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Modern hang-ups with wallcoverings Paper makes rebirth in home decor Rebecca Keillor For Postmedia News Everything about wallpaper has changed, including its name. Now referred to as wallcoverings by designers — as it no longer comes in just paper form, but also spun and woven fabrics and silks, crushed and beaded plastics, acrylic sand and mica (finely ground stone), grass cloths and bamboo — it has experienced a rebirth in popularity in the last five years. “It’s a far cry from being floral, Victorian, very heavy and matching drapes to the wallpaper kind of situation,” says Amber Kingsnorth, of Vancouver’s Mak Interiors, who has noticed a real uptick in its popularity over the past few years for both her residential and commercial clients. “There’s lots of really great patterns and they’re very artistic and interesting, and it’s almost like doing a whole wall of art, but the price is way less than buying a canvas of that size. It really adds great texture, colour and dimension to a room,” she says.

Its renewed popularity, Kingsnorth says, is thanks largely to the way it’s evolved into design materials that people can really put their stamp on. For some of her commercial clients, Kingsnorth has designed wallcoverings that incorporate their branding elements. “There is great, high-quality printing that you can get done for very reasonable prices,” Kingsnorth says. “You can create your own patterns, have them printed and put it up yourself.” Which is exactly what designer Bertjan Pots had in mind when he produced his potato print design for the October 2009 issue of Apartamento magazine, offering people a DIY wallpaper option. “I thought maybe we could just make four prints that you put in a magazine, enlarge to a certain percentage (like A4) and print them out or just put them on a copier, which is mostly cheaper, and if you copy it on grade paper you can just wallpaper your wall with it,” he says. Though this issue of Apartamento is no longer in print and has become a collector’s item, the Studio Bertjan Pot website still hosts the design in PDF form so people can download it and continue to have what he intended — free wallpaper. Makito Inomata

Irregular ceilings can be a serious issue for wallcoverings, professional installer Juergen Wuerthwein warns.

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