The use of stickers
When you decorate on a budget, or when you have allocated most of your budget in a very special piece of furniture, it sometimes is not possible anymore to afford that very special wall paper you were dreaming of to create a feature wall. In this case we have to be creative and make a fantastic wall decor without the cost.
There are different ways of doing this, including the use of a big painting as a focal point, or use many smaller framed paintings or drawings together, and place them in an interesting shape, so that however small the unit, what will be seen is all the little frames together as a whole shape.
What I would like to talk about is another way of creating some interest on a wall, with the use of stickers: I was once asked to decorate a children’s room on a very tight budget. The room was painted in two different shades of green (using of course, zero VOCs paint), the darker green being applied on the chimney breast. As it is often the case, the mantel piece was not in the middle of the chimney breast, and did not look good as it was unbalanced.
There was an obvious empty space that needed to be filled in order to achieve the wanted balance. So I decided to fill up this space using a sticker. The shadow of a tree was perfect and . made a lovely focal point.
If you are reluctant to use a sticker, painting a shadow instead, is a great solution but in this particular case, a sticker was cost effective, and the result pleased the client very much.
Another good thing with this sort of sticker, is that if you are getting bored of it, they normally are easy to remove, and you can replace it with another one if you’d wanted to.
Emmanuelle Lemoine
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