Inspired Idea: Booking It
This is a photo of one of the walls in my office at Paper Crown. When we first moved in we had a lot of blank, white walls and a few brick ones too. I wanted to infuse the space with creativity so decided to decorate accordingly...by booking it! To add a textural yet whimsical vibe to the room, I tore out pages from an old book and layered them onto my wall in lieu of traditional wallpaper. This was an inexpensive way to not only add personality to the room, but provide wall cover as well.
Do you have a creative decor idea using non-traditional materials?
Let me know in the comments below. Or better yet, upload a photo to your profile page and link it in the comments!
XO Lauren
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I might have enjoyed this more if the papers were more intentionally placed. The random placement looks more messy, than designed. Perhaps making the pages tightly close together, evenly would have given a super textured/uniform look that's also unique?
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So I had been waiting on an opportunity to use this idea... I added a little spin to it though and rather than doing a wall, I 'booked' an old painting in my daughter's room. Check out the photo in my album: http://www.laurenconrad.com/photo/view/66024/6165/29867/1
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that reminds me of somethng i have been wanting to do to my bedroom. i have all of these beautiful pictures that i have take over the years and i want to display them all but i do not want to buy frames for all the pictures. any one have any ideas????(i was thinking about doing something with ribbon but i dont know how to start)
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I used a bunch of old CDs and glued them to one of my walls.. and than i put a fun/smart/memorable quote on each of the CDs.. its my wall of inspiration.. :)
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for my bedroom i chose to do a spin off of the traditional paint and picture idea! the color of my walls are white and lavendar; i have 3 different prints hanging up (one of audrey hepburn, one of london, and a long print with positive, influential, adorable phrases that my mom tells me everyday). i have some magazine clippings of different kinds of fashion, and in sharpie (yes, sharpie) on some of my walls, i have free-handed a variety of quotes and song lyrics (all positive and inspiring of course!)
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I redid my room this summer because I was ready for something new, and while I was reading magazines, I had begun to rip out pages that I really liked or that inspired me. I ended up narrowing down the ripped out pages and putting my favorites up on my wall! I am going to switch out some of them for new ones this summer.
http://www.laurenconrad.com/photo/view/11236/678/20976/1
http://www.laurenconrad.com/photo/view/11236/678/20975/1
http://www.laurenconrad.com/photo/view/11236/678/20977/1
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that's really clever and chic at the same time! :)
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my walls will look like this next week--midterms! they'll be covered with school work haha
http://soupforthegirlysoul.blogspot.com/
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this is cool !! i have washable crayolas, when my friends come to my bedroom they write messages on the wall or i write cool quotes, theres a tic tac toe too hahaha and its great to write things that i need to remember or my schedule too ! its really cheap funny and cute !
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They actually did this at my church, the end of last year and it is still up! It looks very cool, and it makes for a cute, trendy space!
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This is awesome! Just added to my list of ideas for how to style and decorate at home:
http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/citychic/my-favorite-home-how-to-styling-books-articles#sfa
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I have my bedroom walls in salmon pink, and bought some chalk to make a board out of one wall. I'll fill it with cooh quotes and phrases, and things I want to be reminded fo. I'll upload it to my profile when I'm done! :)
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Such a creative idea! It looks amazing and adorable:)
http://www.fashionsontop.blogspot.com
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I used Annie Sloan chalk paint, my new obsession, to stencil paint the back of white, bulit in bookcases in my den. I painted the back with a grey color, used a pale pink stencil on top, and then covered in a clear and dark wax to give it an antique french look. It looks just like wallpaper, but so much easier! Here's the link.... www.winetastegirl.com
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This is such a clever and adorable idea, Lauren! Another idea that would take a really long time is to find your favorite quotes from certain books and rip out those pages and highlighting them! It would be time consuming but just an idea!
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The website is: http://www.trendystickers.co.uk/en/home/
So nice to hear when someone else has a shared love of quotations :)
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haha this reminds me of my walls during midterms and finals
http://www.soupforthegirlysoul.blogspot.com
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At college we had to manipulate wallpaper so I created origami pinwheels out of old book pages and wallpaper and it looks like this:
http://www.laurenconrad.com/photo/view/35208/4359/20952/1 :) xxx
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