Push It, Push It Real Good
First of all, I hope you all got that Salt-N-Peppa reference in the title. Good times. And now on to our guest bedroom’s recent mini makeover. Check our our lovely new Wallflowers (courtesy of LaDiff) in all of their 3D glory (btw, have you entered the giveaway yet?).
Aren’t they so fresh and so clean in white? We love the gentle shadows that they cast on the wall and the playful texture that they add to a room that’s already full of fun patterns and prints (although I believe they’d be equally amazing on the white wall of an all-white room, like white on white sculpture).
As soon as we got them home we ripped them out of their boxes all Christmas-morning style and started playing with them. The white flowers are actually magnetic, so it’s no surprise that they ended up on our fridge (so pretty!)…
…and even on our hallway’s air intake vent (it’s so nature-meets-machine):
But how do the magnetic flowers stay in place on a regular old wall if they’re magnetic? Why push pins of course! You just hammer them into place on your wall…
… and the flower is drawn to the pin and stays up like magic:
Planning our pattern was no sweat. We just laid the flowers down on a high-contrast surface (the brown back of our guest bedroom’s patterned quilt) and messed around with them until we found an amorphous blob of blooms that tickled our fancy:
Then we slowly transferred them over to the wall (working our way up from the bottom and studying their relationship with each other as we went). We also found that placing a small piece of paper to mark where the already hung wallflowers used to be really helped us keep the whole picture in mind (and study the proportions that we wanted to duplicate on the wall).
As we went we did decide to slightly alter our layout since we didn’t want our gaggle of flora to be higher than the mirror that’s centered in the room. So we made it a bit thicker and less pokie (that’s a technical term) at the top.
Before we knew it, our bloom blob was really working for us. One of the most fun things was switching the sizes around until we adored everything about our little art installation and didn’t want to change a thing (thanks to the magnetic feature you can trade the flowers around tirelessly and even spin them to face any direction with ease).
So what do you guys think? Are you chomping at the bit to win some of your own? At $37 they’re a total steal even if you don’t snag them on the house (cheaper than most art + frame pairings). Would you choose the white flowers or the black ones – or even those fun stainless dragonflies? Where would you hang yours (framing a doorway? snaking up a staircase? in a nursery? the ceiling above your bed?). The possibilities are endless…
And speaking of Wallflowers in a nursery, check out Dooce’s new nursery with none other than the very same white blooms. It’s a small world (with lots of fabulous wall accessories, apparently).
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UPDATE: After we posted our little burst of blooms, a few people sweetly mentioned that they liked the original layout on the bed a bit more than the wall blob… and we actually agreed. A few minutes of switching things around (and eliminating three blooms, which are now on the fridge) produced our newer pokier shape (that isn’t too tall thanks to the removal of those three flowers). Score.
Gotta love those Wallflowers for allowing such a quick a presto change-o. Thanks for the comments one and all- and good luck on the giveaway!
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Hey Ruth,
We were waiting for someone to say that! Too funny. Maybe we’ll just rotate between the two layouts. Or have a “summer look” and a “winter look” – or maybe one for every season (the teardrop represents rainy spring, maybe a snowflake design in the winter…).
One thing is certain, these babies are a whole lotta fun.
xo,
s
If anyone wants the dragonflies they are the “delight” deal at delight.com today: http://www.delight.com/Make-Your-Wall-Aflutter.
They also have the flowers (in white, black, pink and yellow). Happy Shopping!
Love your “Push It, Push it Real Good” reference! Too funny. You guys crack me up.
I love this idea!! We’re trying to find some kind of fun artsy thing to go in the powder room and I think this just stole the cake!! looks beautiful!!
I love these little guys. I must have them now. Wonder if you could get away with putting them in a bathroom???
SAB,
Oh yeah they can totally work in a bathroom. In fact our first thought was to add them to our striped bathroom but we opted to spice up the guest room with ‘em. They’re so versatile!
xo,
s
i love the revised arrangement! It looks more breezy instead of blobby! Great change. PLUS, now you have some fun new fridge art :)
What a coincidence, I just saw these on an episode of “The Stagers”. How cool to come to your blog and find a link to them.
Hey guys,
Where did you get the glass “dome lid” that is covering your potted plant on the dresser? I’ve beee looking for somehting like that!
Hey Casey,
That was a $4 garage sale find. I know that doesn’t really help but maybe you can find something similar at a plant store or nursery. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Hey Youngsters, perhaps you already heard from La Diff about this, but I was in the store yesterday (buying a ghost chair!) and chatted with the staff about these Umbra flowers, which I wound up adding to my order. They said that after you posted about the flowers, they shipped tons of them all over the country!
I think what you’ve done for small and/or local businesses is great.
Aw thanks! We’re just as thrilled as you are to hear that they did so well after our little giveaway. We definitely have made it a point to work with as many local people as we can to help our readers score some great swag while giving Richmond-based businesses a little boost while we’re at it! And of course we love to spotlight the little guys, so from etsy sellers to start-ups we’re all about supporting small business.
xo,
s (& j)
The ‘pokier’ version looks great! I love the idea of doing it on a white-on-white wall, I’m really loving texture and patterns at the moment :)
Thanks, guys! Sounds good to me. They’re definitely going on my birthday wish list!