A zoo on my wall?

Any takers for a pink elephant? Or, a green monkey? Or may be a couple of birds on your wall? Made out of vintage wallpaper.

Oh wait! I can't count sooo many raised hands at once!

Inke Heiland, the artist and designer of these wall decals lives in the Netherlands. She started with wildlife wallpaper for her son's room, and was so impressed with the result that she ventured into a many more such decals! I can so imagine them in a kid's room and maybe a flock of birds in other rooms!

Above are also available in the shape of tree, lamps, chair, door and...click here to see for yourself!

And I, can't help, looking at walls...Wall Art Part Deux

Continuing on walls...

One trend which is picking up again (yes, even in India) is that of wallpapers. I am personally not big on wallpapers; I like them more on a feature wall, or as a diagonal/vertical strip. Presenting some latest wallpaper designs from Designer's Guild (UK). The F&F store in Delhi and Gurgaon apparently stocks products from Designer's guild too:

And ofcourse, the other option with walls is cladding them with stone or brick:

Images: www.pointclickhome.com and www.islandstone.com

And even mud (traditional rural house building material becomes 'in' now!)

Image: http://www.makeitmudbricks.com.au/

Other interesting wall installations found on http://www.2modern.com/




DIY - I guess the above effect can also be achieved with some ingenuity using plaster of paris (?) :-)



There are so many other wall finishes - wall decals, faux wall finishes, fabric coverings, wall mural art etc...shall cover all of above some time later

Color me tender, color me true...Wall Art Part I

As I gradually do up my home (trust me, it does take time for some one as 'selective' as I am- that's what I call myself, but others might just call it being in the state of 'can't ever make up her mind!'), I become fascinated with one aspect of interiors from time to time. My current mind space occupier are Walls - colored walls, patterned walls, textured wall, wall papered walls, rocky walls - you name it, I have visualized it!

While there is an amazing variety of options available in the US and UK, I did some research for what is available in India. In this post, I will cover some interesting options provided by Asian Paints , and also what I will do MYSELF [:-D] to one of our master bedroom walls

First, some Elvis Presley for walls by aforementioned paints:

Quite nice...though I wonder how long can one live with a dominant wall color...in any case, there is no harm trying!

Now, what I want to do MYSELF...

1. Pick up a wall and color it in ochre- which along with sounding quite exotic, looks somewhat like the color tick marked in the shade card below:

Pic Courtesy: http://www.apaints.com/

2. The paint would be textured and would look something like this:

3. Now, pick up a nice wooden handblock (see pic below):

Pic courtesy: http://www.eastofhere.co.uk/

4. Some of the maaany designs available in handblocks are given below:

Pic courtesy: http://www.craftrevival.org/ (ask me why I put the link before the image and spoiled the consistency of this post...^&*@# formatting trouble)

5. Dip the handblock in deep cooper color and run amok printing on the ochre textured wall (not run amok exactly - but do some thinking around spacing the prints out, symmetry etc)

6. And voila! the wall that I did MYSELF...ahem, will do MYSELF will be ready! :-)

Well, there will be a day in the near future when I post the pic of the finished wall!

More to come on walls in Part Deux of Wall Art...