John and I wanted to bring a little Indian-styled glamour into Madcap Cottage, so we turned to the wonderful folks at Casart Wall Coverings. The result is sublime. Here's John seated in front of the super-magical Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
Afternoon, gang!
How’s your week going? We have been juggling all sorts of craziness here in New York: First, there was an earthquake earlier in the week, and now a hurricane is coming through this Sunday… Crazy, huh? If a storm of locusts comes sweeping through Brooklyn on Monday, I plan on cracking open a box or three of white wine and drinking up in end-o-the-world glamour. I am going down in style.
But let’s hope that it’s all just a blip on the old radar, so don’t give up on those renovation projects.
This past weekend, John, Blair, and I installed a fabulous product from Casart Wall Coverings in the kitchen of Madcap Cottage in upstate New York.
What?! You aren’t familiar with Casart? They are a fabulous company that creates amazing wall coverings that are like giant stickers. You simply pull off the backing and install. It’s like a big decoupage project, and there’s none of the hassle usually associated with wallpaper. No bubbles. So wallpaper paste. No fights with your significant other.
We worked with Casart and had them blow up a vintage black-and-white print that John and I found at a bazaar in India. Our custom wall covering arrived in 4 wonderful rolls, and we installed the product in less than two hours. Simple, chic, and fast.
Check out our handiwork:
Here's the vintage Indian print that John and I had blown up and asked Casart to craft into a wall covering that perfectly fit our kitchen wall.
The Casart Wall Coverings rolls hang from the beam in our kitchen ceiling in anticipation of being hung. To put us in the right mood, Jason cranked up the fabulous song "Midnight at the Oasis" and ran around Madcap Cottage singing "Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon, and kick up a little dust."
Jason inspects the wall covering and weighs in. Announced Jason: "I'll be your belly dancer, prancer."
John trims the Casart wall covering around the outlet on our kitchen wall. Look at those camels traversing our wall en route from the mosque to perhaps a far-flung harem or spice bazaar. Jason wanted to get up on the kitchen counter and do the dance of the seven veils, but John thought that a little sand dance might be inappropriate at 9am on a Saturday. "Wait til' sundown," announced Jason, sucking in deep on his hookah pipe. "I'll be Salome and let's call this fair land Babylon."
Blair and John work their magic, and the Casart "mural" of an Indian mosque comes together upon the wall of our Madcap Cottage kitchen. Jason called Blair, "Jasmine," for the day: "Will you be my genie in a bottle?"
Here's the kitchen with our custom Casart Wall Covering in place. Chic, huh? And so easy to install. P.S. The Casart products are super easy to remove if we decide to take the wall in a more "Attila the Hun En Route to Meet the Visigoths" sort of route.
Tags: Camels, Casart Wall Coverings, Harem, india, Madcap Cottage, Midnight at the Oasis, Mosque, Taj Mahal
OMG! No, I haven’t heard of Casart, but am super excited now!
It looks fabulous, dahlings! I can almost feel the sand blowing across the dunes. You look like you’re having fun and reading your post is the next best thing to actually beeing there during the installation. It’s always a treat to see where our “children” end up and a nice feeling to know our Casart has such a terrific home with you.
That is so freakin awesome I can’t stand it! Why the hell did I just cover my walls in fabric? I am having severe wall envy to go with this weeks earthquake and hurricane stress. Thanks guys.