12/16/2023 0 Comments Rumpus room ideas![]() The paper arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been dying waiting for our painter/paperer friend to get around to the dining room and put it up so I could see. It’s the rectangle pattern in our house, just going in the other direction!!!!! It was perfect - a not-too-dark gray to complement the stone wall in the living room, with a little bit of shine to give a nod to the original gold foil and velvet wallpaper. When I had just about given up, I did a Google search (and I wish I could remember the word combo I used) that pulled up an image that stopped me in my tracks. Jack and I tore apart every wallpaper book in Sherwin-Williams, with no luck - everything we found was too wacky, or too boring, or too dark (it’s amazing how much dark charcoal wallpaper is out there)… and I Googled like there was no tomorrow, using every possible search combination I could think of: “mid-century gray wallpaper”, “gray foil modern wallpaper”, you get the idea. Thus began a weeks-long search for the perfect dining room wallpaper, and it’s amazing that 2 walls’ worth of material could drive me so crazy. ![]() I didn’t think I could bring myself to put something that wacky on the dining room walls, but it would be great to choose a design that was a nod to the original. OMG, gold foil and velvet flocked wallpaper! Just as crazy as the wallpaper in the bathrooms. I felt like I was getting pulled in a bunch of directions - I really wanted something in a medium gray, to tie in with the stone wall that’s caddy-corner across the open living room…īut then, when we were replacing the thermostat on the dining room wall, we uncovered a sliver of the original wallpaper underneath the unit: As we were choosing wallpaper for the different rooms in the house, one thing that was completely stressing me out was the dining room. So much fun! Which brings me to a little sneak peek we’ll give of one of the design choices that we made ourselves. Like the back door:Īnd it was even used in the structure of a privacy screen in the powder room: Is there a name for this pattern? I’ve seen it every once on a while in mid-century design, and I have no idea if it’s actually called something other than “rectangles with lines coming out of the sides”.Īnyway, it’s in several other places in the house, too. You can see it best in the rumpus room built-ins: And one of my favorite design elements they used is, for lack of a better term, rectangles with lines coming out of each side. It really pulls the house together and makes everything a cohesive whole. ![]() Being the design geek of the relationship, I love how certain colors, fixtures, textures, etc are pulled through from room to room. When this house was rebuilt in 1957, the owners were really purposeful in every design element they chose for the renovation. So it’s time for a long-overdue update, with a feature of the house we’ve been meaning to highlight for a while. It’s a beautiful Sunday here at Biohazard Manor.* “Sundays with Sinatra” is on the hi-fi, filling the house with music… coffee is brewed, and Jack is cooking up a whole bunch o’ bacon.
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