Damask wallpaper in my closet

It rained and hailed all weekend in San Diego.  When the weather is like that I stay home.  Why?  Because San Diegans are the worst drivers when it rains {not me of course} and it is best to stay off the roads.  So I pulled out a rainy day project.  Wallpapering my closet.  Yeah, that’s on everyone’s list right?

I bought the wallpaper back in November from One Kings Lane

It is by Kenneth James, and of course damask. The pattern is called Mallory, and the color is mist.  One Kings Lane doesn’t have it any longer, but I see that it is still available on line at other retailers.  I usually call in the pros when ever I need wallpaper installed.  I am not a good at wallpapering, I can’t cut a straight line and getting the seams not to pull apart is always a difficult task.  But since I only had two small walls to do, and the walls are smooth, I figured I could do it myself.

This is one of the two walls that I put the wallpaper on.  I know this isn’t your average closet, believe me, I feel very lucky to have a closet like this.

There are two doors in my closet, so the other wall is identical to this one.

{These pictures don’t show the whole closet…spring cleaning is badly needed in there, so once I get that done I can show you the whole area}

These are the supplies I used 

One double roll of wallpaper, wallpaper paste, an exacto knife and brushes.

The ceilings are tall, which meant me spending a lot of time on a ladder to get this job done.  Getting around that motion sensor without disconnecting the hard wiring was challenging to say the least

I did an ok job on the trimming.  I tell you, I now appreciate every strip of wallpaper I have ever paid someone to put up for me, it is not an easy job.  It takes skills that I don’t have.  But for my closet, it is good enough.  This wallpaper was easy to work with and very forgiving, that helped a lot.

Here is how the other wall turned out

I plan on adding some hanging light fixtures in my closet.  The ceilings are so tall I have a lot of shadowing from the can lights  {plus it will glam it up a notch} I have to say, I love, love the wallpaper.  I can’t put my finger on it as to why it has made such a difference, even my husband keeps remarking how beautiful it is, which coming from a guy is huge!  The room feels boutique like, more warming than the plain white walls, I should of done this years ago.

I also want to give a  huge thank you to the bloggers who featured my work in the last couple of weeks. I am always so honored when another blogger, big or small features my projects.  Having a linky party is a lot of work, and we all love them don’t we?   I spend hours going through links even if I don’t link up.  It is a great way to see what other cre8tive things people have come up with.  So without further ado here they are  Feel free to click on the the blog title to go to their sites, you won’t be disappointed.

Featured my “never get too busy” sign

Karen at Redoux featured my headboard

Marian featured my head board.  AND said some really sweet things about me…awe love her!

Jami from Freckled Laundry featured my headboard and encouraged me to do a post about the settee

Kate at Centsational Girl included my headboard in her BOTB series

Sweet Brittany at brittany makes wrote a whole post on how I inspired her to make her own headboard

Thank you to all of you for sharing my projects, and pinning them.  I really appreciate it!