Creative Wallpaper: Ideas & Projects for Walls, Furniture & Home Accessories

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Customize, update, and personalize your walls and decorative accents with the incredible array of wall-paper available today. Forget those rolls of fussy, gaudy, and busy papers of years past. These days you're much more likely to run across sage-colored styles that look like parchment or textured and paintable papers that imitate everything from stucco to hand-hewn wood. Choose your favorites and use them in great projects that will enhance any setting. Get the hang of some wallpapering basics, from the right tools to simple techniques. Then check out new ways to paper your walls. Instead of covering every square inch of a room with a big, overhwelming pattern, you can try an understated print to tie the elements of a room together or a vibrant paper in just a few select spots to add a splash of personality. And why not decorate the ceiling as well by creating faux tin tile from embossed paper? Want a completely different look on your walls that you'll never see anywhere else? Cover them with something other than commercially manufactured paper. Materials as inexpensive as sheets of tissue paper or brown paper wrapping can transform your walls into beautifully textured backgrounds. Even a deck of playing cards can lend personality to a room when pasted in place as a chair rail. Don't toss out those leftover scraps of paper! Use small sections to enhance surfaces other than walls. Give bins and planters a stylish makeover, create an elegant room screen, imitate the look of copper on a picture frame, and refurbish a nightstand. This is how to decorate creatively with wallpaper and lend up-to-date style to your home!

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