Victoria Larsen

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A simple design creates such drama!

Using a design as wallpaper

Mano Venkatraman is quite the artist and has been featured on our website before and included in art contests on the HouseOfFaux.com website.

Mano is also obviously a decorating enthusiast as you can tell by this beautiful wall and doorway done with single stencils.

Though the stencil designs featured on the door and above the wall do not belong to us, the picture shows how you can use elongated designs such as our Raised Plaster Oblong Panel or any of our Raised Plaster Border Stencils to create the same look.

Any singular stencil design can be repeated on a wall to create an all over look as Mano has done here. Notice how the placement seems random, but yet upon examination is simply 4 rows of the design, each row being offset from the one above and with either an even or odd number of design in each row. Everything is evenly spaced in order to create uniformity and is simply done.

Notice that the same design used at the top molding of the room was also used across the front of the door. How beautiful!

Take a look at the adjacent wall and the unique treatment on that wall. I've shown you how to do rolled plaster using a roller, diluted joint compound and a wallpaper brush, I feel that this wall could very well be that particular technique.

Hey Mano! Let us know how you did it! It's beautiful!

Designer's Tips:

To create an evenly spaced wallpaper effect on your wall, simply measure your wall height and divide it by the number of rows of designs you would like to use on your wall. This gives you the placement for each line of stencil designs vertically (floor to ceiling).

Next, measure the width of the wall and divide that number by the number of designs you would like per line. That will give you how far to space each design apart.

When repeating to the next line, simply apply the design directly in between the designs you did in the first line to create an offset pattern.

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