{Of course you could use any vintage papers that are pretty or have special meaning to you.}
I love the way it looks, I love the nostalgia it brings along.... I just love it....
I could listen to her all day...!
{We play a little bit too, but not like she does.... }
Then in the fall it was time to wall-paper the wall behind the piano.
We had a little bit of a sneak-peak of the wall
with the post I did on the potato sack stockings.
I am just now getting around to posting how I did it. {Sorry!!}
I learned quite a bit along the way, and hope that my mistakes and tips will help you out when you paper your wall with vintage music paper or other old pages of some sort.
Tips
It took me two days beginning to end.
I started by thoroughly cleaning the wall, then painting over it with primer (the wall WAS a deep red: very popular ten years ago....heeheehee).
These are some of the things I learned along the way (the hard way, unfortunately):
- Using Mod Podge or wallpaper glue makes the sheetmusic very wrinkly. You might like that, but I didn't, so I removed them, scrubbed the wall clean again, and started over.
- I thought I would like the removable tape, so I could reposition the pages, but alas: ALL the pages that I used the removable tape with had to be redone, because they were falling off!
- Double sided tape is a little bit spendy, but to my surprise the least expensive variety that I found (Target-brand) was the tape I liked best (for this project)! Good news!
Supplies
- a stack of old paper (book pages, magazine pages, sheetmusic, letters, receipts, etc.)
- double-sided tape ( I used 7)
- scissors
- spackling knife
Tutorial: How to Wallpaper With Vintage Sheetmusic
Also read the tips above.