A New Creative Venture: Paintable Wallpaper

Yesterday I went shopping for inspiration & project ideas. I started at Home Depot, perusing the aisles to see if anything interested me. Eventually, I ended up where the contact paper was and came across something I'd wanted to try out before: paintable wallpaper. When I first discovered it months ago, I thought it was ingenious--and a perfect way for me to finally have painted walls in my apartment! But now that I'm using a neutral color scheme that maximizes the white walls, I no longer need it for that purpose. I still bought a roll of this stuff though, because it can be used to make over other items. And I do plan on using some form of paint on it, just to test it out.

The paintable wallpaper comes in various textures and was $12 for a 20.5″ x 11 yard roll. It states it’s self-pasting, but I plan on just gluing the back of it with Mod Podge to my surface. The pattern I chose is quite simple, with a texture somewhat similar to grasscloth.

I used it for my first project on the floating headboard I’m working on. I’m using a wood panel as the base and had painted this black, but once I had it on the wall, it just didn’t fit well. So I cut strips of the paintable wallpaper and glued them to the panel.

Here’s a teaser of how I used it on the headboard:

Some ideas I have for it so far:

-Cover my doors and paint them a color

-Cover floating shelves

-Add to the walls in squares but leave white

-Use on other decor accessories, such as trays, frames, mattes, tables, etc.

It’s so exciting to find something new and cheap. If you’ve used paintable wallpaper, please feel free to share your project in the comments!

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