Découpage - the Art of Applying Imagery
Decoupage has a long history in household design. For many centuries, paper has been used for wall and object ornamentation. It is applied with diluted pastes, may be oiled, and is commonly finished with coats of clear varnish. Simple photocopies of your favorite drawings are a wonderfully delightful and cheap form of decoupage. These designs are normally placed at frieze height or dado level. Urban Revivals can also apply cutouts from your favorite wallpapers or color photocopies.
Pairs well with tin ceilings
Images are applied and then coated with a protective finish. Artist varnish finish is required to preserve the color of your image. The image may be applied to painted walls, bare wood, painted wood, plaster, and very stiff leather.
Blends beautifully within faux aged plaster
By colorwashing or using faux aged plaster techniques on your drywall, you make it even easier to blend in, and trick the eye, by incorporating images in the wall.
More about faux aged plaster
Use Pre-pasted borders from craft stores
There are lovely borders for albums and scrapbooks, sold at craft stores. Apply these running borders to moldings, and seal them so they don't peel off. Make sure to use acrylic based non-yellowing fixatives.
Pull images from famous stories in art books
This room had a medieval feel to it, with old Germanic furniture, stippled walls, and images pulled from The Lady and the Unicorn (Flanders tapestries)
read more about stippling
Create Fabulous Chairrail using Decoupage
Chairrail can be built in three parts - with the middle section lined with the decorative paper of your choice.
Create Fabulous Chairrail using Decoupage
Here, paper from Michaels is used to line a flat molding, to the the center of a run of chairrail. This is particularly fun when you use papers appropriate for a baby nursery or game room. For example, pick a paper with teddy bears and toy trucks, with painted blue moldings top and bottom!
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