sand on the walls – the prettiest wallpaper ever
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Sand on the Walls – The Prettiest Wallpaper Ever
Boxwood in Off White Non-Woven with Sand (TA7028) from Designer Resource, Third Edition, Ronald Redding Designs
It sure sounds like a kid’s art project. (And
like something you definitely don’t want on
your walls!) But trust me -- the minute you
lay eyes on York’s new wall coverings made
with sand, you’ll forget images of scratchy
bathing suits forever.
And not only are these wallpapers chic,
they’re also green.
See -- pretty and brainy do exist!
Take the Boxwood wallpaper, a geometric
pattern with a metallic sheen that could
easily pass for a David Hicks design (A
British designer who pretty much ruled the
70s). I love a neutral with a little oomph --
and this definitely does the trick.
For a look at additional wallpaper made
with sand, keep reading.
Or the delectable Seabury. Fern prints
normally put me to sleep, but this combo of
white sand on a deep blue background feels
completely fresh. I’d love this in a bedroom
with all-white lacquered furniture -- so crisp!
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Lattice on Charcoal Non-Woven with White Sand (CX1227) from Candice Olson Dimensional Surfaces
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And let’s not forget about Lattice, a
wallpaper that bridges the gap between
bachelor pad–chic and a decorative yen.
(Yes, there is something in the world
of decoration that both men and
women can love!)
And for those lovers of all things
organic, Cobble River Rock delivers
with its amorphous pebble/giraffe spot/
cloud design.
Seabury Royal Blue Non-Woven with White Sand (SX7744) from Monogram IV, Ronald Redding Designs
Cobble River Rock on Champagne Non-Woven with Natural Sand (TA6980) from Designer Resource, Third Edition, Ronald Redding Designs
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Better Homes and Gardens
100 Decorating Ideas Under $100
Fall 2009
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Geo Flower Scroll (GC0744) from Stacy Garcia Luxury Wallpapers; yorkwall.com.
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Geo Flower Scroll (GC0744) from Stacy Garcia Luxury Wallpapers; yorkwall.com.
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Stacy Garcia Geo Mum GC0833, yorkwall.com
70 smart art
Get inspired with custom artwork. Start
by wrapping a canvas with wallpaper and
stapling it in place on the back. Print a
favorite quote or phrase onto inkjet
waterslide decal paper. Cut out the words
and soak them in water for about a
minute. Peel the back off the paper and
place the decal onto the canvas (the white
background will dry transparent). Add
a shelf for a lightweight vase by screwing
a small piece of wood into the bottom
wooden stretcher.
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Hartford Courant
March 16, 2009
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No Shrinking Violets
Peel-and-stick wall decals from Roommatespeelandstick.com turn any room into a psychedelic garden. Package of 45 assorted blooms, stems and leaves, $25.49.
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Hospitality Architecture + Design
June 2009
Circulation: 70,000
“Rosato” DSSW513 from Design Works’ Plaza Collection As the first American manufacturer to infuse its residential wallcoverings with sand
and glass, York is now the first to introduce these effects on commercial-grade vinyl
in its new Design Works Collection, called Plaza. The palette is neutral yet the
patterns can be custom-coloured, and in fact translate well into vibrant colors. York
also offers custom designs in flock, sand and glass beads. Having essentially invented
a new kind of embossing with these specialty techniques on vinyl, the tactile textures
add dimensionality that envelops any space, taking sophistication to a whole new
level.
by Eileen ChangYork Wallcoverings – Plaza
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Hospitality Style
March, 2009
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The Boccaccio in Onyx wallcovering by Stacy Garcia is gravure printed, which produces a textural visual effect. Available in six colorways and in 27- and 54-inch widths.
Better Homes and Gardens
Kitchen + Bath Makeovers
Fall 2009
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Traditional Damask (CO2017) from Candice Olson Designs
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Velvet Leaf Trail (CO2025) from Candice Olson Designs
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Packed Leaf (CO2071) from Candice Olson Designs
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Allover Scroll (GC0769) from Stacy Garcia Luxury Wallpapers
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Pattern TB2060 from Tommy Bahama
Bridal Guide
September/October 2009
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KJ0540 from St. James Fine Wallpaper
Southern Living
Before & Afters 2009
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Ocala Star-Banner
August 5, 2009
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Bamboo and other natural fibers, such as sea grass or jute, are easy replacements for heavy rugs and fabrics. Woven Bamboo (AC6097) from By the Sea.
Less is more when it comes to summer
decorating — especially for Florida residents
who live with what can seem like months of
heat and humidity.
