I just got this little update sent into me and I wanted to share it with you. I like this feature especially because it is a temporary quick fix that can be done in an apartment or, if you can’t splurge on the whole deal, but need a lift. Check out what Liz of The Chronology of Him and Me did to update her rental kitchen:
and Its spring break. We are not laying on a beach.
However, I am trying my best to distract myself and refrain from wallowing in vacationless-spring-break-self-pity by taking advantage of these nights sans night class and get some things done in our house that I can’t do when my time is devoted to staring at a textbook.
We live in a little farm style house. We LOVE it. However, the home is not ours and the overwhelming majority of walls in the house are a lovely shade of stark white. As a result, I am constantly looking for landlord approved ways to make the place interesting when we can’t paint, re-do, or alter anything.
So…in one of my many google-quests for removable/reversible decorating ideas for our house, I discovered the directions for homemade fabric wallpaper, so I tried it.
Here is what you need:
-Lightweight fabric
-Liquid Starch
-Sponge or Paint Roller
-Container to pour starch into
-Not pictured: Patient husband who allows you to follow through on your harebrained decorating schemes
dip your sponge in it, then start wiping the walls with it.
To remove, all you have to do is soak the fabric with water and it will peel off.
After:
Happy Spring Break/Home-Makeover-No-Vacation-Distraction-Week to you and yours.
Hope its a great one!
AND this idea, could work anywhere…
>What an amazing idea! I love how it looks.
>I love this idea… I've seen it before, but never considered it as a kitchen backsplash. I might have to consider doing this!
>Uau! The result is so beautiful! Congratulations for the criativity!
>i am SO doing this! that looks absolutely fantastic, and (as a renter) i need non-permanent solutions. brilliant. and oh, so cute.
>Neat idea- but is it easy to keep clean? How would you clean it?
>Oh wow. Why isn't this everywhere? I am loving this idea and I actually think fabric is so much more interesting than wallpaper. Clever, clever, clever.
Pam
>That is so great looking. Just recently I was looking for liquid starch and could not find it anywhere. I finally emailed the company and they told me where to find it. You use to be able to get it anywhere! Using liquid starch, you can change your mind whenever you like! I like your method better than mine. I actually put the fabric right in the starch rung it out and put it on the wall…..what a mess!
Carol
>Great Job! I have heard of this before but haven't done it yet. Just the inspiration I need to get started!! God bless
Kelly
http://www.learninglandhomeschool.blogspot.com
>BRILLIANT!
>Beautiful! We have another house we're fixing up and the kitchen is similar to that. I've been debating what to do and now might try it! So neat!
Looks great. How do you keep the edges of the fabric from fraying? Do you overlap them? or butt them together? What about in the corners?
Would this same process make fabric stick to glass and still be removable?
Not sure, but I have seen it done on pieces of wood furniture, so it wouldn’t hurt to try!
This looks amazing! But I have the same question as post #11 – what do you do with the edges??
Hey Ladies, This was a guest feature, so I am not totally sure what she did. But I am thinking that if you folded the edge slightly just making sure that is was starched in and out that would give you a nice clean edge!
Looks great! Would this work on a refrigerator?
I really like this idea, but do you think that it would work with a lace type fabric?
Also, where would i find the liquid startch?