photos on the wall

you guys, i stumbled upon this photo wallpaper over at a beautiful mess.

i am so obsessed with it!

they used photos from their instax instant camera, but you could just as easily do it with instagrams, and lord knows, i love instagram. and it looks super easy. they didn't print out each of those photos. they actually had pages printed of the images and then simply stapled em up to the walls. no glue,  no mess. awesome.

i don't have anywhere or any need for them at my house,

but my family's lake house, abso-freakin-lutely.

i'm calling my mom right now and pleading my case.

how fun? using years and years of lake photos from when we were small all the way up until now. fun. fun. fun. fun. fun.

i can't even.

photos are my jam.

JILL

little did i know...

this is a long winded post. sorry.

but house and garden magazine was my first love.

first magazine love.

i was in college and in love.

before domino came out.

then domino came out, still in college, and it was my second love... but more soul consuming. those 2 still rank at the very top of the magazine hoarding love list.

then they both died.

but this morning on pinterest, i saw this image and i almost died.

(not really).

i love it.

i love the hot pink tufts.

the black and white carpet.

the oatmeal walls.

that mirror.

the pale blue and white stripes.

i have decided i'm re-doing my front navy blue room and this is its inspiration:

(i've been "over" my navy walls for a couple of months now.)

so i had to find more.

i had to see the rest of this house.

luckily pinterest said jacques grange did the design bc the link was broken and i couldn't follow it back to anything. so i googled jacques grange pink tuft and came up with this post from habitually chic.

i love the internet, you only have to ask.

it's the paris apartment of prada's mathilde agostinelli,

from a long time ago when it was published in... house and garden!

(may 2006)

the colors are less saturated than the first image and i like the first image better so i'm going with it.

then i kept reading.

look at this girls room.

i posted about it along time ago, here on the blue house bc i loved those bubble gum tufts.

(june 2011)

and then this room!

i posted about it, too bc i obssess over the wallpaper.

(august 2012)

well, as it turns out.

i love the rest of her place, too.

(you know those pink walls and myself are friendly. you can find more pink walls here, here, here, here, and here.)

well, anyway.

happy monday.

it was for me. and this all happened before 6:30 this morning.

JILL

edgy egerton

i have a hallway and a bedroom that i want swathed in beautiful, patterned wallpapers.

i haven't done anything yet out of indecision.

but for the bedroom, if i could, i would choose this:

egerton by cole and sons.

in this colorway.

the first room is from an old domino, of amanda peet's home.

the second, plum syke's dining room. don't know what publication it appeared in.

i'm not going to say it...

{perp erf cerler}

sound it out ^

because the saying makes me cringe.

like a really great song that was played to death on the radio and every time you hear it you instinctively smash your hand on your car radio... switching to to something else, anything else.

that is how i feel about

a pop of color.

i hate it now.

they've over used it and pinterest is making it even worse.

but i really do love the effect.

can we just call it something else already?

what about a burst of pigment?

or an explosion of hue?

or a chunk of rainbow?

something else, anything else.

seriously, all my weirdness aside, it really does have a huge impact. take these rooms for instance...

they've totally funked up the girly and subdued colored floral wallpaper.

amanda peet added tons of tonal prints and a bright yellow lamp and red chair.

plum sykes added hot pink silk chair cushions.

and if i were to do this in my bedroom,

i would be doing something very similarly.

dying over it with hot pink.

thoughts?

JILL

for little dudes.

i'm back :)

things are better.

still don't know a ton, but husband is better and feeling like himself.

and that makes me better in return.

i'll fill you in at a later date. i want space between it and here.

but i have a really fun little boys room worked up for ya.

using my most absolute favorite wallpaper from anthro.

it's little boy-sy but not cute-sy.

just the way i like it.

if you want the sources for any of this good stuff, email me.

sorry i just got too lazy to include it.

but one more time, let's look at the best part:

this wallpaper kills me.

i also kinda wish i could afford to do one of my bathrooms in this luscious stuff.

i love it so much.

like vintage-african-safari-boys-club-glamping smooshed onto wallpaper.

hope you have a splendid thursday.

JILL

remember this one?

from domino.

images like these make me want to be totally fearless when it comes to color.

it's hard.

you know it.

i know it.

gutsy.

some people just get it, and know how to be totally fearless.

miles redd and nick olsen are 2 of those people and i think that's the reason i'm such a fan.

anyway.

husband was gone all weekend and it made me spend alot of alone time with my house.

when that happens, i start analyzing things, rearranging, re-thinking.

as we stand, i now have plans to re-paint my front room. the-so-dark-its-almost-black navy has had a really great run. but it's time.

i have plans for a new bathroom color. and art. and flooring.

i have 2 chairs in my front room that need re-upholstering. i wanna go bold. domino green-and-yellow-toile-kitchen bold.

kinda want to paint all the doors in my all white hallway something. black... mousey-gray-tan? don't know but i think it could rock.

and i want to paint my front door again.

see why i shouldn't spend that much alone time with my house?

gets expensive!

happy monday.

