Popular ” Raphael ” in Heights Mud Room

This nicely renovated bungalow in the Houston Heights had a 3-room suite in the rear of the house. Included were a mud room, a walk-in pantry, and a vestibule leading to the kitchen. This photo shows the mud room before wallpaper. The paper will be installed above the wainscoting.

The mud room finished. I plotted so the trees would land evenly balanced (centered) on the wall.

Pantry before

Pantry after

From kitchen looking through vestibule into mud room, before.

Same area finished. A very, very cool 3-dimensional affect!

Another view of the mud room. The blue colorway of the wallpaper works beautifully with the khaki color of the woodwork.

The vestibule had four doors, and thus four areas in between the doors. In the two larger spaces, which flanked the pantry door, I futzed with the width of the strips so that I could place the trunk of the tree down the center of each space. I didn’t want all four areas to have the tree down the center, so in the third I let the pattern fall as it would, which placed the tree trunk to the left of center. This was a softer look. Sorry – no photo. The fourth space was only about 6″ wide, and the tree trunk would be much too distracting here. So I again manipulated the width of the strips so that only foliage showed between the door moldings in that last space. Sorry – no photo.

Close up

This very popular pattern is called Raphael and is by Sandberg, a Swedish company. Their papers are quite nice. They are on a non-woven material. There are quite a few advantages to these non-wovens, both while working with them and after they are up on your wall.

Tags: 3-dimensional, balanced, blue, bungalow, center, heights, houston, installed, khaki, mud room, non-woven, pantry, raphael, renovated, sandberg, swedish, vestibule, wainscoting, wallpaper