The Halden Botanical Collage Kit - A More Affordable/Less Permanent and Beautiful Alternative To Wallpaper
I’ve always loved vintage botanicals. There’s something about them that takes me to a world of warm slow days, beautiful books, antique shops and the wild fragrance of herbs and weeds and wildflowers.
About a year ago we completely renovated an old and tired house and woke it up to become our dream house. I poured all of my love for beautiful old and unique elements into the design of each room.
When we re-did our house there was tiny bedroom that I wanted to turn into an office, but I didn’t want it to feel cramped. The solution was a little crazy but it turned out so beautiful: an interior window cut into the wall uniting the living room and the little bedroom to open it up. To really emphasize the uniting of the spaces and to add interest, I really wanted to create a floor to ceiling collage wall of vintage botanicals and then work them into the design of our powder bath and other rooms. As I went on the search for a vintage botanical collage kit…it was REALLY hard to find what I wanted. In fact, I ultimately wasn’t able to find anything that really worked. There were some concepts but they were either a little cheesy or there were often only 6-12 in a set, not enough for what I wanted to do. A large set of vintage botanicals just wasn’t in existence so my walls remained bare for the next year.
Fast forward to when we started Halden. I began to design our seed packets and I was wowed by how gorgeous our botanical art is. I knew immediately that I wanted to use the images for our seed packets to create the affordable collage kit set that I had been searching for.
And thus was born the Halden Collage Kit.
It was A LOT of work to get these images ready for print and has involved months and months of editing. Huge thanks to Karely Brinton for spending hours and hours lovingly prepping this kit for production.
I love that you can use it like wallpaper but unlike wallpaper, if you want to switch up your space, you can. It’s really perfect for a rental situation or to add interest in different places in your home. Individual prints can also be framed for beautiful moments or individual prints can be given as gifts.
When I first received the proofs for the collage kit I let out an audible “awe” as I pulled them from their sleeve.
There are 150 full color quality images on 80 lb. 8 ½ X 11 paper. Each image has been handpicked for it’s unique beauty as a stand alone image and for it’s aesthetic in the collage as a whole. It is designed to be usable and durable but also thin enough to feel like it came from an old 19th century botanical book.
To those that purchase, I hope you love yours as much as I do. I’d love to know what you think in the comments below.
-Sara Haller (Halden Co-Founder)
