Peel & Stick Wallpaper, Wall Panels & Tile Decals - Main Street

Most rooms get a glance. The dining room gets an audience. People sit in it for an hour at a time, facing the same wall, with nothing to do between courses but look around. That makes wallpaper for a dining room one of the best-value decorating moves in the house: a pattern that would be background noise in a hallway becomes the thing your guests remember. This guide covers the wall, the pattern and the layout, all with peel and stick sheets rather than a weekend of paste. What makes the dining room an easy room to wallpaper A dining room asks very little of a wall. There is no shower steam, no toothbrush splash and, in most homes, no stove on the other side of the plaster. It is used in bursts, then left alone. For a self-adhesive paper, those are close to ideal conditions. Main Street's wallpaper sheets are made for exactly this kind of surface. Each product page lists the application surface as painted, sealed and finished surfaces, and the brand's installation guide names smooth painted drywall among the best places to use them. Most dining room walls are just that. The format helps too. Each sheet is 11 x 16 inches, about 1.22 square feet, and a 12-pack covers roughly 14.6 square feet, so you can buy for one wall or one section of it. The product pages also describe the sheets as removable and repositionable, which suits renters who want a dinner-party backdrop without a conversation with the landlord. Choose the wall your guests actually face In a living room, the feature wall is usually behind the sofa. A dining room works the other way around: think about what sits in front of each chair, then pick from these four spots. The wall opposite the host. Whoever sits at the head of the table spends the evening looking down its length. Paper the far wall and the whole table gets a focal point. The window wall. A window breaks a wall into small sections that sheets fill neatly. Pattern around a bright white window frame makes the view look deliberate, the way a mat sets off a painting. Behind the sideboard or buffet. A papered rectangle above a sideboard stands in for a large piece of art, and it never needs framing. The boundary of an open-plan dining zone. When the dining table shares a room with the kitchen or living area, one papered wall tells the eye where dinner begins. Watch the chair line and the serving zone Dining rooms have one hazard other rooms do not: chairs. Every time someone pushes back from the table, a chair back can knock the wall behind it, and paper there is a surface finish, not armor. The simplest fix is to start the pattern above the height of your chair backs. A chair rail, even a slim painted strip of trim, gives you a crisp edge to trim against and protects the band below. The second zone to think about is wherever food gets served. A buffet that holds warming trays or a pass-through from the kitchen will see steam, drips and the occasional splash of gravy. The sheets are paper, the brand does not publish a heat rating for them, and Main Street lists areas exposed to moisture among the surfaces to avoid. Keep the pattern a sensible distance above anything hot or wet, and keep candles well clear of the wall. Wallpaper for a dining room: four ideas using sheets 1. A dark floral around the window Deep grounds do something special in a dining room, which is mostly used after dark. Queen Anne's Lace scatters fine cream and gold wildflower heads across a near-black background. Under a warm pendant light, the pale flowers glow and the dark ground falls away, which makes a small room feel intimate rather than cramped. Wrapping it around a white window frame, as in the photo above, gives you strong contrast with almost no effort. 2. A framed panel above the sideboard If papering a whole wall feels like too much, treat the pattern like a painting. Set 12 sheets upright in two rows of six and you get a panel 66 inches wide and 32 inches tall, a good match for a standard sideboard. That uses one full 12-pack with nothing to spare, so buy a second pack for pattern matching and the occasional miscut. Edge it with thin painted molding for a built-in look. A botanical such as Magnolia Branches, white blossoms on a deep teal, suits this treatment because the pattern has room to breathe inside the frame. 