that we must always preserve the monkey wallpaper. To me, that’s the lovely factor about wallpaper—it may be so wildly private and expressive!

I knew I needed a wallpaper that felt heat and comfortable— nearly an autumn-year-round form of vibe. I additionally needed a paper that may very well be from the period when our house was constructed, in 1904.

I thought of a whole lot of totally different papers, cautious to ascertain every one adorned with Halloween, Christmas, or children party decorations. I ended up selecting this Medlar pattern. The floral sample felt the proper mixture of cozy, inviting and historic.

What to Contemplate When Selecting Wallpaper for Your Eating Room

• All the time purchase wallpaper samples. Wallpapers might be totally different in particular person than they seem on-line. If you’re buying from a spot like Anthropologie that doesn’t have samples, discover the wallpaper some place else that does provide them. It’s at all times value the additional $5-$10 per pattern to see them in particular person. I preserve a set of samples as a result of generally I discover a house for a sure sample afterward as nicely.

• Contemplate the dimensions and options of your house. Massive scale prints look nicer in huge open rooms, whereas tremendous tight repeats can look nicer in smaller rooms. I at all times ask the recommendation of my wallpaper installer for whether or not or not they assume a sample will look good in an area. Rooms with a whole lot of angles want extra forgiving patterns in order that it’s much less noticeable.

• Contemplate the period of your house. For my historic house, I wish to use patterns that would have existed on the time it was constructed. Extra trendy and funky patterns I feel are a greater match for newer or mid-century houses. It’s value contemplating if yow will discover a wallpaper choice you’re keen on that fits the period of your house. After all, it’s your house and the ultimate name is yours—so select what speaks to you and what you already know you’ll take pleasure in for a very long time.

• I at all times use an expert installer. In my expertise, the value of the wallpaper is usually about equal to the value of the installer’s labor. So, a big room with plenty of angles may cost a little a number of thousand {dollars} for set up and a small room, like this breakfast nook, is usually underneath $1,000 for set up. The rationale I at all times use an expert is as a result of I’m not a perfectionist and this job requires precision and talent. To me, it’s value it to rent an expert for this job.

• Many wallpaper installers won’t set up peel and stick wallpaper, so you should definitely test. I strongly favor conventional wallpaper over peel and stick until it’s for a really small house (possibly lining cabinets or a closet). I’ve had a whole lot of points with peel and stick wallpaper by the years that I’ve not skilled with conventional wallpaper.

Right here’s how the wallpaper turned out in our breakfast nook. I like the way it accents the unique built-ins and large home windows. It’s such a heat and pleasant house!

Wallpapers I Thought-about for This Room

Elsie’s Eating Room Sources

Thanks a lot for studying! I’m so excited to take you together with me as I slowly enhance our historic house. Let me know if in case you have any questions within the feedback part. Love, Elsie

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