Creative Ideas for using up expensive wallpaper, please

If you want to be creative with samples, you can go onto the John Lewis website and order posh paper samples for free. They come direct ftom the manufacturer. The size is sort of A4.

Morris & Co Tena Ladies.
Now there’s a thought 🤔

HaHa that made me laugh, hadn't thought of those kind of drawers! Bit scratchy!!!

I would make trays by decoupaging some of the left over paper, or you could line the inside of cupboards and drawers

I think lining your drawers might make you walk funny though, don’t you? .

Sure are M & S flowers! 💐

I would make trays by decoupaging some of the left over paper, or you could line the inside of cupboards and drawers.

There is a shop I love online that prints wallpaper to order so you can get exactly the right quantity and you never get any waste. They have so many amazing designs and you can buy a sample , which is how I make my decoupage trays.

That bed looks sooo comfy!

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My tissue box

Joseanne I recognise those flowers! They are M&S aren’t they?
My dad has sent them to me three
times in the past.

Joseanne

Or cover the dog!

It’s getting her to stand still long enough…..maybe I should do it now?

Or cover the dog!

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Lovely ideas.

Some people are just boring unimaginative and turn it into pictures!

So which WM pattern is it @ Noola ?

I’ve just remembered that I had a nest of 3 small mahogany tables with leather tops, covered by glass - very 80’s - but I put wallpaper over the leather, holding it in place with the glass and they did look good, if I say so myself.

That is lovely!
I decoupaged a tissue box with cuttings from some wallpaper.
I’ll take a photo later

Ooooh, that's pretty, namsnanny!

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On a more helpful note, I've covered a dressing table and chest of drawers with wallpaper to match one of our bedroom walls (decoupage). The drawers were a bit fiddly though.

Cover exercise books! (Anyone remember doing that?)
My mum used to say the teachers were just nosey to see what type of house you came from!

If there is only a very little, lining drawers is a simple idea.
Especially chest of drawers in bedroom, for instance.

DD1 has one kitchen wall papered in a giant bee paper. There was enough left to do a wall in the downstairs loo.

Love the wallpapers fanny.

I love William Morris but dh, having no taste, isn't keen. The rest of the house is quite plain.

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These are the ones that I’ve had before and the one in my kitchen / dining room

Here it is

Oh kitty I bet your house is absolutely gorgeous.
That’s the paper I’ve got in my living room

We have William Morris in the hall and have saved the left over paper for the inevitable patching. We have lots of dgc and are not daft.

I use good wallpaper for presents people always love beautiful paper on presents.