This wallpaper-on-the-ceiling trend strongly reminds me of when I pasted up my ceiling with those glow-in-the-dark stars when I was a tweeny-bopper. (Are they still popular now? Or have kids progressed to something way more sophisticated?) And after I saw this trend in Elle Decor, it also popped up in O at Home.
I'm liking the idea of using wallpaper sparingly; like under stairwells and slanted ceilings, but I'm not quite sold on papering up an entire room yet--will it make the room appear smaller, the ceilings lower? Maybe that just depends on the main color of the paper. And for those of us who have gone through the ordeal of scraping 70's era popcorn from our ceilings, could this be an offshoot of that?
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Sooooo my new apartment has great "old world charm", but in the bathroom you are greeted with pastel yellow (overall color) partnered with a burgundy trim. The floor is also pastel yellow tiles in octagon shapes (rather small). The toilet, sink, blinds etc. is white and the wall is painted in an almost eggshell white.
I am at a COMPLETE loss what to do to decorate. If the apartment could be updated in any area it would definitely be the bathroom, but since we are only renting for a few years we can deal with it. Unfortunately I can't paint because we are renting, so I can just use towels, rugs and addtl. accents to decorate. We have a seperate shower, and bath and the shower has glass door so no shower curtain needed.
I just don't know what to do, and I don't know what color to go with. Do I play up the burgundy, do I go white (we have a daughter, white is rough?), do I add another color in there?
Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciate.
Thank you!!!
Hey What2Do,
If you want to send us a photo of your bathroom at la@apartmenttherapy.com, we'll post do a Good Questions post for you...
Best,
Grace
My parents used to do this in their powder rooms with smaller print wallpaper when I was growing up. Because it's a small room, it made the room seem bigger b/c there wasn't that distinct line between ceiling and wall. It worked.
Wallpaper on the ceiling?
I'm in a rent control apartment which has many virtues (chief among them: the proximity to the beach) and ZERO architectural charm.
My greatest woe is the popcorn ceiling. Has anyone tried papering over one?
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