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Powder Room Reveal

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I tell ya it was a race against the clock to finish this room for today’s post. Without much ado come on in;

Powder Room Reveal

All of it thanks to the beautiful vintage style newspaper wallpaper from wallpaper direct!

Powder Room Reveal

This was my first time ever using wall paper and after reading up on how you have to paste the paper and try to align the lines I was dead scared to try. Contrary to my expectations wall papering was super simple and was the easiest project that I’ve done recently. I think the best part was that this fabulous wall paper was “paste on the wall” kind. Did you know you can actually roll the glue onto the wall with a roller (like paint) and then just glue on the wall paper? The only tricky part is aligning the lines for which you do need some patience. More on that here.

If you forgot, this is what we started with (pre-blog pic).

Powder Room Reveal

I love how much lighter the room is now!

Powder Room Reveal

You might remember the mirror from this post. That make over was a real tough one. All frames except the medium black and white one was from Goodwill. We got the caricature of the kiddos done during our San Diego visit. The horizontal large frame used to be on our floating shelf in the family room. The small red and black frames are the same ones in here, my latest thrift store finds totally given a face lift.

Powder Room Reveal

Oh and the black and white pics of the Brooklyn and GW bridges are from the internet that we printed on photo paper from the Office Depot. I introduced you to our rhino here.

Now for the before and after parade.

Powder Room Reveal

The magic of the mirror upgrade!

Powder Room Reveal

One more…

Powder Room Reveal

I couldn’t be more happier about changing my decision to wall paper this room instead of the laundry room.  I’m so in love with that wall paper.

Budget Breakdown

Wall paper – 4 Rolls (I might have used only half of the 3rd roll) Wall paper Direct sent me the paper to review, free of charge. The views and opinions in the post are solely mine.
Wall paper Glue – $20 -Home Depot
Wall paper squeegee thingie – $2 – Home Depot
Mirror – $30 – Local yard sale group
Frame 1 (Caricature) – Already had
Frame 2 (Brooklyn Bridge) – $4 -Goodwill
Frame 3 (GW Bridge) – $1 -Walmart
2 small frames and SFO street art – $0.96 each – Goodwill
Black & White photo print outs – $0.30 each – Office Depot
Rhino – $7 – Ross
 
Total – $67
 

Verdict: LOVE it! I’m a wallpaper convert! Given a chance I would totally do it again.

The best comment: From my daughter; “Amma, now I don’t need to take books to the bathroom. I can just read off the walls!” 🙂

PS: I’m taking the rest of the week off and will be back on Dec 2nd with an awesome giveaway (we are celebrating the 2nd blog birthday a month early)! I have a lot of Christmas fun planned for you through December. So you would have to wait till Jan for the details on this makeover. Happy Thanksgiving!

Update – Please click on the links for the details on each project: Wallpapering, Mirror makeover, Changing the orientation of the light fixture, gallery wall.

 
Disclaimer: Wall paper Direct sent me the paper to review, free of charge. The views and opinions in the post are solely mine.

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