DIY Wallpapered Picture Frame Moulding

*This post was made possible by the generous support of Fancy Walls and features gifted product. All opinions are my own.

We have a brand new wallpaper pattern up in our house! Actually, I should really call it “newish” since we have the same pattern on the walls in our kitchen, just in a different color palette. For this latest partnership with wallpaper brand, Fancy Walls, I decided to reuse the pattern we chose for our kitchen (a design called “Candice”) to accent the insides of the DIY picture frame moulding I put up in our dining room. Since this space is right beside our kitchen, I wanted to make sure that the pattern wasn’t too matchy-matchy, so I ordered the peel-and-stick wallpaper from Fancy Walls in a different colorway to create a more subtle sense of cohesion between the neighboring rooms.

If you remember, the version of “Candice” that we opted for in our kitchen was color-matched to Sherwin-Williams’ paint color “Sea Salt.” For our dining room, I decided to order the pattern as it looked straight off the website because I thought the soft beige palette they used originally would look lovely alongside our cream-colored door trim and crown moulding. I didn’t need the pattern to pop quite as much as it did in our kitchen, so beige wallpaper was the perfect fit for our dining room.

Above, you’ll see how the dining room looked before I installed the wallpaper. I had put the picture moulding up myself this time last year, and loved how it turned out—especially filled with a carefully chosen collection of mountain-themed art—but one year later, I was craving a little more dimension. I also wanted to challenge myself to see if I could come up with a way to punch up traditional picture frame moulding in general to make it look a little more modern. This style of trim is ultra popular these days in the DIY niche online, and I worry for all those people who are going to get sick of the look in a few years time. How can we take the project one step further when the time comes? Wallpaper, of course!

This project genuinely couldn’t have been easier. All I had to do was install the wallpaper sheets right inside the lines of my picture frame moulding squares, layering in concentric panels, as needed, for larger frames. I pulled this off by myself the very first day back to work after my beach vacation, and it was really easy—not to mention satisfying. As per usual, I used my trusty wallpaper smoothing tool to make sure each of my wallpaper panels was bubble-free, and then I used a utility knife with a brand new blade to trim off any excess. This is my favorite knife to use because you can snip off the top-most used blade at pre-scored lines revealing a fresh sharp section. Having a new blade is essential for getting a crisp cut on your edges. Don’t try to use an old used blade—trust me!

I love the results so much more than I expected I would. The new wallpaper pattern is subtle when done in a beige color palette, but the linear design still adds a good bit of interest to the picture frames I trimmed out on the walls. Before, the frames looked a little lost on the white wall, but now with the new pattern in place, the collection has become a focal point in the room. Shop the pattern we chose here, and don’t forget that you can customize Fancy Walls wallpaper to any color you want so it works for your home and space.

Pssst…The marble plinth plant stand that you see pictured throughout this post is another one of my favorite Fancy Walls projects. Click here to find out how I made it using faux marble peel-and-stick wallpaper.

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