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Last month, I gleefully discussed a quick and easy trip to my Sherwin-Williams Paint store's wallpaper (book) section to review and select a wallpaper for our lower level bathroom - see
see prior blog. I was surprised by my sudden interest in wallpapers (after many years thinking they were passe) and loved the patterns I saw in the books. I ordered a paper and was told it was no longer being manufactured but that my need of 3 double-rolls could be accommodated - my total cost was a little over $300 for the three double-rolls.
A few days later, I got a call saying that this paper was not available and I would have to select another pattern. That started me on a MUCH longer journey trying to find something I liked as well as the initial paper and led to success TODAY!
Before lauding the shop (and price-point), I found in Snellville (suburb of Atlanta), I did all of the following - some more than once. During this period (about two weeks), I decided at least twice to just paint the room but couldn't quite get the desire for wallpaper out of my head.
a) returning (twice) to Sherwin-Williams to look for wallpaper options, bring home books - not finding anything I liked as well as the original selection.
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b) visiting a shop in Brookhaven called Brookhaven Home that had lots of books and a very knowledgeable owner. I was determined not to exceed the $100 per double-roll which I thought was about as much as I wanted to spend on paper and she was able to help me find some choices in this "middle range" - evidently you can go WAY higher than this. She was having a 20% off sale (off of the listed retail price), so that was helpful.
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c) visiting a shop in Buckhead called Wallpaper Plus
link to website and dealt with owner/designer Sherrie who had about 150 in-stock papers. They were well selected and I recognized a number of patterns from the books I had been perusing. Her price was $66.00 per double-roll - a price-point that seemed awfully good to me. We found several that looked promising and one that had all the right colors although it was a stripe - I hadn't been looking for and wanting a stripe. It was so perfect, however, that I bought three double-rolls and took them home feeling very successful and frugal! Unfortunately, when I got it home and reviewed it with my husband in the actual space, it was clear that the room would be too dark. So, I returned it but did buy some custom blinds from Sherrie.
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d) visiting a shop in Snellville called Wallpaper Your World
link to website. The shop is owned by designer Jack H. Poles III and he personally selects the papers which were wonderful - about 200 choices all together. He also provides a much wider range of decorating services and I highly recommend him just based on what I saw in the shop. The price - get ready for this - is
$33.00 per double-roll - I had to ask two or three times! I brought three home and selected one.
Today, with my daughter and sweet Eliza in tow, I picked up the rolls and will be handing them off to my general contractor to do the work - I am cheap enough but NOT that handy to do this myself.
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| Sample of Selections at Wallpaper Your World |
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| MY selection |
It is hard to project this into my space but I will definitely have to be a "before" and "after"!
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