JILL

marble walls. one way or another.

big fan.

anyway you want it. you can have it.

the expensive stuff coming from the earth:

(the marion house book)

or you can just use it in paper form:

this one from a long time ago:

(coco +kelley)

and this one!!

from lonny's recent issue.

i love this junk. especially with the skull and the cream band of tile over the white.

perfection in my opinion.

she used the same paper i bought awhile ago and framed.

it's not expensive, around $5 a sheet. and they're pretty large.

i bet the whole bathroom couldn't have cost her more than $100 in supplies.

waaaaay cheaper than any other wallpaper.

and it looks hot.

i'm thinking you could also do this in a kitchen for a backsplash and just place a piece of plexi over it for protection. or just one wall in your kitchen or bathroom.

and if you wanted it to look even more like marble, you could cut it up into uniform squares or rectangles and lay it in a brick pattern... lots of options!

jenny komenda even used it to line the outside of a cheap plastic waste bin.

happy friday.

JILL

more papah

so i'm having a sort of love affair with wallpaper right now.

as i mentioned yesterday, if i could afford it, i'd be papering everything in sight. but with some rolls costing $150 a piece-- even my small bathroom would need 9 or 10 of them. it just doesn't make much sense when i compare it to a $35 gallon of paint.

but that doesn't mean i don't love love love this stuff.

it's not your grandma's old floral snooze anymore.

{although i could make a case for that if it was styled right!!}

i'm especially loving some great wallpaper paired with some great art.

i have lots of options for you so buckle your seat belts:

i mean. for this one, there are no words.

found here.

i wouldn't care if i stole and copied every single aspect of this room for my very own.

it's not really stealing, i like to think of it as the most sincere form of flattery :) 

here.

here.

here.

and the more the paper/art combo "doesn't go" the better in my opinion.

here's some i pulled from around the internet.

lots and lots of good good paper out there.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

because i just couldn't decide :)

my favorite wallpaper in a different colorway.

art 1.

art 2 unknown.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

paper.

art.

how's that?

love this stuff.

JILL

the look for less.

i'm back!

we didn't get internet at work until last night around 9.

turns out it wasn't our server, it was something something something (i have no idea what i'm talking about), but our entire city block was out and at&t was running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

bad visual. but it gets the job done.

they! got the job done.

finally.

try working without the internet. it's like working in the dark. honest.

back to our regularly scheduled programming.......

wallpaper is expensive.

expensive.

but you can get the same look for a little bit less!

i obsess over this room.

like obsess.

i love the black. i love how it's big girl pattern in a little girl's space.

i love how sophisticated it is for a kid but black polka dots bring it right back down a smidge. it's a little unexpected, but i've come to find that i am a #1 fan of the unexpected.

so yeah.

this might be happening in the future if i have a daughter.

more than probable, actually.

it'll happen.

{i'm screaming}

IT'S SO PRETTYYYYYYYY!!!

SO PRETTTTYYYYY.

sanderson sweet bay magnolia wallpaper.

it's a paper made in the uk. i found it online anywhere from $50-60 a roll. (not terrible, but for a room the size of above, there will be lots and lots of rolls.....)

but it's gorgeous and if you can swing it, by all means swing it!

unless you can sleuth out these 2 almost identical (actually, i like one of them better!!) for less:

(this one, i like this one better! throws a bit of pinky-lavender into the mix.)

ashford house, #YV9001.

found it online for about $30 a roll.

that's half folks. half the cost of the sanderson paper.

and it's SO PRETTY, TOOOOO!!!

hooha!

and then there's this one:

strikingly similar to sanderson, no?

york green black AD8202, magnolia vine.

found it between $90 (yikes) and $35 online, per roll.

then we come to the wildly popular, blogged about to death, cole and sons hummingbirds in aqua.

so dreamy, ethereal and whimsical-ly.

and this room below, God i love it with those bright orange/red josef albers prints.

it's good.

cole and sons, hummingbirds in aqua.

this paper will set you back between $115-150 a roll online.

but then thibaut comes up with their similar but everybit as whimsical rendition:

thibaut augustine paper, top in aqua and below in the blue coloway.

this baby will run you around $85 a roll. better than cole and sons, but still not super affordable.

 but it's just so cute!

so like i said, if you can swing it, by all means, swing it!!

i've died and gone to wallpaper heaven with that black magnolia stuff up there.

i'm smitten.

JILL

the graduate...

is one of those movies where you almost pay more attention to the setting and details than the actual plot. at least for me. i am eternally obsessed with mrs. robinson's home/style. but the sun room used for seduction cocktails below:

is fierce.

inspiration can come from anywhere. and this picture has done it for me.

when elle and i first thought about doing this blog a couple years ago, i knew i wanted to do something with this photo... whether just use it for my own house alone (which i am), or make some kind of post out of it. its too pretty not to!

fast forward a few years and i thought about it again.

and thanks to this domino bath i had saved from eons ago, it made that second task really easy!!

this bathroom has all the same elements... lush greens, the colors, black and white stripes, sleek white and a little texture. you could call it good, or

with a few additions, you could almost confuse this bathroom with the set from the graduate. maybe not, but i'm sure its as equally seducing to recent college grads.

obviously, this is the perfect excuse to use my all-time favorite wallpaper.

obviously.

and in my opinion, you could always add a few more stipes.

and some masculine leather tufting for visitors next to the tub.

so here's to you, mrs. robinson.

la la la la la la la la la.

hey hey hey.

hey hey hey.

JILL

{bath via domino, my FAVORITE martinique wallpaper, romans from pinterest, turkish bath towel from west elm, and the tufted beauty from craigslist.}