Here’s an eye-catching design reminiscent of agate stone. I have hung similar patterns, but this is the first that has a continuous horizontal striped effect.
It really expands the feel of this small powder room, by visually pushing the walls away.
The wallpaper is by Thibaut. The interior designer is Rachel Goetz, of Rachel Goetz Interiors. This home is in the Galleria neighborhood of Houston.
The plumber jammed the toilet tank right up against the wall.
No problem for anyone using the toidie. But for the person trying to hang wallpaper in this room, it creates a problem.
Normally, I can fish wallpaper behind a toilet tank. But in a case like this, I would have to cut around the tank, and try to push the cut edges of paper as tight to the tank as possible.
These cut edges are likely to be visible. And they are also potential problems for curling edges or peeling paper.
For this job, the designer said she will have someone remove the tank, and that will enable me to run the paper to the floor intact.
Here’s a pattern that settles nicely into the background, while embracing the room with warmth and texture and a little humor.
Humor? Well, I think the little lines look something like the crinkles that people get around their eyes when they smile.
This wallpaper pattern is called ‘Taos’ and is by Thibaut Designs.
The interior designer is Stacie Cokinos of Cokinos Design. She does fresh, clean, livable, family-oriented whole-house remodels or new builds, primarily in the Heights and Garden Oaks areas of Houston.
A ‘finished’ pic of the bathroom I did last week.
This “dots and blocks” or “rivets” pattern is pretty popular. Phillip Jeffries makes one called “Rivets” and Thibaut has a similar one called “Union Square.” These are both textured products on grasscloth. (Do a Search here to see my installations of both of these.)
This version is 1-dimensional, but with the added fun of shiny metallic-like Mylar.
It’s printed on a dimensionally-stable non-woven backing, and can be hung by pasting the paper (which I did) or pasting the wall.
The manufacturer is A Street Prints, in the U.K.
Look in the center of the photo, and you will see much of the background foliage is missing.
Somewhere along the line, something at the factory interfered with ink transferring from the rollers onto the paper.
If I had put this on the wall, there is a good chance that no one would notice it.
But I did notice it, and I had enough paper that I could replace this strip.
Please excuse the bad exposure, and look at the cool color of this wildly fun wallpaper. See the true color in the 3rd photo.
The homeowner worried that the marble floor with black diamond inlays looked dated (the townhome was built in the ’90’s). And this room, along with the adjoining master bath, was awash in blah tan paint … on everything – walls, ceiling, moldings.
Her original choice was a dark green paper with tulip type flowers spaced out on it. I didn’t want to tell her, but it sure looked dated to me. And I mean ’70’s. Luckily, her husband didn’t like it, either.
He DID approve of this much more fun and colorful pattern. In the larger master bathroom, it would have been overwhelming. But in just the potty room, it really packs a wallop!
This wallpaper pattern is by Justina Blackeney. Her line is pretty wild, so Google it and have fun!
Although the label doesn’t state so, I believe that the paper is actually made by York, in their Sure Strip line. It is pre-pasted and easy enough to work with, although quite slippery due to the shiny surface.
This wallpaper pattern by Justina Blackeney has a really long pattern repeat – 45″. That means that any given design motif appears only about every four feet!
See photo, where I have rolled the paper out on my table.
Depending on the height of your walls, matching the pattern could result in a tremendous amount of waste. Indeed, I was cutting off and throwing away about 2′ of paper for every strip I put on the wall.
That’s why a strip count is a more accurate way to measure for how many rolls of paper you need, instead of going strictly by square footage.
This is one of my all-time favorite wallpaper patterns. It’s just pretty – PRETTY.
I’m told it dates back to the late 1800’s – about the same time the manufacturer founded its company. In fact, the paper is 18.5″ wide, instead of the more standard 20.5″ width, because it is printed on the same rollers and drums that were used back then.
I’ve hung it many times over two decades. But I think this is the first time I’ve done this aqua colorway.
The under-the-stairs powder room is too small for me to get good photographs. But you can see how the paper glows.
This wallpaper pattern is by Thibaut Designs, one of my favorite brands. If you look closely at the last photo, you can see the “raised ink” used in the printing process. I love that look and feel.
The material is pre-pasted, so all you have to do is wet it to activate the paste. I do also run a light coat of augmentive paste on the wall.
The home is in the Tanglewood area of Houston.
It was bought from my favorite source for good quality, product knowledge, expert service, and competitive price – Dorota Hartwig at Southwestern Paint on Bissonnet near Kirby. (713) 520-6262 or dorotasouthwestern@hotmail.com. She is great at helping you find just the perfect paper! Discuss your project and make an appointment before heading over to see her.
See that funny jut-out near the top of the photo? That is the underside of a stair, cutting into the sloped ceiling of this powder room.
As I hung wallpaper around this room, at first I thought I would match the pattern of this 10″ high stair-area to the pattern on its left.
But then I realized that the vertical (striped) element of this design was pretty noticeable. And that it would look better if the stripes below the stair area lined up with the stripes on the stair area.
This caused a slight pattern mis-match in the corner to the left. But I think it looks much better to have the vertical foliage elements line up, as well as to maintain the sequence of birds and leaves.
Also, instead of matching the bird motif to the bird under the stair, (which no one would see), I chose to line up the bird figures so they would be continguous as you viewed them from standing-height as you entered the room.
As for the slight pattern mis-match to the left … I took a part of a bird that matched the design, and appliquéd it over the corner. Now all you see is a bird, and no one notices that a few leaves don’t match up perfectly.
Wallpaper jargon, and too complicated, I know. Just look and note that the pattern continues vertically from floor to ceiling. This didn’t just “happen.” It all was planned out and engineered.
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