I saw this wallpaper in a powder room while taking the Houston Heights Home Tour last Sunday . This pattern was wildly popular about 10 years ago. Imagine squeezing under that console sink with metal legs to place the wallpaper under there.
Another shot, showing a little more of the fir down / soffit over the sink . According to Wikipedia , the designer, Hunt Slonem , started developing his obsession with all things bunny in the early 1980’s . He’s produced lots of different incarnations, and they’ve been used in wallpaper , fabric , artwork , kitchenware , decorative items , and everything in between.
Such a fun pattern. “And they breed like – rabbits!” This wallpaper is notoriously difficult to install . More on that in a future post.
Bathroom sink room before. Note the very heavily textured wall surface . Here’s the surface after I skim-float ed with smoothing compound and sanded it smooth .Done. I got the butterfly and yellow flower at the ceiling line … … and the bunnies sitting right above the backsplash . The narrow strips of dark wallpaper in between the closet doors really make the pretty woodwork stand out . From a distance, this pattern has a 3-D look. It looks like paper cut-outs ! The pattern is called Woodland and is by Fine Decor , a company in England .
Unlike most modern European wallpapers , which are printed on a user-friendly non-woven substrate , this one was what we call a traditional British pulp . This means it’s a sort of raw paper, a dry , brittle material that tears easily and is difficult to trim , among other special needs. Definitely not a DIY product .
The pulp backing drags and snags when trimmed , even when you use a brand new blade . The edges abrade very easily, or even came off the roll that way. There was also a printing defect streak running through one double roll bolt . More on working with these pulp wallpapers in previous and upcoming posts. The home is in the Montrose / Upper Kirby area of Houston . installer install birds
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