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A few weeks back, I decided that what my small cottage bedroom needed was an accent wall. The space was cute and clean, but utterly boring.
A typical update for a room might consist of repainting the walls, refinishing the floors (if they need it) and hanging a few new pictures.
But how do you give a room real personality? Adding wallpaper can lend character to a space, but good wallpaper is not only expensive, it's also very labor intensive.
I was willing to spend the money since I was only looking to do one accent wall, but the patterns I loved simply didn't come in the colors I was envisioning. Which led me to stencils.
I discovered
Royal Design Studio's Allover Patterns and found the answer to my design dilemma. After much deliberation, I chose the
Hollywood Squares stencil.
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Finally! In the wee hours of the morning, I finished my cottage update, and I couldn't be happier with the results. What started out as bland and run-of-the-mill is now crisp and vibrant. In order to appreciate where we are now, you have to understand where we started. On that note, let's take a brief and slightly unpleasant stroll down memory lane... 
