Nigel Watts
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My quest for a suitable blue-green wallpaper with a chinoiserie feel has been frustrating as I have not found anything I like enough, and I am not prepared to go down the hand-painted route, both on grounds of expense and the fact that it would be OTT for an essentially middle class dwelling such as mine.
My house was built in 1840 and the temptation has been to look backwards to the Regency and late Georgian for ideas on decoration, but why not go forwards a little in time instead?
This is an authentic 1870s paper, still being printed by Watts of Westminster (no relation):
My cornice seems originally to have been more than one colour, as this photo taken before I applied white distemper shows:
I could pick out the previously darker mouldings to match the bamboo colour in the paper, and colour the rest a dusty blue perhaps? Woodwork in imitation Satinwood or Bird's Eye Maple - if I can ever find my copy of Parry's Marbling and Graining. And some pink silk curtains perhaps?
My house was built in 1840 and the temptation has been to look backwards to the Regency and late Georgian for ideas on decoration, but why not go forwards a little in time instead?
This is an authentic 1870s paper, still being printed by Watts of Westminster (no relation):
My cornice seems originally to have been more than one colour, as this photo taken before I applied white distemper shows:
I could pick out the previously darker mouldings to match the bamboo colour in the paper, and colour the rest a dusty blue perhaps? Woodwork in imitation Satinwood or Bird's Eye Maple - if I can ever find my copy of Parry's Marbling and Graining. And some pink silk curtains perhaps?