Mr DIY Adhesive Wallpaper For My Bedroom

After much procrastination, finally I decided to buy the wallpaper and redo my room. However, for the first few times I went to Mr DIY, I couldn't get the desired quantity of the wallpaper I needed. It's always a few rolls of particular design only. When I asked the staff, the only reply was "There's no stock in the store room, the one on display is all the available stocks!" To be fair, the display of wallpaper in the shop was getting more and more tidy. I guessed I went to the Mr DIY the wrong time, I should choose to go on the day they restock their inventory. 

wallpaper rolls in Mr DIY

Anyway, I got the quantity I needed on December 2015. I think I bought around 20 rolls of 5m wallpaper of same design. I chose that design due to the fact it's the only one with the most quantity. I think I took it all. Then, on a long weekend, that Friday was a public holiday. I started my project. The first thing was to clear all the furnitures in the room. However, it was too much. So, I just removed the mattress and the bed beam from the bed frame, for the cupboard and study table, I just moved it around as needed. 

Then, cleaning time. First, I took care of the spider web, then I scrubbed the wall and cleaned the floor. It took almost half a day. I did all the cleaning by myself. However, to stick the wallpaper, I engaged my family members to help me. Although it's a self-adhesive wallpaper, it's very difficult to stick it straight from the top of the ceiling to the floor. After I failed to get it right for a few times myself, I just called my brother to help positioned the wallpaper near the floor while I stood on the ladder and adjusted it on the ceiling edge. 

Mr DIY Adhesive Wallpaper For The Bedroom

I have been thinking to buy some wallpaper to stick to my bedroom walls for a while, however, I kept procrastinating, finally, it's my mother who actually bought the wallpaper to re-decorate my little brother's room because the paint in his room was peeling like nobody's business. My room was in similar situation, but in smaller scale. Well, it was last painted more than 10 years ago, and since only the lower side was more serious, I think the peeling was due to the dampness in the room. And a fresh new coat of paint will not be helping the situation unless one is prepared to repair the wall (scrap the paint away, patch the holes, sand the wall to make it smoother), it is quite time consuming and expensive. So, wallpaper is the second best choice to stop the further paint peel off, just cover it up!

Apart from the ugliness of the wall, the peel off paint was a mess to clean too, the wall couldn't be scrub with, any force on the wall would cause the paint to further peel off and it's not very hygienic. Below shows the situation of the peel off.

Paint peel off

Paint peel off

I tagged along to buy the wallpaper in Mr DIY. When we went there this morning, we took some time to choose the design. Initially, my mom was interested in a light colour 65cm x 5m wallpaper, however, it's the only one left, definitely not enough. So, finally we chose the 45cm x 5m wallpaper with rose design because we could find 8 rolls of it, it's bad if half way through, no material to continue and left a half finished job, more is always better than insufficient.

Wallpaper from Mr DIY (8 rolls of 45cm x 5m wallpaper and 2 rolls of 10m sticker) 

Wallpapered Top Of Cabinet

I first found out about self adhesive wallpaper on apartment therapy, since then I wanted to use that on my room. I searched high and low for the self adhesive wallpaper, it's available in Lazada and Rakuten. However, after I knew that it's sold for much cheaper price on Taobao, I lost the interest. Although it's much cheaper in Taobao, I think the shipping cost will make it not so cheap. So, the idea was left hanging. 

Then, a new Mr DIY shop opened in my place, when I visited the store, I found out that they have wallpaper (non adhesive and self-adhesive type) and the price was quite reasonable. So, I googled to know the quality of Mr DIY wallpaper. It turns out that many Malaysians were buying wallpaper from Mr DIY to decorate their homes. Weird, when I used that search term "Malaysia Wallpaper", it only leads me to some online shops. But when I used the search term "Mr DIY Wallpaper", there were many reviews. 

So, I decided to do a small project on top of my house cabinet, it is a plywood based cabinet. We put water pitcher and dish rack there, so, sometimes the water would seep into the top cover and after some time (more than 10 years), it started to crack open, it's unpleasant to look at, so that's my plan, to put the self-adhesive wallpaper on top of the cabinet. 

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