When making your home look unique the sky’s the limit. The key to designing a unique home isn’t about expensive furniture, you can achieve a distinctive look by utilizing many different tactics. Wallpaper is a fun and unique underused design resource that can be used to make almost anything have a fresh look. Wallpaper is not just for your walls, either. It can be used on a variety of different surfaces and comes in thousands of different patterns. Grab some wallpaper and utilize it for your dresser, your stairs, cabinets, walls, or furniture and give your home a fresh new look.
Dress up a Dresser
The face of your dresser can easily go from boring to amazing with wallpaper. All you need is a dresser, some wallpaper, mod podge, and a knife. There are many tutorials on how to complete this fun DIY project yourself. This is a great way to save money and upcycle an old dresser to make your area look like yours and no one else’s. Instead of just utilizing wallpaper, try painting the entire dresser an accent color and apply a complimentary wallpaper to the face of the dresser. Mix and match the wallpaper with each drawer, apply wallpaper to the top of the dresser, or even the inside of the drawers.
Help your Stairs Stand Out
The application process for each wallpaper project is really similar, so utilizing wallpaper for your stairs is easy once you’ve gotten the application process down. There are many ways to step up the décor on your stairs, but wallpaper is such an easy and fun option to make your stairs look fun and beautiful. For an area that is so easily forgotten there are endless patterns and colors available to make your home look unique. Just remember to measure every stair instead of using the same measurement for each one as some of your stairs may be slightly different sizes.
Colorful Cabinets
The face of your cabinets is a blank canvas that has the potential to be a beautiful part of your kitchen. The key with wallpaper cabinets is to be careful about overdoing it. Consider an accent cabinet, or a complementary pattern or color that is a little more subtle than overpowering in order to keep your kitchen from looking too busy and overwhelming. This is an easy DIY project that will make the world of difference. Just be aware that the wallpaper may ruin your cupboards should you choose to remove it.
Accent a Wall
Wallpaper was obviously initially intended to be on a wall, so why not utilize its original purpose in the form of an accent wall. Whether it’s a bedroom wall, a bathroom wall, or a living room wall, wallpaper can be used to brighten up one of these rooms with a fun and complimentary pattern. Be careful about mixing and matching patterns within these rooms. Try doing research on some examples to help get some inspiration. When applying wallpaper to the entire wall, be sure to follow a wallpaper application tutorial in order to keep your wall and the paper intact. Whether you’re looking for something bright and flowery or textured and minimalistic, you’ll find a wallpaper that will accent your wall perfectly.
Fancy Furniture
Utilize some of your own furniture to create an accent piece. Use a coffee table, end table, television stand, desk, etc. and dress it up with some amazing designs. Upcycle some thrift store furniture and find a wallpaper design to accent the room it belongs in. You can even find an end table, take the drawers about, and wallpaper the hole it leaves to keep books or make a little nook for your cat or small dog. The great thing about wallpaper (as opposed to paint) is the ability to utilize patterns and texture that you can’t get with paint.
Wallpaper is sometimes seen as an outdated design tool, but it’s incredibly versatile and easy to use. With so many design options, it can be easy to take it too far and utilize it too much, but with the right project you can create a completely unique look to a room that no one else will have. Use it to create an amazingly fresh accent wall, or use it on cabinets or other furniture. Utilize its versatility to create the perfect DIY project for you.
