New Wallpaper

For most of us nowadays, if the word 'wallpaper' is mentioned, we would think of what we see on our computer screen! Which reminds me, I must change my Christmas image for something more appropriate!

But let us not forget that real wallpaper is what you stick on the walls of your house. Now, I would like to state that I am NOT a fan of wallpaper. Especially after recently spending energy and frustration scraping it off the walls of my bedroom. However - patterned wallpaper is all the rage at the moment. You can't open a lifestyle magazine or visit a showhouse without being faced by a bold, patterned wallpaper on at least one wall in a room.

So, not to be out done and in my attempt to make my house look gorgeous, contemporary, sophisticated (ok, so I've got a way to go....), I decided to put wallpaper on one wall of my bedroom as part of the overall decorating strategy. I found some nice ones, but then I walked into Habitat before Christmas, saw their new range of designer wallpaper and thought WOW! The cost put me off (£30 a roll), but after my recent decorating efforts in my bedroom, and all the cost cutting methods I had employed (ie., doing it myself!), I decided to splash out on the Habitat wallpaper.

Then, having not ever put up wallpaper before, I also got cold feet about that, so I asked Brian the plumber who had put right my bottom step (see previous post), who is a useful handyman to know and happy to take on jobs other than plumbing.

Yesterday, I got the wallpaper put on the end wall of my bedroom, behind the headboard and over the chimney breast.

The only problem with Brian is that he can sometimes be a little slow and late in actually turning up. On top of that, he's a retained fireman (Driffield do not have any full-time fireman), and carries an emergency bleeper (which sounds like a siron) and can get called at any time. When this happens, he just has to leave what he's doing and go to whatever emergency is happening. If you look at the 3rd photo below - this was the time when Brian did indeed get an emergency call to a chimney fire in a nearby village. Luckly he was only away for an hour, and then came back to finish off my wallpapering!

I knew it would look good, but actually it looks FANTASTIC! I am so pleased with the results. Let me know what you think? The photos don't really do the pattern justice, it has a lot of background patterns which are a contemporary twist on a classic jacquard pattern. It looks much better when you see it close up. Just a couple more things to finish the room and then I think I will live in just my bedroom and never come out!