Bedroom Makeover with Walltastic Disney Collages

I know I promised to update you on my holiday purchases and that post will come, in the meantime I decided to dive in and FINALLY decorate the boys' bedroom yesterday which up until now has been a sea of neutral paint.  We moved here late last year and whilst I have had the ideas all lined up it was, as is often the case, a real lack of motivation and time that was holding me back from making them a fab bedroom.  Not to mention the weather.  We needed a sunny day to ensure speeding drying to deter the boys from peeling before bedtime!  

Anyway, the weather was right and Walltastic Disney Collage was the answer! So, what are they all about?  Well, 64 sheets of Disney characters in a box in either a blue or pink background.  We went for the blue set which comes with the Disney pictures, a small instruction booklet and a pouch of enough wallpaper paste to make seven litres (I used a fraction of it!).

What I like about them:

• I'm not a decorator and found the slightly larger than A4 sized sheets were less intimidating and required significantly less set up than normally wallpaper 
• The variety of characters, and there are loads, 78 as quoted by the box, this means that when the time comes that they no longer go loopy for the Lion King there are plenty more characters to choose from.  
• No arguments; one loves Olaf, the other Nemo? No problem they are both on the wall!
• If they get ruined or damaged you can just replace the one sheet without having to redecorate the whole room

I decided to write this post after I had finished because I really was unsure at how the whole thing would pan out but trust me readers - it was easy.  Done in two stages in a little over two hours.  

Equipment:

• One bucket to mix the paste in
• A stick to mix the paste (once you add the water its ready in 90 seconds
• A smaller bucket with water and a cloth (to wipe down the pasting bench)
• A flat surface (this is the great bit, you don't need a decorating table! I used a piece of wood and lay it on the floor)
• Two cloths; one to clean your pasting bench the other to smooth down the designs
• A brush (I used an ordinary clean painting brush)

Doing four sheets at a time I would lay them out and stick them up and once you get in the swing of it it really was easy.  The margins inside the designs aren't straight this means you don't even need a spirit level when you are putting them up, I just followed the ceiling and gave each one a very slight overlap (because they expand with the moisture of the paste and will shrink again as they dry).

Tips:

• Worth sticking them up with blue tack to see how they will lay out first.  I didn't do this with the window which resulted in a couple of fill-ins - and actually thats the only downside the box could do with a couple of blank sheets that you can use where your room may leave a couple of gaps so that you can cut them down and use them to fill in those areas.

All in all - the boys were absolutely thrilled and I couldn't help but be impressed, we kept the blinds and walls neutral because there is so much colour and all for a bargain price of £29.99! 

These pictures are superb quality making them an excellent option to quickly transform a bedroom and you can use as many or as few as you like!