The WORD on the Wall

A few weeks ago, I brought home 7 boxes of antique books from the auction house.  Many of them are from the 1800’s and quite a few were falling apart.

Such was the case with a Bible in the box.  Both covers were completely detached and the pages were becoming unbound.  I’m so glad whoever owned it didn’t just trash it.

Although very fragile and tattered, the 2 covers are leather and have beautiful raised images on them. I mounted them beneath
my shelves I showed you last week here.

But the pages,
ahhh…those beautiful pages…

You know where I’m going with this don’t you???

Yes…more wallpaper.

I’m dangerously close to becoming addicted to using pages from vintage and antique books as wallpaper.

I loved covering the paneling in my entryway with vintage dictionary pages and the walls in my living room need equal attention.

I plan to paint 2 of the walls, but wanted one “focus” wall.

Different people have different feelings about repurposing Bible pages, but my feeling is that if I can keep an otherwise “trashed” Bible out of the trash, in a way that honors it…it’s a good thing.

Here is the wall before.

While the wallpaper wasn’t hideous looking, the seams in between the wallpaper segments were coming loose and looked tacky.

My mom is here visiting, so I put her to work “painting” the pages with glue while I adhered them to the wall.

I won’t bore you with the step-by-step process, since you saw it before  on my dictionary papered entryway, so here’s the finished result.

{evening shot with the lamp on}

{daytime view}

The wall has such a warm “glow” now with these 111 year-old pages.

As if these pages aren’t treasure enough, inside the Bible was this little scrap of paper with the date 2 people were baptized.

That scrap has been with those pages for 111 years, so I wasn’t about to separate them.  It’s someone’s history.  I added the scrap to the bottom edge of the wall.

I’m going to really enjoy changing the decor by the wall, but here are some glimpses of how I’ve got it decorated now.

I got this extremely old table at an auction .  I love the time-worn finish it wears.  I added vintage sheet music to the top.

 On the table sits an antique New Testament, with beautifully aged pages and my grandmother’s headcovering that she wore to church rests on it.

 This card was inside the Bible and was an advertisement for a sewing machine.

The other table along the wall is the very first table I put antique pages on last year.  It has smaller pages that are came from a tattered Bible.  On the spine of the Bible was written, “Mother’s Bible”. I don’t know who the mother was, but I hope she would like this table featuring the remnants of her dear little Bible.

I love the pedestal base and claw feet on this drum table.

I choose lots of Fall colors to dress up the table.  My son collected the pine cones, acorns and leaves for me.

 Both the wood and the tattered orange label on this old cigar box are perfect for holding more pinecones.

 The lovely old floor lamp was a bargain from an auction.  It has such pretty details.

 Aren’t the arms elegant?

And at the very end of the wall, the last page of the Bible…

Total cost for this project?  $0, Nada, Zip, Zilch!

I sold a lot of the intact books that came with the Bible, so the Bible was a leftover.  I had lots of glue leftover from the dictionary wall, so I didn’t have to buy any more!

The Word of the Lord endures forever and I’m
glad I can make this old Bible a visible feature in my home.

Blessings,
Angie

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