Pink Saturday & Faux Leather

Welcome to Pink Saturday 

today I am sharing some decorating

work I have been doing along with my PS post  

 For PS I wanted to share this cute pink heart letter holder

and the sweet pink of my granddaughter (who is now a teen)

I hope you will stick around for

the stairwell tour.

Some before pictures

Note the empty nook.

A look from the top of the stairs in my studio.

As you can see nothing had been done.  I did finish the mudding

and put a coat of primer on the walls.  (after the pictures, of course)

Missy Moew had to get in on the act.

After the priming I went into where my stash of 

brown grocery bags are taking up way to much space.

I think this is what really lit my fire on getting this done,

I want my laundry room back.

Kirk and I had a bag ripping and crumpling party.

We tore assorted sized from the bags and

crumpled them up.
So far we have done this 3 times.  Grin.

The sizes ranged from larger then a dinner plate to about 6 to 8 inches

and we kept straight edges on some for going against moldings

Next, I ironed the paper flat, much easier to 

work with and not trying to flatten them out at the wall.
Don't iron the wrinkles out, just flatten them.

I used this wallpaper glue, it worked really well

I will have used 3 gallons by time the room is done.

I also used a 4 inch paint brush to spread the paste,

first on the wall, stuck the paper on and them more paste over the top.

The paint brush also worked well from smoothing out the paper

and getting air bubbles out.

Test patches in a hidden spot.  Just in case this

turned out to be a bad idea......which it didn't.

I discovered a few things as I worked on the walls

1.  This is a labor of love.

2.  Don't over work the bags once they are on the wall.

As you can see in the picture below they look

horrible, but what happens is they stretch 

with the moisture.  They will shrink back.

3.  DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO CUT SLITS IN ANY BUBBLES!

Ask me how I know.

Again the paper shrinks back when it dries, thus leaving gaps where the cuts are.

I know this picture looks really bad, but again this will not be the final

outcome, this is very wet.  I work with is a bit, moving (lifting) and

smoothing once or twice, but then I stop because it just wrinkles again.

Here is how it looks after it dries, 

On the lower half of this picture you can see where

I began adding glaze to the wall, it really 

makes the look.

More to come on that part.

Kirk made the bookcase for that nook I told you to remember.

And I filled it up with books that have been

in boxes since we moved here 5 years ago

Also done now are the stairs themselves

we did not bother to finish them before.

This was a 2 day process, but the results are beautiful.

That is it for this time.

Still to go, finish the walls, glaze them, trim things out

and add handrail and decorate.

Thank you for stopping by, please leave a message.

Have a Happy Pink Saturday and 

pop on over to How Sweet the Sound for 

many wonderful Pinks