Reusing, recycling, recovering are not only current actions, but also essential to avoid wasting. Acting in this direction also gives a second life to furniture, objects and even wallpaper. If you plan to re-upholster a room in your home, don’t throw away the tapestry scraps, they can be very useful!
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If upholster his walls was common in the past, today’s interiors are more painted. Nevertheless, the trend is towards the laying of original wallpapers on a section or part of a wall. Floral, tropical, animal or seventies invaded homes and colors are bright or very dark for decorations unique that stand out. With models bearing no resemblance to the tapestries of yesteryear, it would be a shame not to divert the wallpaper of its original function!
Makeover furniture
Over time, the furniture gets old, lacks pep or simply no longer pleases you. Use scraps of wallpaper remains an interesting trick to give new life to your favorite furniture. The possibilities of transformations are almost endless. upholster the interior of a bookcase or a sideboard with niche will bring relief to the piece of furniture. But it is also possible to dress the smooth parts of a wardrobe while keeping the moldings from woodto simply customize the sides of a small sideboard or even to line the inside of the drawers for more modernity.
Attention, so that the wallpaper adheres perfectly to the surface, it is important to sand the area to be covered, then clean it well!
Delimit a space
A scrap of wallpaper is very effective in delimiting a universe in a large room. In a snapeye, it will make it possible to reorganize the spaces. A length of wallpaper can be enough to achieve this objective. Thus, it will be unnecessary to partitionthe patterns will do the job very simply by playing on the contrasts, colors, patterns. Thus, it will be easier to install a corner office or library in a living room or to delimit two sleeping areas in a large bedroom which must accommodate two children.
Tip: the fact of affixing a single strip will also make it possible not to overload a room!
Divert scraps of wallpaper into a chalkboard
The wallpaper can turn into an artistic piece and act as a picture. Current framed motifs can find their place on a painted wall facing an upholstered panel for a reminder touch.
Several solutions are available to you :
- Choose an area of the wallpaper the size of a framecut it out and place it in the coaster.
- Place your previously cut scrap of wallpaper between the two horizontal elements of a poster holder.
- Paste it paper painted directly on the wall and frame it with wooden moldings painted in the same tone as the decor.
Dress a door or a staircase
A fall of wallpaper on a gate can give insight into the decoration existing in a room.
Be careful, covering all the doors of the same sleeping area and with different wallpaper can be excessive and give an impression of heaviness!
A sliding door or at brick partition covered with a scrap of wallpaper can bring originality to a room.
Finally you can to recycle your scraps of wallpaper by decorating the risers of a staircase with strips of paper cut to the desired size. This decorative idea will bring pep to a stairs a bit vintage!
Reuse for daily life
The use of scrap wallpaper is endless! Do not hesitate to keep them to securely wrap a gift, cover a storage box or hangers in wood. A remnant of tapestry can also turn into a decoration like a pretty garland or a mobile for newborn.
The pieces of wallpaper can also be affixed to an old lampshade, giving a second life to a file of chaircover tin cans to turn them into pretty jars, be cut into geometric shapes then glued in a child’s room to decorate it… Room for ideas!
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