3. The back of a china cabinet or hutch A glass-front cabinet full of white plates is a wonderful thing to line. The back panel is usually sealed or painted wood, which sits on the brand's list of suitable surfaces, and the area is small enough to finish in an evening. Toile Forest, a green tree canopy against a pale sky, turns a stack of everyday dishes into a proper display. For trimming around shelf supports and hinges, our guide to wallpapering furniture walks through the cuts. 4. A warm wall to anchor an open-plan table In a shared kitchen and dining space, you want the dining corner to feel like its own room without building one. Wood Slat Panel prints the look of warm brown vertical wood slats, and on the wall beside the table it suggests paneling and warmth without a single board. It is a printed, smooth finish, so it reads as wood from across the room rather than up close. Dark or light? Decide by when you eat The usual advice about pattern scale and color applies to every room, and our living room ideas cover it in detail. The dining room adds one question the other rooms do not: what time of day is this room at its best? Mostly dinners. Lean dark and rich. A deep ground looks its best under lamplight and candlelight, and the room will rarely be judged in harsh midday sun. Mostly breakfast and homework. Go lighter. A quiet pattern like Neutral Palm, soft beige fronds on cream, keeps a morning table bright and plays nicely with whatever else is happening in an open-plan space. Both. Choose a mid-tone pattern and let a dimmer on the pendant change the mood. Distance matters too. Guests see the wall from a seat a few feet away, where a very fine pattern can blur into one color while a medium motif stays readable. Tape one sheet up, sit in the chair facing it and judge from there before ordering the rest. Measuring and hanging sheets in a dining room For a full wall, multiply width by height in feet for the square footage, divide by the 14.6 square feet a 12-pack covers and round up. Keep a margin for trimming around frames and outlets. Our measuring guide works through a full example. Hanging follows Main Street's four steps. You need a measuring tape, a pencil, a utility knife, a damp cloth and a smoothing tool. Prep. Wipe the wall with a damp cloth, then with a mix of 30% isopropyl alcohol and 70% water, and let it dry completely. If the room was recently painted, the brand says to wait at least four weeks first. Measure and align. Draw a light pencil guide with a level. In a dining room with a chair rail, the rail is tempting as a guide, but old trim is rarely true, so check it. Peel and stick. Peel back the first few inches of backing, align the top edge to your guideline and press it firmly into place. Smooth and trim. Pull the backing down slowly while the smoothing tool pushes air out toward the edges, then trim at window casings, the chair rail and the baseboard with a sharp utility knife. For corners and outlets, see our step-by-step guide on how to apply peel and stick wallpaper. Frequently asked questions Is peel and stick wallpaper good for a dining room? Yes, it is one of the better rooms for it. Dining room walls are usually smooth, painted and dry, which matches the painted, sealed and finished surfaces Main Street recommends for its sheets. Keep the pattern above chair-back height or behind a chair rail, and away from warming trays, candles and any spot that sees steam or spills. Which wall should you wallpaper in a dining room? Start with the wall most diners face, usually the one opposite the head of the table or the wall behind a sideboard. A window wall also works well because the frame breaks the pattern into neat sections. In an open-plan space, paper the wall that marks the edge of the dining zone so the table feels like its own room. Should dining room wallpaper be dark or light? It depends on when you use the room. If it mostly hosts evening meals, a dark pattern looks rich under warm lighting and makes the space feel intimate. If the table is used for breakfast, homework and daytime work, a lighter, quieter pattern keeps it bright. Test one sheet on the wall and judge it from a seat, not from the doorway. Can you put contact paper on a dining table? People do, but a tabletop is a working surface that sees hot dishes, spills and constant wiping. Main Street's paper sheets are not sold as a tabletop covering, and the brand does not publish a heat or water rating for them. We would keep them off the top itself and use them where they last, such as on a sideboard, a hutch back or the wall behind the table. How many packs do I need for a dining room accent wall? Multiply the wall's width by its height in feet, then divide by 14.6, the approximate coverage of a 12-pack of Main Street's 11 x 16 inch wallpaper sheets, and round up. A 10 x 8 foot wall is 80 square feet, which works out to about five and a half packs, so buy six, plus one more if you are trimming around windows. Each product page lists its exact coverage.

