We have a thing for custom-made wall paper, that is, wall paper with images we would love to see, rather than the usual flowers and stripes. Although we aren’t crazy about the DIY wallpaper we saw on San Francisco Girl by Bay recently, we LOVE and see huge possibilities in the process. Writes SFGBB Editor…
Read MoreAfter we wrote about Holton Rower’s ingenious invisible magnetic wall for easily displaying art and photographs, a reader alert us to this iteration of a magnetic wall panel. Luis Pons Design lab created magnetic wallpaper i.e. a magnetic panel that could be afixed to a wall. It allows anyone to move a fine metal mesh over the panel…
Read MoreWhen we looked closely at this stumbled-upon image of Henri Matisse, we realized that the wallpaper behind him was really tacked up prints and drawings. Brilliant. Looking for more, we found a trove of ideas to employ.
Read MoreKraft paper is so wildly useful that if I had the room in my city apartment, I’d keep a roll on a wall to have easy access when the mood/need hits.
Read MoreViewing the installations scattered through Marcus Garvey Park’s art fair, we were struck by a brick wall covered with vivid flower patterns, overlaid with portraits of women of color. OUTDOOR WALLPAPER! Why hasn’t anyone thought of that…or have they?
Read MoreImages artfully-collaged can transform a wall, providing a unified field of pattern and often, meaning. Surround yourself with images you love to look at…reminders perhaps…
Read MoreBryan Landers, creator of the wonderful 3 Good Things app, has a lot of interesting ideas up his sleeve. At Medium, we found an article he’d written about making his own motivational phone wallpaper. His thinking is compelling and his method simple and easy. We tried it ourselves.
Read MoreWe passed Ateliers Dubois Antiques in Harlem a number of times in the evening when it was closed, pressing our nose against the window to look in and marvel at…its wallpaper: roughly painted sheets or ordinary 8.5-x-11-inch paper. Last weekend, we found the store open and wandered in to take a closer look. We got…
Read MoreWhile we were mulling the theme of crumpled paper (or Tyvek) being employed in novel and useful ways, we stumbled on Japanese design studio Naoya Matsumoto Design‘s use of crumpled tracing paper to transform a Japanese gallery in Osaka into a cozy pop-up bar. Ahhh, a swell, inexpensive new decorating material we hadn’t thought of: like a sheer, crisp fabric…
Read MoreWe use Kraft paper all the time for jobs around the house — as a big page to block out ideas, a drawable tablecloth, decoratable wrapping paper, table protection when doing messy projects, and desk blotter/notepad. Right now, we have the roll standing upright in our tool closet. When we need paper, we have to unroll…
Read MoreLately, we’ve been seeing some appealing images of watercolor walls. Hmmm. Nice. Of course we thought, we’ll do that ourself. Easier said than done. From our limited knowledge of it, the beauty of watercolor has much to do with the paper, which allows the paint to bleed in interesting ways. So we started hunting for solutions.
Read MoreItaly Ohaly’s installation of colorfully-painted walls covered in black paper invites wiewers to scratch off the paper to make unexpected colored patterns in the walls. We were wondering how that could work in a house when we found Tear-Off-Wallpaper.
Read MoreConverse All Stars and other sneakers make great instant rubber stamps for floors and walls, not to mention wrapping paper.
Read MoreRecently we posted about services that sell wall murals —both readymade and custom of your own photograph or design — to transform a room. The usual approach is to hang one big mural of an image or design on a wall. We’re smitten with this iteration from Milan-based Studiopepe. The image is a graphic black-and-white photograph,…
Read MoreMarc Berenson sent us some snaps of magazine wallpaper he spotted at Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The subject line read: I thought you might have an opinion on this homemade wallpaper from old magazine pages, it’s improvised For sure we have an opinion: Although it kinda works in a public stairwell with that…
Read MoreWe LOVE New York-based creative alissia melka-teichroew‘s series of ballpoint pen wallpaper designs, part of rollout‘s artist series. The made us want to got right up into a corner and start doodling, and drawing stripes…
Read MoreEvery since it burst on the scene, we’ve been in love with washi tape masking tape, using it for all sorts of decorative purposes, from wrapping gifts to tacking images or making signs on walls; we’ve posted about it a number of times. Then, over a year ago, we stumbled on a post about washi tape…
Read MoreArt Director Gustavo Vieira has created a an Is Life Good tumblr where you can download this sign in different resolutions customized for your computer, tablet or phone, to use as wallpaper FREE… …A great, simple to-the-point question/answer/reminder. via Swiss-Miss Related posts: ‘replace fear of the unknown with curiosity’ gandhi: ‘our beliefs become our…destiny‘ ‘what’s not…
Read MoreWe forgot how great old-fashioned crepe paper streamers are for jazzing up a space until we stumbled pictures we clipped from Aesthetic Outburst ages ago: it’s an easy way to give a room charmingly festive atmosphere with a bit of “kid” in it. The magic is all in the colors you choose like this mix…
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, the foyer of my family’s GreenwichVillage house was papered with blueprints of the building, the inspiration of our friend David Barrett, an interior designer, who always had amazing ideas. In those days, house plans were really blue, with white type and design, and came in big glossy folded sheets or…
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