Hi there! Welcome back ☺️ Our projects lately have been centering around Thomas’ room (BTW, Thomas is my 18 year old son who just started virtual college and currently lives upstairs 🧑🏼‍🦱) for the past couple of weeks so today’s update is highlighting another change we made up there: a feature wall! ✨

I love the look of vertical shiplap and we had originally discussed using mismatched boards and creating a vertical wall that mimicked the dilapidated “surf shack” look. You know, driftwood, gray-ish brown with casual vibes. 🏄🏼‍♂️ Anyway, Thomas and I spent time looking around town and realized we would not only have to purchase the boards, but we would then have to spend hours and hours staining them and gray washing them to get that textured and worn look. And then we’d spend hours cutting and nailing them to the wall. I got tired just thinking about it. 🥱 Instead, we opted to go for a similar look with a TON less work! 😁

Ok, if you’ve been here (visiting the blog or my Instagram) since last year then you might recall our precious experience with peel + stick wall paper. 🥴But guess what!?! This was TOTALLY different! 😳
Wunderwall is actually much thicker than the Target stuff we used in the polka dot bathroom, so we didn’t have any pieces get stuck together and didn’t have to throw any in the trash. 🎉 And because it is much higher quality the install process went much faster and smoother than before. 🎉 We chose to order our mural on the canvas paper so it actually has a texture to it and isn’t slick paper which makes it look much more realistic IMO.

Here are some words from the man, the myth, the person who actually does all of my projects (😅) 👩‍❤️‍👨

MATT:
After a very challenging experience (you can say that again, hunny 😬) with the thin Target wall covering, we were very pleased with how easily the Wunderwall installed.  Because of the thick material used by Wunderwall, it is much easier to accurately place and also push out air bubbles.  Overall, it was a great alternative to actual wood planking because it saved us tons of time but we get the same look!

Installation tips:

-Focus on making sure the first strip you install is straight and level.

- For each strip, try to work from the left side and gently push down on the middle of the strip.  This will allow you to really line up the left side which adjoins the previous piece, and you can basically focus on the right side last. 

 - Use the provided tape aligners.  I thought that they really helped to keep everything level.  

From Summer: Dave at Wunderwall is so wonderful to work with! If you order a mural let me know because I’d love to see your project! 👀 And tell Dave I sent you! 👋🏼

I can’t wait to add some decoration to this wall! I am planning to do some floating shelves and a surfboard/skimboard/wakeboard situation… so I’ll definitely update to my Insta stories and here on the blog when we finish that.

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Stay dry friends!