By August, with a couple months of
summer still to go, it’s time to strategize the
coolest looks possible.
“Decorating for summer is all about
decluttering,” says Micanopy interior
designer Elyse Ostland, whose own early
20th century bungalow is a lesson in careful
editing. “Summer decorating is bright and
white, a clean, crisp tailored look.”
Simple strategies include editing and
temporarily storing some accessories and
collections, taking up rugs and putting
white slipcovers on upholstered pieces, the
designer says. For clients who have the
ambition and budget to do more, Ostland
suggests dealing with months of summer by
having dark floors refinished in light tones
and having windows installed to open dark
rooms to the outdoors.
The charm of summer decorating is in its
simplicity, says Frances Bailey, deputy style
editor at Country Living magazine.
“Summer is the time to roll up rugs and
replace heavy drapes for simple linen ones.
Backyard bouquets and seashells from the
family’s trip to the beach are the only things
needed on the side tables,” the style editor
says. Also a white slipcover fan, Bailey
suggests a drop cloth, which can be folded
or tied in place, as a quick fix for a dark
chair or sofa.
Another easy change from the pages of the
popular magazine: Replace decorative
pillows with inexpensive ones in poppy
colors.
“Invite summer into your home with these
simple and inexpensive changes,” Bailey
says.
Ocala interior designer David Gadlage, who
lives in a 100-year-old house, shares the
same pared-down approach. Because of the
age of his home, heavy rugs are a necessity
in the winter, he says.
“But summer finds them under beds and
behind doors because I love bare feet on my
hardwood floors all summer,” he says. “I
also take all heavy bedspreads and throws
and extra pillows and store them. And I use
fewer accessories. Pack up lots, and the
rooms breathe easier.”
Indeed, changing out bed coverings and
linens is one of the easiest ways to get
cooler, lighter rooms for summer.
Gainesville interior designer Sally
Thompson suggests replacing heavy spreads
or duvets with matelasse coverlets and
switching to light and summery sheets in
white-on-white schemes. If you want to keep
a heavy duvet or covering, fold it at the foot
of the bed, she says.
Thompson also advocates quick changes for
summer — putting away dark accent pillows
and replacing them with pillows in pale
summer colors and using light colors for
tablescapes in the dining room.
Krissa Rossbund, design editor at
Traditional Home magazine, says she
naturally associates summer and summer
decorating with water.
By Linda Hallam
Lighten UpThe charm of summer decorating is in its simplicity
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Couture with Sand (KN2938), Rosato in Black Flock (KN2860), and Couture with Glass Beads (KN2939) from Ronald Redding Design Works Plaza.
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Q: We have the smallest-ever breakfast area
opening off our kitchen. My husband built
a banquette and hung a light over the table,
but it still makes us claustrophobic! I’m
thinking of wallpapering. Would stripes be
a good idea, just to relieve the squeezed
look?
A: Especially if you run the stripes
horizontally around the walls. It’s a failsafe
optical illusion. Horizontal lines seem to
push the walls further apart, creating --
presto! change-o! -- a room that at least looks
larger.
Professional interior designers have any
number of such illusory tricks up their
sleeves.
You have to love what Valerie Onor (www.
valerieonor.com) has conjured in the tiny
breakfast nook we show here. Thanks to the
charming wall-to-wall mural, it’s sum-sum-
summertime all year long for this
beach-loving family.
Of course, much of the success of a mural
depends on the quality of the artwork itself.
Doubtless, the designer brought in a
professional artist. You can, too, without
spending all your family’s vacation
allowance. Check out local art schools.
There’s always a talented student who’d be
thrilled by such a commission.
You can also buy scenic murals on
wall-coverings that go up easily, sheet-by-
sheet (one top wall-covering manufacturer
to check out is York, www.yorkwall.com).
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Life’s a beach, and summer can last all year in a tiny breakfast nook wrapped in a wall-to-wall painted mural.
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Joi Louviere, 20, realized the trick to giving
a dorm room a home-like feel.
When she moved into Virginia Cleveland
Hall, a women’s dormitory on Hampton
University’s campus, in fall 2007, she
brought pieces of home with her.
The Hermitage, Pa., native took a poster
board, a pair of scissors, a stick of glue and
her favorite pictures to create her little piece
of home. When she moved into her dorm
the collage of high school pictures,
cheerleading competitions and family
Christmas pictures masked the side of the
wall next to her bed.
“When people came into my room that was
one of the first things they looked at,” she
says. “Freshman year people are trying to get
an idea of someone else’s life. They could
walk to the poster and see my whole life in
one view.”
