Do or Don’t: Striped Walls
I was browsing around on the always-inspirational ElleDecor.com, and I came across their feature on striped wall treatments. I am so tired of years of apartment-white walls; bold walls look so refreshing to me!
These vivid Alice in Wonderland-esque orange-and-pink stripes are magically overpowering. This look is found on the bedroom-corridor walls of designer Muriel Brandolini’s Victorian weekend house in Southampton, NY. It’s intense to say the least.
I like the idea of stripes used in the bathroom, but the horizontal black and white stripes are a bit too prison uniform for me. I think I would have like this in a color better.
I love the wide earth-tone stripes used in this Manhattan apartment. Also, I think I prefer wide stripes, like these, to thinner ones.
Although this is a little too precious for my taste, I do like this lilac-and-cream striped look with the eclectic array of art. Also, this is an example of vertical stripes, which I like when the stripes are large, like they are here.
So what do you think? Would you do stripes in your home?
Image Source: Elle Decor
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hate striped walls….gives me a headache. and I think they’d limit how the room can be decorated. Solid colors are great.
Aw, I love them!
I think stripes really improve the looks of a room, it gives it a great effect, even if you only do one wall. It really gets better when you use this new painting tool called the U-Stripe It & Design Tool. If you haven’t already check this tool out at http://www.ustripeit.com It was invented by a painter who hated striping the old way with all those pencil marks, plum lines, etc.
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