Children redecorate their own lives about once a year. The dinosaur phase gives way to horses, the horses give way to space, and the wall you painted so carefully at age four is suddenly "for babies." That is exactly why kids room wallpaper in peel and stick sheets makes sense: you get a real pattern on the wall now, and a way out when the next obsession arrives. Here is how to plan it, room by room and wall by wall, from the nursery to the preteen years. Why sheets suit a kids room wallpaper project A full roll of pasted wallpaper is a commitment measured in years. Sheets are a commitment measured in weekends. Main Street's Classic Sheets are 11 x 16 inches (about 1.22 square feet each), sold in 12-packs that cover roughly 14.6 square feet, so you can buy for the exact wall you have in mind instead of a whole room. That small format changes how you think about the space. Instead of asking "which room do we paper?", you start asking "which surface does this child actually look at?" Often the answer is one strip of wall behind the bed, the back of a bookcase or the fronts of a dresser. Most of those can be finished during a long nap. The other advantage is the exit. The sheets are made to peel off cleanly from suitable walls (smooth, clean, painted or sealed), which is what makes them workable for renters and for anyone who suspects the unicorn era has a shelf life. Picking a pattern they will not outgrow by next year The trap with kids peel and stick wallpaper is buying the pattern the child loves today at a scale that dominates the room. A few rules keep the design flexible: Choose a motif, not a character. Clouds, stars, butterflies and botanicals age well. A licensed cartoon does not. Let the background do the calming. A pattern on a white or pale ground reads lighter than the same motif on a saturated color, which matters in a small bedroom. Keep the loud part to one wall. Three plain walls give toys, art and clutter somewhere to land. A few designs from the collection show how that plays out. The Cloud sheets are a watercolor sky in pink, peach and lilac, sprinkled with tiny stars, dreamy enough for a toddler and soft enough that a ten-year-old might keep it. Bohemian Butterflies puts outlined butterflies in teal and pink on a white ground, a livelier pick for a child who wants the wall to say something. For a quieter room, Magic Whimsy scatters small blue wildflowers and butterflies across white, the kind of print that sits comfortably beside wood furniture and a knit throw. Peel and stick nursery wallpaper: plan it around the crib A nursery is the easiest room to paper and the one where placement matters most. Babies and toddlers explore with their fingers, and anything with an edge becomes something to pick at. So the smartest peel and stick nursery wallpaper plan puts the pattern where it can be seen, not reached. Paper the wall facing the crib rather than the wall behind it. The baby gets something to look at, and small hands never meet a seam. Go high on a changing-table wall. A band that starts above the table's reach line gives you color without inviting a project. Finish the order of operations early. If you are painting first, Main Street's own guidance is to wait at least four weeks after painting before any sheets go on. Work backward from your due date and schedule the paint accordingly. Soft palettes suit a nursery, if only because you will be looking at that wall at three in the morning more often than anyone would like. Five layouts that work in real kids rooms 1. The headboard band A rectangle of pattern behind a twin bed does the job of a headboard without the furniture. Hang the sheets upright, four across and two high, and you get a panel 44 inches wide and 32 inches tall. That is eight sheets, so one 12-pack covers it with four left over for pattern matching and the inevitable miscut. 2. The lower half of the wall Paper from the baseboard up to a line at roughly chair-rail height, then cap it with a painted trim strip or a narrow shelf. It gives a playroom the cozy, cottage feel of wainscoting and keeps the pattern at a child's eye level. 3. Inside the bookcase Lining the back panel of a bookcase turns a shelf of picture books into a display. It is also the lowest-risk way to test a pattern before committing a wall to it. 4. Dresser drawer fronts A plain white dresser covered drawer by drawer is one of the most satisfying small projects in any kids room. Sealed or painted wood is on the brand's list of good surfaces, and the fronts are small enough to finish in an evening. Our guide to wallpapering furniture covers the trimming around handles. 5. The closet door A painted, flat door is a ready-made canvas in a room where wall space is taken up by beds and shelves. Leave the ceiling out of your plans, though. However tempting a starry sky overhead might be, Main Street lists ceilings among the surfaces to skip for this paper adhesive. A wall they are allowed to draw on Every parent eventually finds crayon on a wall. A write-on panel gives that urge a legitimate home. Main Street makes two versions in its Craft Paper line, and both come as 11 x 15 inch sheets, slightly shorter than the 11 x 16 wallpaper sheets, so plan the grid separately. Chalkboard Classic takes chalk and chalk markers, the classic choice for drawing, spelling practice and a weekly chore chart. Dry Erase Classic takes dry erase markers. It is not magnetic, so plan on tape or clips for artwork rather than magnets. Six sheets set upright side by side make a band 66 inches long and 15 inches tall. Mount it so the bottom edge sits where your child's elbow lands when standing, and it will stay usable for a couple of growth spurts. Both products are recommended for painted and finished surfaces. We compare the two in more depth in our dry erase wallpaper guide. Wallpaper for a boys room, a girls room, or a shared one Searches split kids