I finally finished up one of my projects that I had in the works. I truthfully had no idea it was going to take as long as it did. I thought it would be a quick hour or so....nope. It took about 30 minutes to an hour a day for four days to do it. Figures. I hate when projects do that lol.
I had this idea about having one of the walls in our guest bathroom be like a 3D wallpaper. The idea in my head was wonderful :) But, when it came down to time and patience, I opted for a less complicated version of the idea lol ..and all it took was a couple of rolls of toilet paper...well, and some rolls of paper towels and wrapping paper.
To do this, I used approximately 3 wrapping paper rolls (you get more use from these...and you don't have to wait to stock pile a bazillion rolls of toilet paper. Believe me, your husband will thank you :) lol), 4 paper towel rolls and about 3 toilet paper rolls.
I then cut each roll into about quarter inch sections. This is what took a ton of time, not counting how bad my hands hurt after doing it.
Next I put them into little flowers using 5 sections. I hot glued the 'pedals' together. Once I figure out how I wanted my 'wallpaper' to look (even though it wasn't quite the vision I had hope for...let's say, it was more the less-patient version ;)) I added an extra sixth pedal to the bottom.
With this six pedal, I secure the top of the next flower to it once I started putting them in a line. Doing this made me use less flowers and save more time :)
Once I had all the flowers attached to each row, I staggered them when I put them up on the wall. I didn't want all the flowers to be in a line, so I started one row with a flower, and one row with the sixth pedal. You can see this in the picture below. I just hung the top flower on a push pin.
Here's the before of my bathroom. Boring, yes :)
I was planning on having the wood sticks stay there, and then realized that this looked way to Hawaiian for my taste...it was all of a sudden very tropical, reminded me of eating at Rumbi Grill lol. I don't know why :) And since I didn't want to eat at Rumbi Grill every time I went to the bathroom, I figured I should change it up a bit.
It was around this time I also realized how dark this bathroom was. So, I added lots of white accents to brighten it up a little bit. Then I thought to myself...well, maybe I should change these lights out. They have been in there ever since we moved in...and that's over 4 years ago...maybe changing the bulbs will help a little?
ummmm. Well, see for yourself.
How disgusting is that! No wonder it was so dark in this bathroom lol. And if the bulbs were that dirty, you can only imagine how dirty the light fixture was. Don't judge. I'm tall, but not that tall...out of site out of mind. Now I know to do this in my other bathroom...maybe it'll help with the lighting in there (besides the fact that I still need to change out the dead bulb from like 3 months ago)
Anyway :) This was a fun free project...nothing like having a literal translation of art in my bathroom using toilet paper rolls.
Hope you enjoyed!
Alicia @ thriftyandchic.com