Rollerwall: Paint your wall to look like wallpaper — 146 patterns

Do you love the look of wallpaper but prefer paint? You can have both with Rollerwall — an embossed paint roller that rolls a design onto your wall. It comes in 146 different patterns, per my count, including lots that look very retro. In fact, this product had a 1950s precursor. It’s shown below, in an ad that we featured as part of an Anne Taintor contest specially for Retro Renovation — I believe the original advertisement was for a “Sherwin-Williams Kem-Tone Applikay” roller.

A 1950s precursor — Kem-Tone Applikay roller. This is contestant Richard S.’s entry in special Anne Taintor contest. And hey, see a 1954 TV commercial for the Applikay system here.

Thanks to Natasha for this tip. She wrote:

Hi there,
I’m redoing my kitchen and stumbled upon this flashback product that I can’t believe is still on the market! It’s called rollerwall and it’s a paint roller (kinda like the old kem-tone rollers) that makes a pattern as you go. And the patterns…. so many classic retro patterns to choose from it makes me giddy

There are two videos on YouTube that show this project in action:

and

I might just try this in my husband’s bathroom!

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