The Weekly Croissant: The Joys of Home

and Wallpaper for Art Hoes

Hello Pastry Lovers,

In honor of Odelle’s joyful homecoming, The Croissant will once again be moonlighting as an interior design blog. I spent January-March frantically renovating the kitchen and nursery (shown below, before and after Odelle’s homecoming). The faux Oxford Pendant was a 3 AM purchase after her second surgery, oops!

When I found myself with an unexpected 4th trimester of nesting, I channeled my anxiety and fear into tackling the dark and chaotic hallway.

As I was working on this project, I came up with some good hacks for making the absolute most of wallpaper. You may have heard of interior design “on a budget,” but have you heard of interior design with NO budget? Of course I have to spend some money but it’s kind of, “how can I skim a hundred here and a hundred there out of the bank account without causing disaster, and how can I spend the absolute least amount of money possible?” Here’s my interior design tips for scroungy art hoes with not a whole lot of money to spare.

Nice wallpaper is EXPENSIVE, surprisingly so. I often shop in FB Marketplace for wallpaper (which was the case in this instance). You can get a much better price, but of course, you don’t have a say in the quantity of a pattern available

. I fell in love with this watercolor/floral paper, which was on offer out in the suburbs for $200 (probably would have been around $600 new). It was JUST exactly enough square footage to cover my project. If you want to do exact pattern matching you need a lot of extra to cut off on the ends.

Here’s a few ideas I used to make my unmatched patterns blend in.

1. Start in the most visible part of the wall with the largest unbroken space, and use full matching sheets, cutting off the excess.

2. Use those excess chunks above doorways and in smaller spaces where the wall is broken anyway, and put the unmatching line in the middle of the doorway so your eyes don’t catch it

3. When you get to the final spots that need to be filled in, you can cut around pieces of the pattern so you don’t have straight lines of unmatched patterns… In my case I cut out individual flowers within the pattern and stuck them over holes!

   

   

Yours in carbs,

Rachel