LOW COST, HIGH IMPACT.

WALLS; ARCHITECTURAL details; CONCRETE slabs; WALL panels; FLOOR tiles; ART Deco

After getting quotes to tile the 300-squarefoot patio that hovered around $5,000 for cement tile alone, he landed on a more palatably priced alternative: tile-look stencil patterns he painted on himself in two days flat. THE HOW-TO: "Since I wasn't ripping off drywall, I needed the thinnest wall paneling I could find so the doorframes would remain proud of the actual wall", Humphrey says. To make the Art Deco tile look intentional, Lewis chose a modern floral wallpaper from Rifle Paper Co. that echoes its colors for the upper half of the walls. [Extracted from the article]

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