To clarify: I'm happy to be seated against wild, psychedelic, Florence Broadhurst style backdrops at the hairdressers, or restaurants, but at home I prefer my walls to be a bit less - well, rowdy.
Enter those design-savvy Kiwis at Resene, with a deliciously retro, super smart collection of textured papers, ready to be painted over with the feature colour of your choice. Feature walls: did they ever go out of style? If so, I'm glad they're back. Here at the Eumundi House there's four, which sounds a little greedy, but they are spread out: two upstairs, one downstairs, one in the studio. And all are deep and moody in colour, a counterfoil to the bright sub-tropical light that streams through louvred glass.
If you wait, and listen, a space reveals what colour it should be. Those freshly hung chevrons were emitting a palpable 70s vibe: "Mustard", they reverbed, "Paint us mustard". So for the deepest, most satisfying, colour-saturated shade, I turned - as always - to Porter's Paints. Porter's Paints are pots of pigment perfection.
And what, you may be asking, is that silvery, snakelike object in closeup? Why, it's an almost vintage Phil Ward design, circa 1985.
Yep - give him a tripod, a satellite dish, and he's off and wiring.
FAQs
Wallpaper: Uselessly, I have forgotten the pattern name. Resene do, however, have a brilliant New Zealand site, with an almost too good selection of colour, pattern and texture. (Here on the Sunshine Coast, head straight to the wonderful people at Paint City Coolum.)
Paint: Sombrero in eggshell acrylic from the incomparable Porter's Paints. (Ditto Paint City Coolum.)
Hanging wallpaper: Use the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy approach: Don't Panic!
Painting textured wallpaper: Use a long napped roller. Load with plenty of paint. Roll on in zigzag pattern first, to work into the grooves, then roll off from top to bottom.
Resene have all the DIY details you need, plus videos, on their site.
Enter those design-savvy Kiwis at Resene, with a deliciously retro, super smart collection of textured papers, ready to be painted over with the feature colour of your choice. Feature walls: did they ever go out of style? If so, I'm glad they're back. Here at the Eumundi House there's four, which sounds a little greedy, but they are spread out: two upstairs, one downstairs, one in the studio. And all are deep and moody in colour, a counterfoil to the bright sub-tropical light that streams through louvred glass.
If you wait, and listen, a space reveals what colour it should be. Those freshly hung chevrons were emitting a palpable 70s vibe: "Mustard", they reverbed, "Paint us mustard". So for the deepest, most satisfying, colour-saturated shade, I turned - as always - to Porter's Paints. Porter's Paints are pots of pigment perfection.
And what, you may be asking, is that silvery, snakelike object in closeup? Why, it's an almost vintage Phil Ward design, circa 1985.
Yep - give him a tripod, a satellite dish, and he's off and wiring.
FAQs
Wallpaper: Uselessly, I have forgotten the pattern name. Resene do, however, have a brilliant New Zealand site, with an almost too good selection of colour, pattern and texture. (Here on the Sunshine Coast, head straight to the wonderful people at Paint City Coolum.)
Paint: Sombrero in eggshell acrylic from the incomparable Porter's Paints. (Ditto Paint City Coolum.)
Hanging wallpaper: Use the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy approach: Don't Panic!
Painting textured wallpaper: Use a long napped roller. Load with plenty of paint. Roll on in zigzag pattern first, to work into the grooves, then roll off from top to bottom.
Resene have all the DIY details you need, plus videos, on their site.
3 comments:
splendid paper. http://assemblage.typepad.com is my latest inspiration.
Just checked it out. Love those gauzy, elegant little scarves.
she's done some cool sewing and knitting too with a brutalist aesthetic, which is easier to see on her flickr site. I've done Holl by her, a jumper in grey and I've got the pattern for Zaha, all architecturally inspired. (i.e. the titles are architects) My latest project is an origami cardigan I found on ravelry. (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/origami-cardigan)
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