5 Creative Uses for Wallpaper

Artwork

Frame a section of wallpaper for a customized piece of artwork.  Group a few framed pieces in complementary colors and textures for a mini-art gallery in your home.

Drawers and Cabinets

Use Wallpaper to line the inside or outside of your drawers and/ or cabinets for a splash of color in an unexpected fashion.

Headboard

Want to update your headboard?  Cover the old headboard with wallpaper that has an eye-catching pattern and color scheme.  Or, ditch the headboard altogether and create an interesting shape with the wallpaper itself on the wall.

Light Fixtures

Extra wallpaper scraps are good for adding an extra “pop” to the light fixtures in your home.  Use it to cover light switch plates or to cover an old, tired lamp shade.

Walls

Use wallpaper to accent one wall within a room, or cover the whole room with a simple pattern to make a bold statement.  Another way to use wallpaper uniquely in a room is by dividing the room in half length-wise and painting the top portion a solid, neutral color, add a chair –rail and wall paper the bottom half with a bold pattern.

There are many creative ways to use wallpaper in your home, just grab a great design wallpaper with a “pop” of color and use your imagination to create the perfect paper project in your home.

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ANIMAL PRINTS GALORE--A DAY AT THE ZOO

Animal prints are BIG and what better way to demonstrate animal print borders, than by photographing them in their natural habitat at the Cleveland Zoo.  Following is a photo album of some of our favorite animal print borders with some of our favorite models and our favorite animals.  The Cleveland Zoo just opened a special new Elephant Crossing exhibit that was a great starting off point for our On The Wild Side feature.  From there it was on to the monkeys, fish, turtles, cheetahs and giraffes.  Alas, no zebras in this photo album, but we do have zebra border, zebra wallpaper and cheetah/leopard print border and wallpaper (in-stock) as well.

Elephants Galore

And now to the cheetahs

Let's hear it for the fishes and frogs

Giraffes on High

GAME ON--A DAY AT THE ZOO

Whether big or little, striped or spotted, kind or not

Animals make you smile whether you are old or a tot

Their bodies are graceful and their faces benign

And manage to rise above the worst of human malign

Roaming the mysterious wild in a state of free

They're engaging as can be when hanging from a tree

Or when at the zoo they are well kept and fed

'Tis not such a bad life so it be said

Bringing joy and goodwill to all who will view

Causing even the most jaded human to utter a coo

U.S. Wallcovering Launches e-commerce Site

For the Lovc of Wallpaper.com Goes Live

U.S. Wallcovering has been in business for over a century and has continued to adhere to the principles originally promoted by its founder,  Abraham Levine--provide the best quality merchandise, offer the best value and support it all with the best customer service.  As U.S. Wallcovering made changes, those changes were always tied to what customers were asking for.  And, now, customers are asking for alternative shopping options.  U.S. Wallcovering has listened and we have just launched an e-commerce site to support our basic store at www.uswallcoveringonline.com.  The new store can be reached at http://www.fortheloveofwallpaper.com.  We still have a ways to go in terms of site enhancement and product category completion but it is a start. We welcome your feedback.

Lapland Here I Come

In my quest to seek out unique wallpaper patterns from around the world I am off to Lapland to check out the wallpaper offerings north of the Arctic Circle.  Might be hard to wallpaper a reindeer-hide tent but wallpaper would be a nice antidote for a landscape covered in white for much of the year.  I am told they are experiencing one of the coldest winter's in recent memory with average temperatures hovering around zero. There is a special Winter Market held every year for the past 400 years that draws people from around the world to delight in the beautiful landscape, shop for Sami people crafts, listen to lectures and view exhibitions, sample some reindeer meat, ride a dogsled, stay in an Ice Hotel and otherwise enjoy the special charm of Lapland in Winter.  I promise to share some of my white on white photos when I return.  While I am running about in my Michelin-man down coat this blog will be vacationing as well for two weeks.  When we come back it is off to the zoo snap some of those animal print patterns next to the real thing.

In the meantime, stay warm.

Mela

Lapland in Winter

The cold north beckons

With snow and ice I reckons

And temperatures that define cold

You have to be of a certain mold

To see beyond the frost and limited sun

This is not a place to sit on you bun

But rather a land where one is in constant motion

In order to prevent frostbite if one had such a notion

So, off I go loaded with objects of goose down

Enough to keep any a frozen face from a frown

Animal Kingdom

Photo Credit Don Iannone Photography

Well, I promised a picture from the zoo displaying some animal print wallpapers and borders alongside the real deal and that zoo picture will be coming up soon but this photo was just Too Good.  Many thanks to Don Iannone, a fabulous photographer, for capturing this image of a coyote on a frozen Lake Erie in Bratenahl, OH.  Pretty impressive.  Just 10 minutes from downtown Cleveland, Bratenahl also boasts deer and red fox and an interesting array of migratory birds.  Check out the Bratenahl website at http://www.bratenahlplace.com

Still on the animal theme,  we have received a number of requests recently for wallcoverings featuring horses.  There are many wallpaper and border patterns featuring horses of all sizes and activity from galloping stallions to prancing foals but one of my favorites is a set of horse decals that can be affixed to any surface and are totally removable and changeable.  The picture featured below is of decals installed on a child's playroom window in Bethesda, MD and the five year old little girl applied the images herself.  How easy is that.

Enjoy what winter has to offer and dream of spring.

Animal Kingdom

It's that time of year for snow and ice

Wouldn't a ride on a horse be nice

A frozen tundra on Lake Erie

After a few weeks it makes one dreary

A roving coyote can spice up the white

But beware, he may choose to fight

A camera lens is a safe bet

To ensure his appetite you do not whet