Just a Little Blue House

With an extra long weekend, comes extra responsibility… or something like that. Well, I got lucky and didn’t have to work Saturday so we got ourselves in action and spent three days on housework. It was good that Memorial Day allowed a long weekend for sure because we (Kellan) had a big project to tackle. Kellan took on the stairs, which is a later story, and I tackled the laundry list. This list, while tedious, is actually super fun to have because it means we’re close to finishing the upstairs and we can move on with the kitchen!! I did things like priming and painting closets, touch up painting, covering plugs and switches with their covers, prepping the floors for flooring, etc.

By far, the most exciting thing I got to do this weekend was the wallpaper! Lemme say, I never thought I would be putting up wallpaper in my house nonetheless be excited about said wallpaper. But this stuff is cool If you can see in any previous pictures, we have a built-in headboard that goes from floor to ceiling, about 5 ft. wide and 9 in. deep. We decided a while back that we wanted to put a textured wallpaper on the headboard to make it the accent piece of the room and that we wanted it to be purple. These criterium were really hard to find! We had ordered a couple of samples from one place, but one wasn’t the right color and the second had gold sparkles, so we said no. But, the company we ordered from had a 25% sale one weekend, so we took a chance and ordered a couple rolls of one we hadn’t seen. Well, we got the wallpaper and guess what… gold sparkles. With such a COOL pattern though!

The whole headboard

So I put it up this past weekend and we LOVE the effect it has. And I was wrong, at first glance it may look like gold sparkles, but it is actually a gold fiber woven into the design, so no sparkling Kellan and Rebekahs!

It was interesting to put up…. I had never worked with wallpaper before so it made me a little nervous. I’ve seen my mom do it, but if I remember correctly her’s was prepasted and the one we ordered wasn’t. Really though, rolling paste onto the paper isn’t the hard part, but putting it on the wall is (duh?) lol.

Anyway, it wasn’t too bad once I got the hang of it, but I still seemed to take awhile on it! Which was ok, since I only had other not-so-glamorous things to do

Eventually we will add some trim around the outside and upper edge just to clean it up a little bit, but we have to wait for the flooring for that. Also, the white box in the middle of the headboard is a cubby that we’re pretty sure we’re going to line with cedar.

I love this wallpaper! The design of it is sleek and mesmerizing, it is elegant, and it captures your attention. The color adds richness and the texture of it adds dimension. It is the perfect accent piece in my mind.