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Go from Drab to Fab, Back-to-School Decorating Tips
Have an Organized and Stylish Space for the School Year
Say goodbye to four blank dorm room or bedroom walls and welcome this school year in serious style. Rather than using tapestries and posters to decorate dull walls as in year’s past, today there are more innovative options. For those who want to bring the sophistication and style of their fashions to their New England décor, here are a few tips from Paula Berberian, Creative Services Manager for Brewster Home Fashions, producer of WallPops, the premier line of peel-and-stick wall art.
1. Express Yourself: Even if not staying in a dorm room long, you can still easily make it your own by adding a favorite quote or the ideal statement piece, personalized wall art. WallPops offers Wall Words with quotes and inspirational words to display on walls. Kits are provided on sheets with all components and include “All You Need is Love” and “Dream,” among others. Additionally, create a design all your own with WallPops be-your-own-decorator basics including 13-inch circles (Dots), 13-inch squares (Blox), 6.5 inch x 16-foot continuous rolls (Stripes) and die-cut shapes available in over 60 solid colors and designs. Most can be cut to customized shapes and sizes to personalize your look. Designs can be simple or elaborate, Stripes can be used to outline a dorm window or to line an entire wall from floor to ceiling. Blox can be placed to create a checkerboard or rotated, so it’s a diamond instead of a square, to create large scale geometric patterns, such as an alternating black and white Deco-esque design. Options are limitless and all your own. Wall Words are approximately $15.99 each and Dots, Blox and Stripes are approximately $12.99 each.
2. Play with Lights: Dorm room lighting is normally drab and bleak. Take the initiative to improve your surroundings and buy floor or desk lamps to create a more homey living space. Also, to add some glamour, try a chandelier. WallPops offers the sparkling pendants in three different styles from classic to modern. All are available for approximately $29.99 each. Styles include:
Cupid: five rows of pink hearts and beads falling 20.75 inches
Icicles: small silver reflective squares dangling 29.5 inches
Posh: five-tiers of mod-shaped silver ovals hanging 33.5 inches
3. Instant Update, Wall Art Kit: With little extra time in between classes, studying, socializing and more, few have time to hang artwork. Conveniently, WallPops offers a variety of Wall Art Kits that provide a quick and simple decorating solution. Kits come
on sheets with all the components included. New introductions include small Wall Art
Kits ideal for tight spaces and large Wall Art Kits to easily complete a room. WallPops large Wall Art Kits are approximately $29.99 each and small are approximately $15.99 each. Designs include:
Small Wall Art Kits:
Dandelion: Three large black-and-white dandelions
Give A Hoot: Three retro owls, also in black-and-white
Keys to My Heart: Three black antique keys
London Calling: London’s cityscape with outline of the London Bridge, the London Eye, Big Ben, among others
Large Wall Art Kits:
·Baroque: Black-and-white medallions surrounding a circular mirror embellishment
·Des Fleurs: Four pretty pink-and-white flowers with lime-green stems and gem embellishments
·Love Birds: A tan-and-cream tree with flowers, birds and limbs shaped in a heart comes in four square sheets
·Sitting In a Tree: Colorful, whimsical tree limbs with birds perched on them
·Plus many other styles including silhouettes, damasks, peace motifs, light- hearted florals, black & white Jacobeans, whimsical trees and modern shapes.
4. Get Organized with a Weekly Dry Erase Calendar: Apart from electronic reminders on a phone, computer or other device, keep yourself on schedule this school year while also showing some flair. Easily write reminders and notes to friends on colorful dry erase boards and calendars placed on desks, walls and even doors. WallPops Dry Erase collection is offered in five formats including 13” x 18” WallPops Dry Erase Boards, 13” x 18” Monthly Calendars, Four-Piece Calendar Sets offering four 13” x 13” at-a-glance calendars, Dot Packs that contain three circles that are 13" in diameter and Weekly Dry Erase Dot Packs that include eight 6” Dry Erase Dots for each day of the week and an extra Dot for notes. Try the following lively designs. All Four-Piece Calendar Sets are approximately $19.99 per pack, the rest are approximately $12.99 to $19.99 each.
Dry Erase Four-Piece Calendar Sets:
· Chroma: A retro geometric square with a connected circle inside of it. The four sheets come in bright green, orange, pink and teal
· Jack: A modern rendition of the British flag in four sheets that are red-and-pink, yellow-and-blue, teal-and-blue and orange-and-blue
· Zinnia: Three large flowers pop up from the corner of the calendar. Each sheet offers the flowers in different colors including hot pink, orange, light pink and purple
Weekly Dry Erase Dot Packs:
· Apps: A Dot for each day of the week and an additional Dot for notes that includes different pop art like images on each such as an envelope for Monday, a phone for Tuesday and a sun for Friday
·Holiday: Includes varied global city trademarks on each Dot such as the Eiffel Tower for Sunday, Statue of Liberty for Thursday and the Taj Mahal for Friday
By adding these elements to a room, you can go from dull and basic to dramatic and stunning without spending a lot of time or money.
WallPops collections are available at select retailers nationwide and online at www.wallpops.com. WallPops Chandeliers are $29.99 each and Decorative Room Panels are $19.99 each. WallPops Dry Erase Message Boards, Monthly Calendars and Weekly Dot Packs are approximately $12.99 each and Dry-Erase Four-Piece Calendars at approximately $19.99 each. WallPops Large Wall Art Kits are approximately $29.99 each and Small Wall Art Kits are approximately $15.99 each. All WallPops Dots, Blox and Stripes are approximately $12.99 each. The WallPops for Baby line are approximately $12.99 per Dot, Concentric Dot, Silhouette and Stripes packs; $15 per Alphabet and Nursery Rhymes packs; $20 for the Growth Chart and Wall Wishes packs and $33 for the Monograms and Tree Wall Art Kit.
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WallPops by Brewster Home Fashions is the premier line of peel-and-stick wall art on the market today with on-trend design and total coordination possibilities. Headquartered in Randolph, Mass., Brewster Home Fashions is one of the oldest independent, family-owned wallcovering companies in the U.S. that now spans five generations. Since 1954, Brewster Home Fashions has been a prominent manufacturer and distributor of fine wallpapers and home decor products for residential and commercial markets globally. A category leader, the company offers a range of brands and price points that provide more than 10,000 wall and window décor solutions.
Decorating your dorm room or rooms in your New England home with Wallpops wall art from Brewster, a New England based company
