Is there a good way to buy less than a full roll? The samples I've been sent are usually about 12"x18", not large enough to look as dramatic as these examples. And an entire roll (especially the double-size ones) is pretty expensive.

Does anyone know, in the last photo, what those moldings on the walls are called? They look great with wallpaper in them.

i liked some of the executions better than others but it's a great idea!

I did this for a client of mine of spent her life staying in different hotel suites around the world. I framed large panels of her favorite hand painted chinoiserie wallpaper, and wherever she stayed, in would go her furniture and on the walls would go her favorite wallpaper. This is also great for renters, for people with commitment issues and for people like myself who like to change rooms as often as they change coffee filters.

..."a client of mine who", I was typing while watching HGTV.

Really great idea. So simple, yet I never thought of it. Will definitely give it a try.

We did that with some old 1880's wallpaper rolls that were hoarded in an old armoire that my mother inherited. We sort of installed some of it in the back of glass-front built-in wall cabinets at her house.

But some bits were just right for framing, and we hung some there, some at my sister's place and then a tiny little oval cartouche of one of them in my dining room. That pattern ended up providing the DNA of my dining room.

Framing looks expensive though. Any affordable methods to frame?

I've done this with handmade papers (I've used sheets of gift wrap). My favorites have lots of depth to the color and are highly textured. It's a really inexpensive solution and the panels can be changed out frequently -- for example, seasonally. An easy way to mount the paper is on inexpensive pre-streched canvasses. You can cover the sides of the canvass as if your were wrapping a package, or you can miter the corners of the paper. You can also cut the paper to the size of the front of the canvass and paint the sides. All you need to complete the project is spray-on adhesive or glue, or a staple gun. If you use repositionable adhesive or glue, you can remove the paper and store it, and re-use the canvass indefinitely. I starting using the canvasses because I have plaster walls and the canvasses are light and easy to hang, and becasue I first used a set of panels as a visual "headboard" on the wall behind my bed and didn't want to risk something heavy falling during the middle of the night.

Last thought: An easy, inexpensive way to frame is to cut molding to fit the canvass (or whatever material you use, like masonite, mdf or plywood), miter the corners, paint or stain, and glue and/or nail into place (with a nail gun to make it quick and simple).

I can't wait to use this idea when I move to my next apartment. I already have a habit of picking up rolls of wallpaper that catch my eye at thrift stores, then I line drawers with them.

In the first picture, the bamboo molding/framing, can anyone point me toward a great resource for that? I have 60 botanicals to frame, drawn by a distant relative (4th cousin), and have been searching for molding to make my own frames. Even at a few high-end framing shops I wasn't able to track down frames in that style... getting desperate and ready to abandon the project!

Rucy- I bought similar frames at Cheap Petes on Geary if you are in SF, in their framing department. I think Cheap Petes is super reasonable. Also, The Painters Place on Hayes has them, they do amazing work and I go there for more valuable art framing.

After buying a great piece of fabric, which ended up being to nice to upholster pillows with, I stretched it on a 40"x40" heavy duty stretcher bars (for oil paintings) and hung it on my wall.
Fabric from Luigi Bevilacqua and stretchers from Dick Blick's Art Store on Bond Street.

Inexpensive framing can be done using molding purchased at Home Depot or Lowe's. I purchased a wooden picture frame at Michael's for 50% off, used a scrap of repositionable wallcovering and applied it directly over the glass. I hung it on the horizontal over a twin bed for a headboard.
The picture in the upper right corner looks like it could be a screen, which offers great versatility. In an apartment where there never seems to be enough storage space, a screen can provide another "closet".

I recently made screens for my workplace with shoji paper and custom cut frames. It was super easy - you can order custom cut frames that have little snap in plastic pieces that go together perfectly in seconds. Maybe I could have saved a little by making the frames from scratch but my time is worth money too. I ordered my pre-cut frames cheaply through http://www.framing4yourself.com/ They were super helpful (I called to ask questions) and fast.