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So damn gorgeous!

Where did you get your emoboseed wallpaper?

Madtrait,

Lori found her embossed wallpaper online by googling "embossed wallpaper".

Best,
Abby

looks great on the door, you could also frame it as artwork

i'm wondering if this could be used to accomplish a tin ceiling effect. any thoughts on how this could work on a ceiling?

I've used this a couple of times before: Once painted with very metallic silver paint for a tin look, and once painted white to cover the lower half of badly cracked plaster walls with a chair rail. In this case I painted the both wallpaper and the chair rail white. I bought my wallpaper at Home Depot, and I still have some of the original roll left, they're huge! I will be using it for a back splash in my new apartment.

I've seen it at Home Depot too
Sometimes its called Anaglypta
My mother did her backsplashes with it an painted them gold, they looked amazing. I think she did that 10 tears ago

Stunning!
I'm googling and getting way too many results thought...
Would be much obliged if you could let me know where your wallpaper came from- I love that pattern!
Thanks
Ian

For the canadians reading this, you can get Debbie Travis embossed wallpaper at Canadian Tire.

To make the painting process easier, you can also apply your first coat as the 'background colour', and then apply your second coat with a hard roller, so that it only colours the raised parts of the paper. A much more mistake proof process, i'd think!

http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443289242&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396672772&bmUID=1206481352815&OmniCrossSell=0481048%20Debbie Travis Metallic Paint

i believe i bought the wallpapers featured here at www.rensup.com and/or www.creativewallcovering.com. unfortunately, i bought some of them several years ago so you might need to wade through all of the links if you don't see what you like at these sites!

as for deeliscious' process, that might work just fine and be easier for some wallpapers. however, one would have to be very careful about the amount of paint on the roller when applying the color for the raised areas so that it doesn't "spill" into the recessed areas. a lot of it depends on the type of wallpaper you wind up using: how large are the recessed areas, how raised are the raised areas, etc. i tried a lot of different methods (including an additive technique like the roller method) to get the effect i desired, and the process described is the one i found worked the best for my wallpapers.

thanks lori!

best,
abby

I found some of the paintable embossed wallcovering at www.designyourwall.com.