Hanging wallpaper with bulldog clips — perfect for apartment dwellers! In her book, A Girl's Guide to Decorating, Ahern has a photo of wallpaper hung from molding with clips. Now we are just trying to find the ideal spot to do this — behind the bed? In the dining room? In the hallway?
This would be such a great way to add color to a blah-beige basic apartment. We would do it with relatively inexpensive wallpaper, and then in places where it wouldn't likely get damaged. What do you think?
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Wallpaper books is (are?) tacky.
Hanging it w/ binderclips is Uber-Tacky.
I think hanging pictures with binderclaps is tacky... doesn't matter what's being hung, it looks cheap and tacky to me.
How do you keep it from fluttering? I could see spray mounting the wall paper on foam core boards and hanging the large pieces like art.
Wow, that looks really cheesy and unattractive. I might believe it's a good idea if you can come up with an appealing looking example, but so far I am not sold.
rktrixy: love that idea!
Binder clips were a lifesaver in places where I've had brick/masonry walls; I'd know a few onto some clear wire and hang art, photos, or holiday cards from the ceiling, gallery style.
With the wallpaper, why not just nail or staple it directly to the wall? It would be more flush and wouldn't flutter. I've done that with giant panels of handpulled decorative paper, and was happy with the finished effect.
OneWallKitchen: love this too!
not my idea of beauty, by any means
Why not just use putty to stick the paper to the wall. It will come off without leaving residue.
This is almost as tacky as that one article about using old CDs as wall decorations.
Sorry, I'm not enthusiastic about this either. I understand the dilemma (trust me, I've resided in an all-white apartment), but I just don't see this as being the answer.
Hanging small posters or clippings with binder clips has a design-studio aesthetic that I find appealing, but using the bulldog clips on such a focal point has a different vibe. Like, "I hung this up to see if I liked it here, and then I was just too lazy to paste it up."
Also seems like a good way to rip and wrinkle an expensive roll of wallpaper.
Not for me- I think I'd rather just put up the wallpaper for real and give up part of my damage deposit.
I think the whole framed wallpaper thing posted on a previous day is a better solution.
rktrixy's idea: good. Hanging from clips: not so much.
"How do you keep it from fluttering?"
I think the fluttering is part of the appeal. It's a playful play on wallpaper's permanance and status. It is taking something that is usually fixed and making it temporary; taking something that has a sense of wealth and elegance and making it cheap(er) and casual. I llike it.
"...It is taking something that has a sense of wealth and elegance and making it cheap(er) and casual..."
Like putting Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in a pair of mom-jeans and an old Dodge minivan...?
Ha, bepsf. Exactly like that.
I am a big fan of Abigail Ahern, but not of this idea. It might look OK in one of her fabulously designed spaces, but I can just imagine the raised eyebrows if a "regular" person tried to do it in their home.
Perhaps it's just better to find a large frame and hang it like a picture.