Before & After
Before & after: Apartment decorating with removable wall decals
When you're an avid DIY-er living in an apartment rental, there are few things more frustrating than being bound by a lease or a landlord that doesn't allow you to put stuff on the walls. (And, at least from my firsthand experience, Boston is full of those apartments.) Fret not, fair makers: several reusable, removable products aim to ease your nesting woes, like the catalog of modern wall decal designs from Blik in Los Angeles.
Inspired by a Shoestring interview we did last year with Kara Butterfield, a Syndey expat living and working in Boston as an interior stylist, extolling the virtues and vision of using wall decals as a modern apartment decor solution, I finally broke down and bought a huge "Olivia" wall decal headboard from designer Mina Javid (one of Blik's best-selling decals). The installation instructions marked it as "Grab a Pal" in difficulty, so on a recent Saturday morning, I called Kara up and enlisted her to help me install the decal on my bedroom wall.
FULL ENTRYAbout the authors
Tara Bellucci is a Boston-based writer that lives for fonts, food, and flea market finds. Whether decorating jars of her homemade jam for The Boston More »Melissa Massello is a newspaper journalist turned startup junkie and lifelong Bostonian who prides herself on her do-it-yourself attitude. From making her prom dress out More »
