Walnut Wallpaper (+ Paper Ideas For You!)
Norinne DeGal, owner of Walnut Wallpaper out of Los Angeles, stocks papers like no other. Gone are the days of shopping papers that are 'trade-only' or amazingly country (in a bad way). If it's modern cool you're looking for, you can shop Walnut and find all the big names, from Twenty2 to Cole & Son, Allegra Hicks, Mibo, Neisha Crosland, Osborne & Little, and Mod Green Pod, to name only a few. She also stocks Palace Papers, which are my flavor of the moment, here's a peek:
On the website, you can browse papers by color, style, designer, or featured papers, which I love because if my heart screams for something in blue, I can search the aqua or blue collection and find exactly what I'm looking for. Or, if I'm craving a geometric print, I can search under geometrics. It's so easy!
Walnut is located at 7220 Beverly Blvd, Suite 201, in LA or you can check out their website and email them if you're interested in placing an order. Their email addy is contact {at} walnutwallpaper {dot} com. We need something like this in Boston - badly. We don't have a modern wallpaper boutique that isn't for the trade only...
Wallpaper tips: Purchase a few feet to mount on fore core and frame for the wall, or install it directly on the wall and frame it out with moldings. Cover a desk or table top (like a coffee table - looks gorgeous), create a room divider, closet doors, collage on a single wall using all of your favorite wallpaper scraps cut into neat squares, or paper a tiny room or a single wall in your home. It's also beautiful inside of a walk-in closet. Use it on the ceiling (see image below). Remove the shelves and paper the interior of a bookcase, put the shelves back in place, and voila! A completely new look. You can use it as contact paper for kitchen cabinets. Wallpaper possibilities are endless...
Paper only one wall to make a statement.
(images from walnut wallpaper, posie, lena, and palace papers)