Latex paint is recommended for Anaglypta, and Bakewell said he prefers a high-gloss paint on ceilings to accentuate the design. Because it’s an oil-based product, Lincrusta must be painted with oil-based paints. Lincrusta first must be trimmed, then soaked in water, wiped off and put up with heavy-duty wallpaper paste. Bakewell also worked with the Reidys and installed the Lincrusta, no simple task in itself. Working on weekends, it took the pair three months to put up the Lincrusta and finish it with a hand-rubbed glaze in a peach-tone pink with eggshell highlighting. The Reidys, who belong to a musical collectors club, have outfitted the 30-by-30-foot room as a Victorian ice cream parlor, complete with an antique soda fountain, stained glass windows and original ice cream parlor lights. The couple papered the downstairs ceilings of their hilltop homewith Anaglypta, installed a Lincrusta wainscoting in the entryway to their Victorian music room and hung artfully glazed Lincrusta between the copper-plated tin ceiling and dark oak wainscoting in the music room itself. When it comes to modern use of the English wall coverings, David and Dianne Reidy, who live in central Orange County, seem to have it all. The famed Sarah Winchester “Mystery House” in San Jose, a 160-room mansion built over a 38-year period beginning in 1884 by the widow of Winchester firearms magnate William Winchester, has dozens of rooms covered with Anaglypta and Lincrusta. The material once was used to decorate the outside of Pullman railroad cars and can still be found in many American homes after more than 100 years. Lincrusta may be expensive, but it is by far the most beautiful of the Crown Berger wall coverings, said Bakewell, adding that it is almost indestructible. Lincrusta friezes, which come in 33-foot rolls, carry a suggested retail price of $114, she said. The suggested retail price on the SupaDurable wallpaper is $54 per double roll, according to Morgan. The wallpaper, which comes in different weights, includes the original cotton and wood pulp paper now called Anaglypta SupaDurable a lighter-weight, less heavily embossed paper called Anaglypta Original, and two super-light vinyls. Hiser’s decorator, Margaret Allen of Orange, calls the result a nice period effect and a wonderful alternative to tin ceilings at a “reasonably moderate price.” “I think people are really amazed to find out it’s wallpaper,” said Hiser, who selected the deeply embossed, geometrically patterned paper because it recalls the look of pressed tin ceilings. The results were viewed by more than 500 people in October when the home, a two-story Craftsman-style built in 1913, was on the Old Towne Orange Home tour. She hired a wallpaper hanger to do the job, but he had trouble with it, and Hiser finally got Bakewell to finish the work on her dining room ceiling and upstairs hallway. When Nancy Hiser bought Anaglypta for her ceilings five years ago, she considered hanging it herself but decided it looked “a little overwhelming.” Just don’t roll the seams, they caution, or you’ll flatten the design. Wallpaper retailers say the paper is easy to hang. With regular wallpaper, you can just bend it, but you can’t do that with Lincrusta or Anaglypta.” Lincrusta is harder to work with than the Anaglypta, especially on curves and corners. “There’s little tricks to installing it, and you have to be very careful. “There’s so few of us who are familiar with it,” Bakewell said. Bakewell, who has been hanging paper for more than 50 years, first hung the embossed paper with his father in Texas when he was 12 years old. The best-selling Lincrusta that Classic Ceilings sells is an Edwardian dado introduced in 1906.īoth products are manufactured to be painted, said Matt Bakewell, a Garden-Grove based installer who only works with Anaglypta and Lincrusta. Generally, Anaglypta wallpaper is used for ceilings. You need walls with a lot of height to carry off the Lincrusta friezes, but the wallpaper goes with any decor,” Morgan said. “People come in here and say, ‘That’s just for Victorian houses, isn’t it?’ But I think you could use it in just about any kind of house. factory in Darwen, Lancashire, the center of England’s wall covering industry. The company sells the products in the western United States.īoth Lincrusta and the lighter embossed papers are still made the old-fashioned way, embossed on heavy presses in the Crown Berger Co. If it’s not a tin ceiling, it’s probably Anaglypta.Īnd those with an eye for detail can spot the wall coverings on the sets of such TV shows as “Dear John” and “Frank’s Place,” said Donna Morgan, co-owner with husband, David, of Classic Ceilings in Fullerton. For a firsthand glimpse, look up the next time you visit a Marie Callender’s Restaurant.
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