One of our main motivations when it comes to (slowly) decorating the house is to make it a fun and welcoming place to live, visit, and grow up in. We’ve two small children, and certainly have no aversion to trying things out that perhaps others wouldn’t.
One thing we’ve both been keen on is the idea of vinyl wall graphics. Basically stickers for your wall. These are becoming ever more popular, maybe not so much so across the UK, but certainly it would appear in mainland Europe and USA. We’ve seen many designs we like, and decided on a few we thought would be cool in the house.
So we first ordered some relatively cheap, but we thought quite fun, decals from Elly Nelly, a simple row of people, in dark blue. They now reside on a wall in our ground floor hallway, forming a disorderly queue for the ground floor bathroom/utility room.
The fitting of the vinyl decals was very straightforward, the instructions were clear and easy, and with a little care and time they were quickly in place, and so far have stuck firm.
After this minor success, we decided to bite the bullet and buy the “big one” we’d been lusting after for a little while, the “Moon Kite” from Blik. First of all we bought some paint from Dulux, it was one of their made to order colours, deep, dark blue, very rich. It looks cool, but application was a pain, it was thick as glue, but because it was dark took four coats to look anything like decent! Glad it was a relatively small wall!
The graphic took what felt like an age to apply, mostly because the tree has branches that shoot off in all directions, and peeling the backing away was a real challenge. But we’re very pleased with the results, and we’ve had a hell of a lot of positive feedback from visitors to how good it looks, most asking “how is it done, is it stencil?”.
If you’re considering using vinyl decals to brighten up or change the mood of your walls, then we couldn’t recommend them highly enough. The service from Elly Nelly was superb, and Blik were also very helpful. Their UK agent however was a little slow, and not so helpful as Blik themselves, but beggars cant be choosers, the product itself is top-notch.
