Botanical Window Alcove Wallpaper Project

**This post was sponsored by Fancy Walls. All opinions are my own.

I’m back with another wallpapered feature wall project! This time, I set my sights on the main bathroom at my parents’ house. Their Dutch Colonial home is definitely newer and more traditional in style than our retro 1960s fixer upper (take the “before” tour of their home here), but I’ve really enjoyed stretching my design skills to help them makeover their space in a thoughtful way. Mom and Dad have been really open to the idea of leaning a little more modern and trendy (in a good way!) with the design, so I’ve helped them choose a brighter, fresher color palette and furniture that looks updated while still functioning well for them. The most recent transformation we completed as a mini design team was in my mom’s vanity area of their bathroom.

The space before was pretty, there’s no doubt about that. It gets great light and has really nice built-in cabinetry that works well for Mom and all of her storage needs, but I just felt like we could give the room more personality with some updated colors and a bold hit of pattern. The inset window alcove in the back of the space is what I wanted to draw attention to with this design upgrade. As you can see a couple of photos above, they have a gorgeous mountain/golf course view outside this window, so I proposed adding a more saturated paint color to the alcove to make it a focal point, plus a new eye-catching wallpapered feature wall using this botanical print from Fancy Walls.

After getting their approval on the concept, I gave my mom some design “homework” to paint the interior portion of the window alcove a new rich teal color (“Restful” from Sherwin-Williams), and then a couple of days later I swooped in to hang the peel-and-stick wallpaper. The botanical pattern that we chose from Fancy Walls is called “Botanique Bliss,” and we opted to get it printed in a custom color way to match my parents’ whole house color palette a little bit better. We loved the coloration of this “Green Sage Leaves” wallpaper, and Fancy Walls was able to use that exact color on our printed “Botanique Bliss” wallpaper. Point being that if you find a wallpaper that you love on Fancy Walls but you don’t love the color, shoot them a message to ask about customizing it to a tone that’s right for you.

The wallpaper went up without any problems (click here if you want a more in-depth tutorial for hanging peel-and-stick wallpaper), but I did feel like the cut sections of the wallpaper looked a little rough around the edges of the window alcove. So, I looped my dad into the project at this point and asked him to install some simple white trim to help ease the transition from the wallpaper to the inside of the painted window niche. This extra detail added more time to the overall project, but I think it makes the final result look so much cleaner and more professional.

To finish, we laid down a vintage rug to cover some of the admittedly tired-looking ceramic tile floor, and we hung some art to help pull the colors of the space all together. You’ll see that we focused on using blue, cream, and blush accents to make the wallpaper look more intentional alongside all of the sandy, beige tones already existing in the space (like the floors and countertop). I also brought in an aqua blue upholstered chair to put at Mom’s vanity, which further stretched the teal color of the new wallpaper into the rest of the room. Repeating colors is key when adding a new design element to a room so that everything looks balanced.

We’re all so excited by how this project turned out, and even though it has been about a month since we completed it, my mom still gushes about how happy it makes her to walk in and see the new wallpaper. I personally love how you can see it reflected in the enormous mirror above her vanity. That was such a fun unexpected result and makes it look like we wallpapered twice the square footage of wall space even though we actually only wallpapered a small portion of the room. Comment and let me know what you think, and stay tuned later this season for lots more peel-and-stick wallpaper projects to come.