Paper It Fun!

Let’s just say your not ready to redo your walls or resurface your kitchen counters, but you want to tie some basic elements in each room together to give an appealing well-balanced decor throughout your home. Here are some simple decorating ideas using paper illusions wallpaper:

• Kitchen/Dining Area: Gather up some cheap wooden bowls and old glass or metal canisters/jars and apply the Paper Illusions to create a chic coordinating set. Use bowls as a table centerpiece to hold fruit, pine cones, or nuts. You can even put one on the coffee table or fireplace mantle in the living room to tie into other rooms. Use the canisters/jars to hold dry goods, such as flour, sugar & salt. Place a few in the bathroom to hold cotton balls, swabs & personal items.
• Bedroom: Do you have some furniture pieces that need a face lift? A nightstand, a headboard, a dresser or vanity. You can refinish that furniture with Paper Illusions. How about picture frames you can mount on your walls or set on the night stand? You can cover the photo mattes within currently matching frames or actually cover plain mismatched frames to create a matching set.
• Living Room: Do you have some furniture pieces here that need a face lift? A coffee table or some end tables, a bookcase or some shelving unit or a beat-up entertainment center. You can refinish this furniture as well or just portions of it, like a table top or individual shelves. How about some knick knacks like a glass vase, a wooden tray, or a plastic bin…all of these can be easily covered with this decorative paper. Lamp shades & light switches…why not?
• Home Office: Surely you have some cardboard boxes you can turn into beautiful storage bins. You can cover a plastic cup to hold your pens, the shade on your desk lamp and the drab looking wastepaper basket…creating a beautifully coordinated set. Do you have a rusty old file cabinet that’s a complete eyesore…convert that too!
• Bathroom: Surely you have a waste basket in here. And what about that plastic toilet bowl scrubber & stand sitting behind the toilet…and a tissue box. You can cover all of these (and seal them with a polyurethane to protect from moisture) to have a matching set.

I can go on and on, but you’ve got the idea. This decorative faux finish wallpaper is a beginner home decorator’s best friend. Try something simple and see for yourself how easy it is to create beautiful coordinating pieces from stuff you already own. Full 85 square foot rolls are available at most wallpaper stores. Sample packs of every available color and cut partial rolls are available online at WallpaperIllusions.com.

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