DRAWING ON THE WALLS

I LOVE WALLPAPER. Especially with metallic patterns. But living in an apartment makes this a forbidden love, unless I want to go through the pain and heartbreak of removing the paper at move-out time. Not to mention the fact that beautiful wallpaper is just expensive. I've seen some cool removable options from tempaperdesigns.com and whatisblik.com, but the price was still a bit steep for me.

So I decided draw on the walls with Sharpies.

THE INSPIRATION:

L-to-R:
Metallic gold wallpaper seen on emilyhenderson.com
Gold sharpie wall seen on littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com

THE PROJECT:

I bought a 12-count box of gold Sharpies on Amazon for about 12 bucks. That was the total cost of this project, folks! And I only used 9 of them.

I made a stencil of a circle pattern that I like. It was also important to me that I chose a very forgiving pattern to minimize the effect of the inevitable mistakes I would make. I wanted the stencil to be pretty sturdy, so I ended up making it out of an old plastic binder. I have this cool Silhouette craft cutter, which made this process easy, but you can certainly cut a stencil by hand.

I just traced the pattern across my 11x8ft wall.

And a couple LOTRs and one While You Were Sleeping later...

I'll be sad when we have to move and I have to paint over it.