Wallpaper...where to begin?
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Anonymous
| I would like to use a wall paper in our powder room...I see awesome pix online, but I'm not sure where to start. Where do you buy nice wall paper? Is this a pricey endeavor?? I'm a bit lost on this one...any insight is helpful. |
Anonymous
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The Monarch paint store just south of Chevy Chase Circle. Helpful staff, and they can probably point you to a paper hanger.
The hardest part is that there's SO MUCH to choose from. http://www.monarchpaintdc.com I see that they have several stores. |
Anonymous
| On the price issue, you'll find there's a wide range. As I recall the paper hanger wasn't outrageous, similar to a good painter. |
Anonymous
| When you find a wallpaper you like, you will also find a good paper hanger through a good paint store. If you are in Virginia, the Potomac Paint Stires in Alexandria, Arlington and Vienna have a good selection of paper and helpful staff. Same for the Color wheel in McLean |
Anonymous
| Please don't |
Anonymous
Spoken from a combination of ignorance and conventionality. |
Anonymous
Today's wallpaper is not your grandmas. A powder room is the perfect place for wallpaper. Allows others with taste to move beyond Behr "Shining Star." |
Anonymous
and taupe. Yuck. |
Anonymous
| Difficult to clean wallpaper with bathroom stains. |
Anonymous
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Pee Pee
It is a powder room not a bathroom |
Anonymous
Actually, most wallpaper cleans better than paint. Presumably you wouldn't put an uncoated wallpaper in a bathroom. Probably not a powder room either. |
Anonymous
| Don't do it! |
Anonymous
Someone has watched too much HGTV. 
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Anonymous
I have to agree. Don't. It's always the first thing to take down after purchasing a home, and to be honest, what you THINK is in style one year is out the next. Paint is easy to change; wallpaper isn't. It's tacky, tacky, tacky. |
Anonymous
| If I use it in my otherwise tastefully furnished and decorated home, say in the foyer, will I be completely tacky or will only my foyer be tacky? |