The Water Closet (W.C.) is often located in its own separate room in France. The bathroom is where you shower or bath, and the W.C. is the toilet room. Therefore when you are in France and need to go to the bathroom, one must say, "Where is the toilet?" Because if you ask for the "Bathroom" chances are you will be taken to the room where there isn't one.
My niece and I wallpapered the "toilet" room. It is the smallest room in our home.
Last Autumn, while in North Carolina visiting a friend I bought some wall paper samples in a recycling shop.
I had never wall papered before, though thankfully my niece, knew the tricks of the trade, and offered to help me.
My goal was to take the taupe/beige wallpaper samples that I had creating a patchwork, or collage on three of the toilet room walls. Juliette papered, while I glued. Juliette had the tools, I had the crazy idea. We were a good team.
Right away what I thought would be a simple project turned out to be a very time consuming one. Juliette is a perfectionist, while I am a glue and go girl. Juliette calculated, measured, cut off the excess paper, matching seam to seam. While I would have simply over-lapped the layers.
I put the glue on the paper, told Juliette where I wanted it, Juliette then fixed it to the walls with precision. She had the hard part and did it with ease.
We got along. I quickly caught on that wallpapering is more math than I care for. Fortunately, Juliette had this fancy tool that made straight guidelines on the wall. It simplified calculating.
The outcome is exactly what I hoped for! Unfortunately, the photos do not do it justice, though if you click on them, then enlarge, you can see more details. I added some old papers, which added a new twist to "writing on the walls", and gives one something to read when in there.
French Husband liked it too, teasingly he added, "Now everyone will know where we poop." Lovely thought on Valentine's isn't that!
Happy Valentine's !
What project are you up too?
Notes:
What to do with excess wallpaper?
More creative ways to use wallpaper.
Vintage wallpaper samples on my brocante site.
And more fun ideas for wallpapering.
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