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2008 - Feb/March Issue

Waltner Wood & Wall Designs Meets Your Needs For Custom Furniture And Unique Hand-made Wallpapers

Several years ago Jerome Waltner, co-owner of Waltner Wood & Wall Designs, noticed that many bedrooms these days have so many windows that homeowners often have only one wall to accommodate the bed. As a furniture designer and builder, Jerome was intrigued by this dilemma. He designed a solution: a bed with a large headboard in faux stained glass. In effect, the headboard becomes a stained glass window in your room, taking full advantage of the light coming through and bathing your room in color. Don’t have a window to put the bed in front of? You can easily backlight it for the same effect. Faux stained glass, one of the specialties at Waltner Wood & Wall Designs, is a method where a solid piece of glass receives adhesive lead-lines and painted color. The result is an effect that looks like true stained glass and is less expensive.

This type of unique solution for furniture dilemmas is what Waltner Wood & Wall Designs is all about. It caters to clients who have spaces that don’t accommodate the typical pieces found in furniture stores. The company’s customers also include people who have body types or sizes that don’t fit the “average” size envisioned by furniture companies. The Waltners specialize in pieces that are in a different wood or stain color than you can find in retail stores. In contrast to many mass-produced pieces, “our furniture is built to last with no particle board and only a sparing amount of veneer plywood,” says Jerome. “Pieces tend to be 80 to 90 percent solid wood. We use traditional joinery techniques like mortise and tenon or dovetails, combined with 21st-century wood glue. Nails, screws and staples are simply not good at holding furniture together, so we don’t use them.”

Waltner Wood & Wall Designs offers innovative solutions for wallcoverings as well. When Barbara Williams wanted a new look for her townhome, she thought she would have to spend hours taking down her old purple wallpaper to get it. But in a consultation with Keri Waltner, Barbara was introduced to Faux-cal Point Wallcoverings™, a line of hand-made faux-finished wallpapers that Waltner Wood & Wall Designs produces. The torn-paper pieces, installed in a random pattern, can resemble natural stone or can be made more dramatic with the use of metallic waxes, like the paper custom-created for Barbara Williams. “To design the color combination,” Keri says, “we drew on the vivid blues, turquoises and coppers in a table runner Barbara quilted.” The result is a stunning transformation installed directly over Barbara’s old wallpaper. The papers can also be a wonderful solution to cover up paneling or damaged walls; they are made of a heavyweight commercial wallpaper backing, and are fire-rated and mildew-resistant. If the wall becomes damaged at any point, repair is easy — simply put one of the repair pieces over the damage and no one will ever know it isn’t part of the original.

To see samples of both furniture and wallpaper, visit the Waltners at the WICHITA HOME SHOW (BOOTH X507-508 IN THE CONVENTION HALL), or at their showroom at 218 W. 6th in Newton.

For information, call 316.283.0990, or visit their extensive website at waltnerwwd.com.

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