Happy New Year all!! Hope you have had a lovely time over the holidays. I assume you have taken the Christmas decorations down by now and although I love all the extra space you now seem to have, your interior might also look a bit boring all of a sudden. Time for a quick update!

The faux wood wall paper on my chimney breast has been annoying me for a while now so why not kick the new year off with a little wall overhaul. As it’s January and I don’t want to spend any money, it had to be a low budget makeover. I wanted the new wallpaper to be light and I also wanted to see if I could do something 3D as I love 3D paper effect walls, have a look at the video below to see what I came up with

I’m loving the new wall! And for only 7 pounds!! Low budget, light coloured, easy to make and fun to look at, what is not to like :D

Like I said in the video I don’t know how toddler proof the paper is but if Kiki rips pieces up I can just cut a new length of paper and stick it to the wall. So far so good though, fingers crossed!

I used normal double sided tape to stick the paper to the wall, if it proofs to be not strong enough carpet tape is always an option but that is a nightmare to take off the wall again if want to take it off again. The paper has been on for a few days now and besides one corner that I had to put a little bit of sellotape on the paper is staying put.

I used lining paper from Wilko in the 1000 grade variety which is 10 meter long and 56 cm wide and costs £3 per roll but any mid weight lining paper will do. I originally was after a roll of white craft paper, you know the once kids draw on but couldn’t find that locally. Kind of liking the more natural beige tone the lining paper has now.

Have a look at the template below that I drew on a piece of cardboard. You start with a square of 17 by 17 cm, then on 10 cm you draw a semi circle that has a depth of 7 cm creating the scallops. You can however make yours bigger or smaller or even go for rectangles instead of semi circles. Measure how long your strips of paper need to be, in my case 177 cm and keep tracing your template until you reach that length. I put a piece of masking tape on my table so I knew when I hit 177 cm. I managed to get 3 rows of scallops out of the width of my paper.

What do you think? Will you spend a few hours cutting paper to create this lovely 3D wall effect? I absolutely love my new wall and can’t believe I got this little makeover for only £7!!