I once worked with a stylist who had a small house either in the Hamptons or the North Fork and she did this to her floor and covered it in finish.

I bookmarked a blog post last year that showed a hotel bathroom with song-sheet wallpaper. I guess the process is the same. http://toftsnummulite.blogspot.com/2011/08/holiday-inspiration-look-no-planes-ii.html

I've never thought of adding book pages as wallpaper. It looks interesting and may try it with my kids room one day
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I've even thought about doing this just by taping the pages up. (In an area where nobody would be likely to touch the wall and mess it up, like using music pages behind the piano or something.) It would take like fifteen minutes to do a small wall that way and you could take it down as soon as you started hating it.

Reminds me of Tilda Swinton's office in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," where she used maps to wallpaper the room. That movie is hard to watch, but her office (pre-child disaster) looks fantastic.

I once did a wall like this, but instead of wallpapering, I just used masking tape to tape the top part of each page to the wall, creating a lovely soft shingled/scaled effect. Much less permanent, which was great in my rental. Only downside was having to retape up pages every so often.

i love the design of the room and the different textures.

the ceiling is really creative...but a bit overwhelming for me. i separate work and sleep and all those pages make me think of work (maybe its my line of work- lots of reading!) but i can see how it could bring others a lot of joy!

Such a cool idea. It'd be neat if you tried dying the pages of the books or encyclopedias as well to match the decor. Gives you more range but it looks great here as is. Great job.

Pretty cool... how is it to remove, though? Better or worse than normal wallpaper? Or does that depend equally on the paste and what the wall you're covering up is like?

I suspect that this photographs well, but looks a underwhelming in person.

Even if you are dead-on, balls accurate (thank you, My Cousin Vinny), the inconsistencies probably look pretty sloppy. That might hold a lot of charm in a display at Anthropologie, but maybe not at home.

this used to be called decoupage. Old magazine advertisements make a colorful and less monotonous alternative.

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I am doing this to a shelf. It's called decoupage. Use some Mod Podge.

I did this to the surrounding area around a chalkboard I painted on my office wall, and everyone who visits compliments it. I used about 20 different books ranging from atlases to encyclopedias to old novels; the variety added great texture.

Use Elmer's white glue - cheap to buy in bulk and super easy to clean up. Probably easy to remove the paper too, given that it's water soluble, but I have no desire to remove my paper collage yet!

If you want easy removal later... great in rentals or if you move often, use liquid starch (as in starching your ironing) as your glue. You can buy it undiluted by the quart and 1/2 gallon in the laundry aisle at the grocery. Use it straight not diluted.

It is strong enough that I've not only used it to put up thick papers but also in one apartment, where I had a high ceiling behind my bed, I bought a couple of King size sheets, soaked them well in the starch, anchored the top corners with staples (because of the weight) then smoothed the fabric to the wall with a squegee. (I cut off the hems that met in the middle of the wall and slightly overlapped the two edges...you couldn't see a seam!) Everyone LOVED IT! The washed sheets were reusable for curtains at the next apartment.

I also bought a few old books in French that had calligraphic writing and did my dining room. I used the same starch, however after the application layer dried, I added some dye to more starch and brushed it on for more effect. And I covered one wall in my office with old maps of different cities and countries I have visited or lived in.

Buy the way, this is much easier and faster to do if you use a BIG PAINTBRUSH or foam PAINT ROLLER. (I can't begin to imagine how time consuming this would be with a little credit card!)
Brush or paint an area of the wall with starch while the pages or fabric are absorbing starch, be generous, and then you can easily put up your pages, push them around in the slippery starch for placement, and smooth them down with the brush or roller.

When it's time to move, rough up a few edges and start peeling. If it doesn't want to easily come off, spray it with lukewarm water to rehydrate the starch and it will peel right off. Then just spray the wall with a little more water and rub down with towels or rags and you're ready to move with a walls that haven't been damaged. The last time I used a Swiffer wet mop to quickly wash them down top to bottom.

P.S. to the person who suggested Elmer's white glue, sorry but it won't rehydrate once it's thoroughly dry.
Another gluing method is to mix up flour and water like we used to do for kites and paper mache projects as kids.
By the way, I learned to do this from my mother at the tender age of 4/5 as an Air Force Brat moving around. Getting new cheap walls of my choice (some where from coloring books which I could then actually color on the wall :), was my reward for not complaining about having to leave my friends behind so often.