In preparation for the birth of our second child, we need to move from occupying the middle bedroom in our house to the front bedroom/study/storage room and hired a painter to paint the rooms. For the baby's room, we wanted to wallpaper one wall but as I soon discovered, the choice of wallpaper is quite limited: it's either Winnie the Pooh or saccharin-style wall decals.
Before I resigned myself to painting the wall, I found Australian costume/production designer and Oscar award winner, Catherine Martin, has designed a simple yet stylish collection of wallpaper. Our pre-requisite for the wallpaper was that it had to be able to transition from the room of a baby to toddler to young child and not be too cutesy yet still display a sense of whimsy.
Martin's wallpaper is stocked at Porters Paints and after viewing her designs including "circus silhouettes" in red, we ordered "alphabet city" in green which ticked all of the boxes
When we we asked our painter if he could hang the wallpaper, he smiled and said he hadn't hung wallpaper since the 1970s and gave us tips on how to hang it. Talking to my mum she said it had been more than 30 years since she'd hung wallpaper and were people still using it. Besides in restaurants and boutiques, have you hung wallpaper at home?
