Going Gaga Over Decorative Decals

Long before I even started decorating as a hobby, I already had a penchant for sticker-type decorative accents. I remember as a child, whenever I saw beautiful stickers, I would put them up on the interior walls of our house. Funny thing is, some grown-ups back then would think that I was just being a child, playing with things and messing up our walls, but unbeknown to them it was just a start of my "love affair" with beautiful decorative accents.

Back in high-school, when stationery was a fad, I used to buy stickers to decorate plain papers and envelopes whenever I was short on cash to buy stationery. I would save little by little until I have enough for a set of stickers to decorate and make my own stationery. My classmates would admire my unique "invention". I enjoyed the adulation and my newly formed hobby that even when I had the cash to buy stationery I would make my own. I think even back then I knew that nothing beats creativity in creating unique items.

I decorated my book covers, notebooks and boxes with stickers. During my college years, I collected several stickers that I used to decorate my scrapbooks. My bedroom walls and closet doors had their shares of my sticker decorations.

Fast-forward to my married life and motherhood, my penchant for stickers continue. I decorated my daughter's nursery with stickers and decals of her favorite cartoon or Disney characters. Winnie the Pooh and his gangs of forest animals were the first ones to appear on her walls. Until her preteen years, my daughter's room had its share of different decorative stickers, all child-friendly. They went on walls of the bedrooms, bathrooms, windows and ceilings too! The good thing about those stickers-- we were able to bring them from one house to the next. Several moves later, the stickers are still tacky, even when some of the colors may have rubbed off. I had to retire them since my daughter is no longer what you can consider a little girl anymore, at 15, she squirms at the very same things she used to adore. So, I packed the stickers in one box, which I kept in our garage.

Decorating with decals back then was strictly more juvenile than mature, unless the adult likes cartoony stuff, you rarely see decorative decals on other walls except the children's quarters. Fortunately, that is no longer the case. You can now find decorative decals that are sophisticated that even interior designers would incorporate them into their projects.

Here at our current home, I have rekindled my "love affair" with decorative stickers. Known more as decals, these items are now on our dining room walls, bathroom walls, living room walls and hallway mirror. The newer, more sophisticated decorative wall decals are becoming such a rage. They are an affordable way to update any room in your house and they are easy to remove, replace and reposition. I have introduced decorative decals to my husband's sister and now she had plenty that she used in her own home.

Below are some of the photos of how I used beautiful decorative wall decals to decorate our home. Hopefully, they will inspire you!

A pair of scroll design decals flanking the top of the powder room mirror.

A pair of acanthus design decal flanking a picture in the powder room.

Word decals surrounding the mirror in our formal dining room.


An acanthus design decal on the wall next to the window of the formal living room.

Word decals on hallway mirror. The mirror looks etched with these decals.

For more tips on how to decorate with decals, please read my article published on Associated Content from Yahoo by clicking on the link below.

How to Decorate with Decals