rooms by gender, but the patterns that last usually do not. A shared room especially benefits from a design both children can live with. Two approaches work regardless of who sleeps there: Pick a theme, then a color. Sky, garden and woodland themes each come in soft pastels or deeper tones, so siblings can agree on the idea and argue about the shade. Divide with pattern. In a shared room, a band of the same print behind each bed ties the space together while marking whose side is whose. Putting it up (and taking it down later) You do not need a contractor, but you do need a few household tools: a measuring tape and pencil, a utility knife, a smoothing tool and a damp cloth. Main Street's steps are simple: Clean the wall. Wipe away dust, then go over it with a mix of 30% isopropyl alcohol and 70% water. Let it dry completely. Draw a level line. Do not trust the baseboard or the ceiling to be straight; use a level for your first sheet. Peel a few inches and align. Press the top edge to your line, then pull the backing down slowly while smoothing air toward the edges. Trim. Finish the edges with the utility knife. Textured or popcorn walls, brick and stone won't give the adhesive a proper grip, so a smooth painted wall is the one to aim for. When the room's next chapter arrives, peel slowly and at a low angle. Our step-by-step removal guide walks through it. Frequently asked questions What kind of wallpaper is best for a kids room? Removable peel and stick sheets are a practical choice because children's tastes change fast. Pick a timeless motif such as clouds, butterflies or botanicals over a character print, keep the pattern to one wall or one piece of furniture, and apply it to a smooth, painted surface so it goes up cleanly and can come down when the room needs a refresh. Can you use peel and stick wallpaper in a nursery? Yes. Sheets work well on smooth, painted nursery walls, and the Cloud design's own product page lists nurseries among its suggested rooms. Place the pattern on a wall the baby can see but not reach, such as the wall facing the crib. If you have just painted, Main Street recommends waiting at least four weeks before applying. Is peel and stick wallpaper safe for a child's room? Main Street describes its materials on its About page as premium PVC-free paper and low-emission polyurethane, but it does not publish a child-safety certification, so read the product page for anything you need confirmed. Practically, keep seams and edges out of reach of babies and toddlers, since small children tend to pick at corners. Can I put peel and stick wallpaper in a kids bathroom? Not the paper sheets. Main Street lists areas exposed to moisture, including bathrooms and showers, among the surfaces to avoid for them. If you want pattern in a child's bathroom, our bathroom guide explains which products and zones make sense, and why the space around the tub and sink needs a different plan. How many packs do I need for a kids room accent wall? Multiply the wall's width by its height in feet, then divide by 14.6, the approximate coverage of a 12-pack of 11 x 16 inch sheets. A 10 by 8 foot wall is 80 square feet, about 66 sheets, so six packs leave only a few spares. A seventh pack covers trimming and pattern matching comfortably.

The first genuinely cold evening is the one that sends people hunting for something to make. Most fall craft ideas for adults arrive with a glue gun, a drop cloth and an hour of drying time nobody budgeted for. Peel and stick paper skips all three: you cut it, you press it down, and the project is finished when you put the knife away. What follows is six projects built around paper sheets and craft paper. All of them live indoors, all of them stay dry, and none of them needs a trip to the hardware store. Take one for a Saturday afternoon, or work down the list as the season goes. Fall craft ideas for adults that actually get finished Craft projects stall in the same two places: the glue stage and the drying stage. A peel and stick sheet removes both. The adhesive is already on the back under a paper liner, so the only real decisions left are where the paper sits and where you cut it. Scale helps as well. The Classic sheets measure 11 by 16 inches, roughly 1.22 square feet each, and a 12-pack covers about 14.6 square feet. That is an awkward unit for a whole wall and a very good one for a tray, a box lid or the back of a single shelf. One sheet is a complete project rather than an offcut from something bigger. Founder Jan McCallum trained as an oil painter, and the catalogue shows it. These patterns are drawn to be read close up, which counts for far more on a ten-inch surface than it does from across a room. Project one: line a serving tray A tray is the fastest win on this list. Lay the tray face down on the back of the sheet, trace the inside base with a pencil, cut a hair inside the line, then peel and press from the centre outward. The paper hides a scuffed base and changes the whole look of a coffee table for the cost of one sheet. Choose the paper by what the tray will actually hold. The Natural Reflection craft paper is published as water-resistant and comes in a 17.25 by 10 inch embossed panel, which makes it the sensible pick for a tray that will meet a mug. The paper Classic sheets are not sold as water-resistant, so keep those for dry duty: candles, books, a small autumn vignette. A forest print like Toile Forest reads as autumn without a single pumpkin in sight. Project two: cover the boxes the season lives in Every home has the stack of storage boxes that come out in October and go back in January, and most of them are the colour of cardboard. Covering the lid and the two long sides is enough to make them look deliberate on an open shelf. Work one face at a time. Cut the sheet about a quarter inch oversize, press it down, then trim flush along the edge with a utility knife held against the