Post #406654 by coruscate on Mon, Sep 8, 2008 12:06 PM

Thansk txmod!

I agree, Bradbury and Bradbury are hands down astonishing in quality and designs.
I'm quite fond of the arts and crafts designs they make, but the victorian papers are unbelieveable like VampiressRN said.

Searching for "TIKI wallpaper" often leaves one with murals of Tiki Barber the football player or computer wallpaper images, so this direct link to good stuff is great.

For those of you reading this thread and looking for wallpaper or wall covering treatments here are some additional ideas that may be useful to consider along side the papers Bradbury and Bradbury make:

When restoring my travel trailer into a rolling 1960's flavor tiki lounge, I found "Tiki Forest and Tiki Sungold" which are extrememly nice and have a googie-tiki atomic flavor to them. They are of the same quality as Bradbury and Bradbury.
http://www.melinamade.com/Store2/retro_wallpaper.php3?cookie_set=/+

You can see how I used it in pictures in this thread:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=26479&forum=1&hilite=trailer

Depending on the look you are going for, you might like a photo mural instead http://www.muralsyourway.com/myw4-design.cfm?pid=MMIAAC1007

If you have a very specific look you are going for, perhaps you can use TAPA cloth from Fiji, Tonga or Soamoa. Sometimes you can find it for sale on eBay, and here is a good place to start:
http://reviews.ebay.com/Polynesian-Tapa-barkcloth-the-Cloth-of-Island-Kings_W0QQugidZ10000000001650920

Please remember that you can buy woven Lauhala in big rolls and it makes a fantastic look that applies to the surface like wall paper with construction adhesive or mechanically with staples that complements the wallpaper.

Grasscloth is a common wallpaper found in the Asian design markets that you might like for its decor, but if in a cold moist environment it can be a bear to keep from getting dingy or moldy.

Depending on the look care and your craftiness, tropical fabrics often come in rolls 45"-60" wide and can be fixed to a wall and sealed like wall paper.
http://hawaiifabricmart.com/HawaiianPrintDobbyFabric.html

Or you just may want fabric that works with the Bradbury and Bradbury paper:
http://www.tonicliving.com/productsList.asp?categoryid=5&onsale=0

Companies sell carbonized bamboo wall coverings in many forms.
I used linoleum mastic and a product some people call "bamboo rug"
Here's some of that stuff, and it makes fabulous wainscotting, I used what they call "101"
http://cgi.ebay.com/6-Bamboo-Wall-Covering-Wainscoting-Panel-Your-Choice_W0QQitemZ330267665878QQihZ014QQcategoryZ29505QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Buying jungle paper and silkscreening additional patterns directly onto the wall is also a way to force a wall paper to be extra TIKI by adding silkscreened images of MOAI or TIKI figures. In addition to the Bradbury and Bradbury paper, maybe some of these would work as base paper
http://www.lelandswallpaper.com/tropicwall.htm
http://www.donghia.com/textiles/wallcovering/look_alikes_collection.php

Finally, you can print out custom wall paper that has suprising light fast qualities on large plotters. I use a 54" plotter for my mapping work that I do professionally and I've seen presentation bond that would stand up well to a good paper hanger knowing what they are doing. While it would cost an arm and a leg (~$1 to $10 a square foot) to do so, you could digitally design a pattern and print it out.

Hope that digression from Bradbury and Bradbury's fine papers into a general dump of wall treatment ideas helps anyone along the way.