Unique Border Ideas

As you can probably tell, we're not much for decorating things in the "ordinary" way. Oh no. Sometimes our ideas turn out perfectly. Others we have to work on a little. But we always like to think that that's the beauty of it... keep working, rearranging, etc. until you find something you like. And like our sewing room adventure "Is it practical?" Here I think we found something practical and something that's cute too.

Two rooms in our home have pretty wall borders that we made up. What sets this apart from other borders are a couple things: 1) no wallpaper involved  2) it's only on one wall. Sounds different, don't you think?

This room needed something prettier and more delicate so we used vintage rose postcards and sheer red ribbon. The postcards are held on the back with sticky tack (found at Hobby Lobby and other craft stores). 99% of the time sticky tack comes off fairly easily and shouldn't damage the postcards at all.

This room, on the other hand, is eclectic 70's brights, so it needed something more fun. We chose to use special letters, drawings, and notes from sweet little girls. In this room we tacked them up with white thumb tacks and used yellow grosgrain ribbon behind them.

Why this is such a extra neat idea (in my humble opinion!) is that it can be done very inexpensively and be made to fit almost any room in your house! Try this in a new babies room; I'm sure you could make it really cute with some kind of sweet baby memorabilia.

The possibilities are really endless! Your choice...now you decide!

Comments

[Abigail A.]

I just love the way Achaia did this post! (She's MY sister....ha, ha, he!)
Nanny, did you notice that I changed our Sweet Sue's outfit. She's in the little birdie one. Thank you, bunches for her! She's getting lots of love!
~Abigail A.

[Kailey B.]

Hmmm, some of those drawings on the wall look familiar :) What a neat idea!
I miss you girls....

Kailey

[Achaia]

So you recognized some of those drawings? I'm glad! We love all of you girls and miss you SOO much!! We want to see you "super bad", as Abigail says. ::smile::

Love from all the Long girls!