Tropical Foliage Re-Do – Peel & Stick Debacle UnDone

Re my previous post about an under-the-stairs powder room that the homeowners attempted to install an argumentative peel & stick material … here is the finished room after I stripped off the P&S, smoothed the walls, and hung the new wallpaper choice. I engineered to place the sole philodendron leaf down the center of the ceiling.

Where the under-the-stairs ceiling met the area over the door, the two surfaces came together in a very sharp angle. It was difficult to get in there and work, and to get the paper tight into the joint. Fingers can be too fat, so this is where tools can squeeze in there and save the day. This is also my kill point . Do a search here on that term for more info. A long story and maybe an hour or more of work, but you will note that there are no pattern mis-matches here. The homeowners were out of town, so I felt unpressured and could take as long as I needed to make these three areas look seamless.

I love the hand-painted, water colory look of this pattern.

This photo shows the joint where the walls meet the sloped under-the-stairs ceiling. A wallpaper pattern will never match perfectly in these situations. At first, I tried a few tricks to ” fool the eye .” But I decided it looked crisper and less distracting to just trim the two papers where they met. Here, we had the advantage that the tropical foliage pattern was busy enough that, I mean, really, when you step three feet back, who’s gonna notice a minor pattern mis-match, anyway? The pattern does match in the corners on either side behind the toilet, though (see photo). Even though this only 4.5″ high, it does lend subtle continuity to the room.

When I see Candice Olson, I fast forward to glitz and glam and glitter and shimmer. Here her tropical foliage design is a bit more main stream. York is the mother company, and I love their products.

This home is in the Heights neighborhood of central Houston.

Traditional Update for Rice Military Area Master Bathroom

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The pre-existing layer of wallpaper in this master bathroom in the Rice Military (Memorial Park) neighborhood of Houston was not holding up well (see top photo, and also see yesterday’s post).

After the existing material had been removed, the walls had been primed, the room is ready for either wallpaper.

The new choice is not that much different from the original. Except that it’s brighter, and has more movement, as you can see the pattern moving vertically up the wall.

One of the homeowners’ reasons for purchasing this was because the colors coordinated beautifully with three pieces of hand-painted art in the adjoining bedroom (not pictured).

This wallpaper is by Exclusive Wallcoverings. It is a non-woven material and is designed to be hung via the paste-the-wall method. After trying my favorite method of pasting the paper and then having some “issues,” I moved to pasting the wall, and all went well after that.

Non-wovens are designed to strip off the wall easily and in one piece when it’s time to redecorate.