Dare to Commit to Brilliant, Bold Wallpaper
After recently checking out Paris-born artist Alix Soubiran’s magnificent home and wall designs, I am newly in love with wallpaper. Loving texture and blacks/whites/mahoganies, I sometimes turn away from the idea of wallpaper because of its bold statement and requirement to commit.
I need an attitude adjustment. Wallpaper can immediately infuse a home with personality — it can turn a home with mediocre architectural structure into a completely pleasant atmosphere, and a home with great bones into a masterpiece. And there’s hope for those who, because of renting or the (ahem) fear of such large commitment, want less permanent wallpaper. Check out, for instance, Tempaper’s self-adhesive temporary wallpaper. And (key point for me): Wallpaper can have stark and bright color like this first photo or be bold and memorable through texture and pattern as much as through color.
Yet why not fully commit to a paper that will have you walking into the room simply to view it and smile? Why not commit? Why not let your walls say, this is what you love, this is who you are. Take a look at how each of these spaces have been made into their own little wonderful worlds, through their walls.
I need an attitude adjustment. Wallpaper can immediately infuse a home with personality — it can turn a home with mediocre architectural structure into a completely pleasant atmosphere, and a home with great bones into a masterpiece. And there’s hope for those who, because of renting or the (ahem) fear of such large commitment, want less permanent wallpaper. Check out, for instance, Tempaper’s self-adhesive temporary wallpaper. And (key point for me): Wallpaper can have stark and bright color like this first photo or be bold and memorable through texture and pattern as much as through color.
Yet why not fully commit to a paper that will have you walking into the room simply to view it and smile? Why not commit? Why not let your walls say, this is what you love, this is who you are. Take a look at how each of these spaces have been made into their own little wonderful worlds, through their walls.
I'm not the only one who adores this wallpaper for its marriage of Eastern and midcentury modern sensibilities, for its ability to shock and yet provide a consistent background for the sleek sideboard and mirror. Bravo wallpaper! Next: More ways with wallpaper
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