Louviere, now a junior majoring in print
journalism, accented her freshman dorm
room with mainly orange and turquoise, the
two colors she chose from her multicolored
bedspread. From a large orange and
turquoise circular-shaped mirror from Ikea
that hung on her wall to her towel set,
Louviere made sure everything matched the
color scheme of her room. She streamed
white Christmas lights from the top of her
bed to the closet and covered the closet
door with a sheer turquoise curtain.
Louviere’s room was not just cute it was
organized.
“I get confused when there is mess
everywhere,” she says with a chuckle. “So I
have to be as organized as possible in the
beginning or else I won’t be able to find my
homework.”
Once she raised her extra-long twin-sized
bed, Louviere utilized the space underneath
to store two large, stackable bins full of
out-of-season clothing, two smaller bins for
snacks, a refrigerator and luggage.
Her rule of thumb for organizing her closet:
Clothes that will be worn in the next month
get a hanger and the rest are folded into
drawers.
Drawer separators, bottomless and topless
cloth boxes, helped Louviere make the most
use of the room’s large drawers.
She used her top drawer to place her nail
polish, makeup and other personal items.
“My things were in the drawer and
separated so I didn’t have to go digging for
them,” she says.
Louviere also took advantage of making
items in her room serve a dual purpose.
The top of her dresser served as a night
stand. Her stereo system sat on top of the
stand and served as a mantel for her
collection of cheerleading pompoms from
several universities including the University
of Missouri and HU.
After paying her room a visit, Louviere’s
friends made a few changes to their rooms.
“People would come in my room and make
so many comments like ‘Wow, your room is
so cute, and it feels like home,’ “ she says. “I
don’t know if they got the ideas from me,
but I think I might have inspired them to
try and make their rooms feel more like
home.”
Without even knowing it, Louviere followed
some of Christine Brun’s dorm-decorating
tips to a T.
Brun is a San Diego-based, award-winning
interior designer. The expert on design for
small spaces shares her decorating ideas and
ways to make the best use of space to
readers of more than 20 newspapers with
her column called Small Spaces. Here’s
By Lapraya McCoy
Dorm decorating: Here are some tips for designing your new home
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what advice she has to offer from her new
book “Small Space Living” for college
students looking to jazz up their dorm
rooms:
Add life to white walls
Dorm rooms tend to resemble a doctor’s
office, but Brun says all isn’t lost. You’re not
doomed to staring at drab white walls for
the next few semesters. You can save
yourself the misery and add life to your
room with peel-and-stick designs.
“Getting some of these ‘wall pops’ are a
neat way to personalize a head board or put
something on the wall that comes off,” she
says.
They are also referred to as wall decals and
decorative wall stickers. They are as cheap as
$10 a pack. Choose from an array of colors
and designs or create your own. Find wall
stickers at www.roommatespeelandstick.com
among other Web sites or visit Chaffin
Interiors, a business that offers interior
design decor and service, in Newport News.
Search the Web for other places that offer
them if you don’t find what you want.
Build up
When you’re working with little floor space
the trick is to “capture vertical space,” Brun
says. There are all types of hanging
compartments available at www.container
store.com. Hang and store anything from
your shoes to your CDs.
Vertical building leaves floor space for those
items that need it and can add a little splash
of color to your room. Storage bins are not
just available in clear and solid colors. You
can store your clothes in a bin with paisley
designs.
The same rule applies for decorating. Buy
vertical picture frames for your desk to
bring a piece of home to your dorm without
crowding your work space.
Personalize
“Every dorm room starts pretty sterile and
students are encouraged to personalize their
space to make it feel like home,” Brun says.
Students can take images from their own
life and have them blown up on canvas, she
says. This project can be a little pricey, with
www.MuralsYourWay.com charging $12.95
per square foot. “It’s such a great way to put
something large on your wall.”
Or a guy who is into sports may want to
have posters or jerseys decorate his walls,
she says. The idea is to take something that
you like or hold dear to you to use as a
theme to personalize your room.
Make it cozy
A rug or a bean bag may be just the thing.
Or maybe it’s music.
“Seek things that might invite others to
come in your room,” she says.
Brun suggests that an area rug is a
must-have for the dorm room.
To compensate for the often uncomfortable
dorm room mattresses, Brun urges students
to buy extra accent pillows or “plush or lush
things” to cover the mattress.
Bargain decorate
When you’re on your quest to find the
perfect bedspread, don’t rule out T.J. Maxx,
Ross, Marshalls or Goodwill. Students have
to remember they may only stay in the
dorms for a short while.
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