Writer|Photographer: Teresa Firelight
Wallpaper Shell
I am sitting in for just one Decorator’s Find article. There is something I am a bit excited about and would like to share with you. That is the concept of applying wallpaper to your home. Some of the older homes (especially the Trads) only give you a small set of wall colors to choose from. Most of the newer ones allow you to create custom colors, which is an improvement, but still has its limitations. At present, none of the Linden homes let you apply a wallpaper texture to the walls.
Fortunately, there are some great products on the marketplace that provide a “Shell” of the interior walls that you can texture and color. I want to show you some “before” and “after” pictures so you can see what a difference the interior shell makes.
You can see it makes quite a difference. Here are two more:
There are a lot of good brands out there. I am going to focus on the brand that I personally use because that is the one that I am familiar with. But I strongly suspect that the other brands are equally good.
I use the interior wall shells made by Spyder Haifisch. They are sold on the Paradise Homes marketplace store.
I like this brand for a few reasons. First, they have an auto-place feature that moves the shell to exactly the right position, so that you don't have to spend a lot of time positioning it. You wear the HUD, then rez the wall shell anywhere between the house and the mailbox. Then you press the “auto place” button on the HUD. Poof! The shell rotates and moves into position.
The second reason I like this brand is that they offer a large selection and wide variety of wallpaper textures. This also includes several two-tone ones, such as the one I have in my trad -- I am enclosing a "before" and "after" with that texture:
Spyder actually puts the textures in the HUD so you can extract them if you need them. In one house, I had made an interior wall of my own -- I was able to fish the texture out of the HUD to make my wall perfectly match the rest of the room.
And another feature, you are not limited to only the wallpaper textures that Paradise Homes provides. The shell is Modify, so you can use your own textures if you want to. You can also use the SL editor to tint any of the textures that they provide.
Third, I like this brand because they update quickly for the new homes. I got a Newbrooke house a week or so after they were released – and the wallpaper for it was already available. In fact, that wallpaper made all the difference between me disliking and liking the way I had decorated my room. Let me show you:
And the other reason I like this brand is that Spyder gives great customer support. I had an issue with the wall flashing through one of the rooms on my Coniston. I contacted Spyder and told him about it. He started working on it right away, and by the next morning, he handed me a fix. From what I can tell he takes pride in his work and customer satisfaction is important to him.
At any rate, no matter which brand of Interior Shell you select, I strongly recommend that you get an interior wallpaper shell. It will bring a whole new dimension to your home.
Paradise Homes by Spyder Haifisch on Marketplace.
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