Before & After: A Bedroom Gets Bold With Stamps

Adrienne BreauxHouse Tour Director
Adrienne BreauxHouse Tour Director
For more than 10 years, I've led Apartment Therapy's real home content, producing thousands of house tours from around the world. Currently, I live in my maximalist dream home in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my partner, a perfect dog, and a cute cat.
published Oct 18, 2014
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Unmade bed with floral bedding, cardboard box, and cluttered items in a corner of a plain room.
(Image credit: Shehzeen Rehman)

A white wall can be quite the inspiring canvas for interesting or even a little crazy ideas. Shehzeen had one of those ideas, and though her husband was a little dubious, after she finished DIYing a statement wall in their bedroom, there’s no doubt it was a brilliant — and easy-to-do — idea!

(Image credit: Shehzeen Rehman)

From Shehzeen:

When I moved into my current apartment, I immediately knew I wanted a statement wall for my bedroom and everything else could happen around it. So I painted it. Hated it. Repainted it. Googled for inspiration. Came up with nothing. Thought some more. Questioned why the universe was conspiring against me. And then I knew what I had to do. Stamping.

I love dragonflies and having a bunch of them share my bedroom just made perfect sense. I picked up a stamp, calculated the positions for each dragonfly and stamped away. Three hours down and I had a big-impact, super inexpensive statement wall; easy peasy.

I went for a symmetric grid, but if you go for a random pattern, you’ll get this done in virtually no time.

Thank you Shehzeen! See how she did it on her blog.