I received a very, very happy phone call last week and it has been all I could do to keep the news of it under my hat until now. As it would happen, the lovely ladies at Kravet Canada follow my blog and read last Tuesday’s post about my love affair with Fornasetti’s Nuvole wallpaper.

This may feel a bit like a genealogy for a moment, but Fornasetti wallpapers are made by Cole and Son, and Cole and Son is distributed by Kravet. It’s one big happy designer family with many different personalities and aesthetics represented in the clan.

Well, last Wednesday I received an unexpected call from Sonia at Kravet {as a side note, this woman has the most perfectly shaped eyebrows you’ve ever seen…seriously…I have confessed my eyebrow envy to her many a time}. To my utter amazement and total delight, Cole and Son has decided to sponsor the wallpaper!!! Eeeeeee!!! I’m pretty much covered in bruises from pinching myself since I got Sonia’s delightful call and cannot WAIT to get this stunning, statement-making paper installed! Oh happy day!!!

The truth is, we are just at the drywall stage, repairing the walls now that the electrical has been done, and I’m waiting for the mudder and taper to fit us into his schedule. {Mudding and taping is the ONE job Graham won’t do – he values his sanity too much. Read: mudding and taping is the messiest, most tedious, WORST job in a reno!} Once the mudding and taping are done, Graham will get the trim up and we’ll paint the trim and crown and ceiling, etc…and THEN the wallpaper can go up! So I have to take my patience pill for now and wait a couple of weeks for the gorgeousness to be revealed to you all. Things are always much slower when you do the work yourself, but gratifying too {and of course, WAY cheaper}.

Next on my to-do list is lighting, so I’ll update you with that next week as we keep plugging away on the beautification of Project Ugly Duckling. She’s still more duckling than swan right now, but I can visualize her transformation and am rather giddy at the anticipation of the reveal!

Happy Thursday!

xo
s.