I am a fan of bright colors. I'm also a fan of decorating rooms. I'm not a fan of painting or the thought of painting a mural that will one day be covered by another layer of paint, or worse... feeling guilty and not covering it even though trends have moved on!
Nate and I took a brief shopping trip to Five Below, a "finer" dollar store with real, usable items often found in other stores, but at prices of $1-$5. They had calendars on sale for $3 as it was already mid-January. One of the calendars was a "wall art calendar" of birds and a vintage cage. I figured for three dollars we could spruce up a well-scuffed paint job in our massage storage room-slash-reading room between the hall and the office.
I went with a "birds bursting out of the cage" theme and allowed the giant, removable stickers to flow across the wall, anchoring the design with the birdcage, which looks like it is perched neatly on top of a side organizer unit where we keep our Scentsy air freshener lamp. I debated actually putting up the paper calendar pages, but it went so nicely with the birdcage, I figured, "Why not?" After twelve months, it will still look nice.
Overall we enjoy the effect. It's very bright and splashy, and we thought it was a very nice addition to an otherwise boring and overlooked room. I might actually sit and read here now!
Have you used wall art? Painted murals? Removable pressure-based vinyl art? Wall stickers? I'd be interested to hear your experiences.
Nate and I took a brief shopping trip to Five Below, a "finer" dollar store with real, usable items often found in other stores, but at prices of $1-$5. They had calendars on sale for $3 as it was already mid-January. One of the calendars was a "wall art calendar" of birds and a vintage cage. I figured for three dollars we could spruce up a well-scuffed paint job in our massage storage room-slash-reading room between the hall and the office.
I went with a "birds bursting out of the cage" theme and allowed the giant, removable stickers to flow across the wall, anchoring the design with the birdcage, which looks like it is perched neatly on top of a side organizer unit where we keep our Scentsy air freshener lamp. I debated actually putting up the paper calendar pages, but it went so nicely with the birdcage, I figured, "Why not?" After twelve months, it will still look nice.
Overall we enjoy the effect. It's very bright and splashy, and we thought it was a very nice addition to an otherwise boring and overlooked room. I might actually sit and read here now!
Have you used wall art? Painted murals? Removable pressure-based vinyl art? Wall stickers? I'd be interested to hear your experiences.
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