Temporary Wall Treatment

I have to confess...I enjoy wallpaper.  My first wall treatment, as a newly wed, was to wallpaper an accent wall in my Master Bedroom.  Wallpaper would enhance our first family home, until it went out of style and I covered it with texture.  Once again wallpaper is making a come back.  As in the past it can be very costly, and something you wouldn't want to invest in for a temporary housing.

What can you do?  I needed something that I could add to the walls and yet also remove easily when vacating our rental housing.  In comes fabric wallpapering.  No, it isn't the fabric covered walls of the 80's which I also did, but gluing fabric on the walls with liquid starch.  I am seeing it mentioned all over the place, even in the recent issue of Mary Jane's Farm.

Here is how I have used it in my own home.
I cut the flowers from the left over fabric from my curtains.  I spray starched the flower to make them stiff.

I painted liquid starch over the flowers to attach them to the wall.

They can easily be pulled from the wall leaving the painted, textured walls in tact.

The same method is used for a full wall. You apply the fabric to the wall with liquid starch for the glue.  When you are ready to leave or change, you seemly pull the fabric from the wall.  The fabric can be washed and used again on other projects.

Now for me to find a full wall...or room, to fabric wallpaper.