Here’s a hate we can all enjoy, WALLPAPER! The worst part about moving into a pre-owned home is that someone else thought that paisley print wallpaper was really cute. They also thought that green stripes or American flags looked awesome as well. News flash, it’s not. It’s ugly and it gives me vertigo.
When Aaron and I lived in our first house there was wallpaper everywhere. There was flowered wallpaper in BOTH bathrooms (which where both pink by the way), a flowered border in the PINK dining room, some green striped wallpaper in the kitchen, something paisley or flowered in the entry and something horrible in the office. It was like amoebas everywhere, green and purple amoebas. The lady who lived there before us was so proud of her custom wallpaper and curtains in the dining room. They matched, same ugly floral pattern. Well, the border bit the dust and those curtains ended up as drop cloths when I painted over that horrible Pepto-Bismol nightmare. Take that wallpaper!
In our current home the kitchen previously had an American flag border. Yeah, that was removed before we ever moved in here. However, all of the other hideous borders remain, like Winnie the Pooh in my office, or the dolphins in the bathroom, and my personal favorite, the moose and bear border in the dining room. What?! Moose and bears? Oh yeah, and did I mention there’s dream catchers on it as well. I’m pretty positive this lady was addicted to borders and found this one in the 99 cent bin.
Maybe I’m confused, or maybe it’s because I haven’t yet reached the geriatric realm, but why on earth would I glue paper to my walls? Or maybe it’s because I got in so much trouble when I put Family Circus stickers all over my door when I was 4….(they’re still there by the way)
Filed under: Hate on February 27th, 2007
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