Posts Tagged ‘'70's’

Wild Retro Flower Power

May 25, 2023
Hall bathroom before . The walls had this super-heavy ” Tuscan ” texture that I spend a day and a half smoothing out .
Finished
Looks so good with the orange painted cabinetry . Also note the really fun tile on the shower to the left.
Colorful and lively ! I had ’60’s & ’70’s music on all day while installing , to compliment the mood .

And poppies – well, ya know … that whole psychedelic thing from back then …

Swedish manufacturer . Lina II , Design midbec , tapeter

This is a pretty nice non-woven material, water and stain-resistant , fairly easy to install , can paste the wall or paste the paper , seams are near invisible . It will be easy to strip off the wall when you redecorate . Affordable price .

Sold by the on-line company wallpaperfromthe70s.com , based out of Germany . Really nice folks.
Here’s a picture of the brand new shower , to show the whole room is colorful and retro vibe .

Bright Botanical for Home Office Accent Wall

January 20, 2023
The windows look out into a green yard,
so the verdant , playful design frames the view perfectly.
The bull-nosed edges on the sides and top of the windows are really tricky to wrap wallpaper around, BTW.
Skim-floating / skim-coating the textured wall to smooth it, along with the puffy wallpaper, added enough thickness to the wall that the blinds on the right would not fit into their brackets. A window covering company can easily trim those down.
Arrrgh! Moving from left to right, the last strip ended up 1/2″ from the corner. That meant that I had to cut a narrow strip and work it into place. Trickier than it sounds.
Note that this required an entire 10′ long strip, to get that 1/2″ wide piece. Always order a little extra!
el like I’m stepping back into the ’70’s !
This ” House Plants ” design is buy MissPrint , a British company. It’s on a non-woven / paste the wall substrate , which is more durable and stain-resistant than traditional papers. And it’s designed to strip off the wall easily and in one piece when you redecorate .
The home is in the Eastwood neighborhood of Houston .
install installer

’70’s Retro Flower Power

December 9, 2020

Here is a home where people are not scared of color, nor of pattern …. What a fun switch from drab to dramatic – with a little groovy tossed in!

The wallpaper is by Sanderson, a British company. Unlike most modern British papers which are of non-woven material, this was printed on a pulp substrate, and the surface felt like vinyl. Once wet with paste, it was fairly flimsy and prone to tear while being trimmed with a razor blade. Once dry, it will be a bit more durable.

This was a small, cramped powder room. It was super appreciated that the homeowners had removed the sink before I started work, so it was much easier to hang paper on that wall.

The home is in the Montrose area of inner loop Houston.