The not so many adventures in wallpapering

My unmade bed with empty walls.

Happy Friday Everyone! As I wrote in my little bio, I said I would share pics of my room once I wallpapered it.  Well, turns out wallpapering is HARD! How did I not know this? For some reason I thought I could just slap it up there and be done….not so much.  You have to make sure its “plumb” to your wall and all sorts of technical things that I was not prepared to tackle, but boy did I try! I borrowed my dad’s level and drew my “plumb” line and even managed to put up one panel as you can see in the “middle” pic.  The wallpaper I bought was pre-pasted so all I had to do was soak the back side and stick it up, but my poor little panel was SO wrinkled! And on top of that after I cut a few more panels I realized I did not have enough wallpaper – ugh! I decided to take a time out and rethink things.

My sad single panel.

During my time out, I had a centipede incident that my co-workers are well aware of! I found the nasty creature on my ceiling above my bed one night in the corner and it spurred me into action.  I decided to rearrange my room to get rid of the bad bug karma and thought of a new way to use my wallpaper.  I moved my bed so that it was no longer in the corner and wanted the wallpaper and bed to be my focal point.  I used my wrapping skills and wrapped the wallpaper around large boards I had and after a few trial and errors managed to hang them mostly centered above my bed!!

Yay! My new room!

What do you think?!  There is a window to the right of my bed and I need help to find a curtain, any suggestions? Should I go with more pattern or stick to solid?  Have a great weekend everyone!!

As a designer here at The Gift Wrap Company, I love a good repeat! When I'm not creating brightly colored designs at work, you'll find me shopping, I have a slight obsession with clothes. I recently moved and have decided to wallpaper my room, I'll post pictures of it when it's done, I have never wallpapered before so it will be an adventure! I love all things chocolate and coffee and have a habit of bringing in goodies to share at work. I have also recently become interested in hot yoga and took some classes with Jamie and Sarah, very sweaty but really relaxing! On the weekends during the summer, I try to make it to the beach on Cape Cod as much as possible to make up for all the cold weather and snow during the winter here in New England. And one last thing...GO SOX!