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DIY Graphic Brushstrokes Hand Painted Wallpaper

Aug 26

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

I know what you’re thinking, “Colleen, I thought you don’t like colour!” But it’s not true! I actually love colour, I’m just a fan of neutrals in my home. BUT every once in a while, I like to do something fun like a bold blue dresser, or a kelly green patterned wall.

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too
I am really glad I took the risk and tried this wall- it is so much fun. I kept telling myself it’s just paint, you can always paint over it if you hate it. But I don’t hate it at all. This wall is at the bottom of the stairs right now and is the only spot we really have to hang jackets right now. I wanted to finish it up and make it more of a feature and less of a boring wall with hooks (that makes you wonder where on earth the coat closet is). I was looking at some more complicated patterns, considering stencilling, and going back and forth between just ordering wallpaper, when I saw this hallway. It was so graphic and wonderful and it was painted by hand without a template. The organic look is what made it stand out and it’s totally something that anyone could pull off. It was just my type of project.

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

 DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too
Since I’ve partnered with Para Paints this year, I’ve been able to try some bolder colours than I’d usually pick out. I picked out this kelly green, ‘Place Your Bets’ from Para Paints. I’m not going to lie, when I saw how bright it was in the can I got nervous again. I really don’t do colour in my home but it was an excited kind of nervous, so I just went for it. You can find all of the tips from Beautiful Matters’ blog post, but the gist is you just grab your paint brush, dip it in the paint and start painting tallies until your brush runs out of paint… then do it again. I love that it’s not perfectly uniform in size, shape, and opacity. It’s got so much character and texture.

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too
The hooks we chose are from CB2 and I love them but they are really more form than function. I was super excited about them when I ordered them because they’re so darn beautiful, but they don’t hold as many coats as we’d like. I’m considering building a coat rack to put in the corner down here to hold a couple more. But really… they are beautiful and if you have a coat closet like almost every other house out there- I’d totally recommend them. They match the narrow wood shelf we built in the entry way perfectly too! We hung them randomly, which I love the look of, keeping some of the smaller ones lower to the ground for little people to hang their coats on (and they’re pretty excited about it).

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

Oh, and if you’re wondering what that tiny shiplap wall is all about… it’s actually covering a door frame that leads to our basement suite. We found we were getting a lot of noise transfer through that thing so we packed it with insulation and shiplapped over. When we pull it off, we just need to trim out the door to hide the nail holes from this treatment and it will go back to being a normal door. In the mean time… sweet silence ;)

DIY Hand Painted Wallpaper- I love the green brush stroke pattern! Looks so easy too

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  1. Haley

    Aug 27 at 5:35 am

    Love how the wall came out – the color is amazing!

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  2. Bethany Corrine

    Aug 27 at 11:01 am

    Oh my goodness Colleen…I love this so much. I have been a reader of your blog only since about January but I love it. You are actually the only blog I have the patience to follow for a long time. I really enjoy your sense of style as it’s almost identical to my own. I always feel so refreshed after seeing some of the things you’ve been able to do in your home! You have a way of making such beautiful things seem totally doable and down to earth.

    I have been looking for a project of yours to emulate but as of right now I am living in a college dorm situation and will be living here for at least another year. It’s hard to find home decor projects that fit that type of room but I would love to have a more personalized space. Right now I’m thinking about getting a large blank canvas and painting this green pattern onto it to put over my desk. Maybe add some hooks or a magnetic back for a message board of sorts.

    Anyway, thank you for sharing your work! You are an amazing inspiration. :)

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    • Colleen Pastoor

      Aug 30 at 1:12 pm

      Thank you SO much Bethany! I am so flattered by your comment, it seriously made my day. I really am glad that these projects seem do-able… because they are! I get so frustrated when I look at a ‘simple’ project on Pinterest only to find it requires special skills that I clearly don’t have.

      Dorms can be tricky, but that challenge is part of the fun, isn’t it?! Your idea sounds AMAZING, I would love to see how it turns out! You can actually buy magnetic paint instead of using a metal backing. That might save some frustration. ALSO… vinyl is a dream for dorm spaces since it’s removable! You can cut it with a craft knife instead of investing in a cutting machine (think simple shapes like triangles).

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