box. Corners are easier if you treat each face as its own piece instead of trying to wrap a single sheet around a right angle. A woodgrain print such as The Cabin suits the season and hides the seam line better than a geometric would, since there is no repeat to line up exactly. The same method works on drawer fronts and small cabinet doors. Our guide to wallpapering furniture goes through the larger version of this job. Project three: an autumn backdrop for one shelf Of all the diy crafts for autumn worth an hour, this one changes a room the most for the least paper. Line the back panel of a single shelf, a bookcase cubby or an arched niche, then style what sits in front of it. The colour reads through the gaps between objects and pulls the whole unit forward. Measure the back panel and subtract about an eighth of an inch on each side so the sheet slides in without buckling. A warm neutral like Earthly Feels does the autumn job without committing the shelf to one season, which matters if you would rather not redo it in March. For the mechanics of cutting sheets to fit an awkward interior, our shelf liner ideas post has the templates. Project four: a chalkboard panel for menus and labels Autumn is the season of long cooking, and a writable surface near the kitchen earns its keep. The Chalkboard Classic craft paper is an 11 by 15 inch self-adhesive chalkboard sheet that takes chalk and chalk markers, and the brand recommends it on painted and finished surfaces. Note the size: it is 11 by 15 inches, not the 11 by 16 of the wallpaper sheets. That quarter of an inch matters when you plan a grid of panels, so measure from the product page rather than from memory. Two panels side by side inside a pantry door give you a running list; small rectangles cut from one sheet turn into relabelable jar tags. Our chalkboard wallpaper guide covers the surface in depth. Projects five and six: frames, switch plates and book covers These are the simple fall craft ideas for the tail end of a pack, when you have two sheets left and no large surface waiting. A plain photo frame. Cut four strips to the width of the frame face, mitre the corners at 45 degrees with a ruler and a sharp blade, and press. A wide flat frame is far more forgiving than a moulded one. A switch plate or outlet cover. Take the plate off the wall first, cover the face, trim the openings with an X from corner to corner and fold the flaps through to the back. Book and journal covers. A shelf of mismatched paperbacks in one pattern becomes a display. We wrote the method up in how to cover a book. One caution on the small stuff: the brand lists smooth tile, sealed wood and painted drywall as its best surfaces. Plastic switch plates, glass and bare ceramic are not on that list, so test a scrap on an out-of-sight corner before committing the last sheet to one. The prep that keeps an autumn project from lifting Almost every failed fall themed craft fails at the same step, and it is the one before the paper comes out. Wipe the surface with a damp cloth to clear dust, then go over it with a solution of 30% isopropyl alcohol and 70% water and let it dry completely. Grease and dust are what lift a corner three weeks later, not the adhesive. Four things worth keeping in mind: Freshly painted pieces need time. Main Street asks for at least four weeks after painting before you apply anything. Work with the liner, not against it. Peel back a few inches, set your top edge, then pull the liner down as you smooth across. The sheets are made to be repositioned while you go, so lift and reset early rather than fighting a bubble later. Trim after, not before. Press the paper down oversize and cut it flush with a utility knife. Cutting to a measurement first is how you end up an eighth of an inch short. Skip the damp spots. The surfaces the brand tells you to avoid are textured or popcorn walls, brick and stone, ceilings, and anywhere exposed to moisture. A paper-lined tray belongs on a coffee table, not beside a sink. The full sequence, with the tool list, is on the how to use page. Frequently asked questions What crafts can you make with peel and stick wallpaper sheets? Anything with a flat, smooth, finished surface. Trays, storage box lids, shelf and niche backs, drawer fronts, photo frames, switch plates, book covers and chalkboard panels all work. The sheet format suits small objects far better than a roll does, because one 11 by 16 inch sheet is usually the whole project rather than a leftover piece. Do you need glue for these autumn diy crafts? No. The adhesive is already on the back of the sheet under a paper liner, so there is nothing to mix, brush on or wait for. You do need a few tools, though: a measuring tape and pencil, a sharp utility knife, a damp cloth and a smoothing tool. The knife is what separates a clean edge from a ragged one. Can you take the paper off a craft project later? The sheets are designed to peel away cleanly from suitable surfaces, which is why they suit renters and anyone who changes their mind by spring. Results depend on what is underneath, so test a small corner of your tray or box first and pull slowly at a shallow angle rather than straight out from the surface. Which sheets can handle a wet glass or a damp cloth? The Luxury Cardstock line, Natural Reflection included, is published as water-resistant. The paper Classic sheets are not sold that way, so treat them as dry-surface material. Neither is waterproof, and the brand asks you to avoid bathrooms, showers and wet zones entirely, so nothing here belongs next to a running tap. What are the easiest crafts for fall to start with? Start with a tray or a single box lid. Both are small, flat and finished, which is exactly what the adhesive wants, and both take one sheet. If it goes well, move up to a shelf back, where the cut is still straight but the surface is bigger and the payoff is visible from across the room.