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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Is wallpaper in or out?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a room in my home that I call the mystery room.
I’m sure it was planned as space for a small office, but the location and structure (just to the right of the front door, windowless and doorless) makes that impractical.
Since I moved in a year ago, the mystery room has remained dark and empty, except for two fantastic chairs in need of a backdrop. I knew the walls needed a special touch, but after considering every paint shade in the Pantone rainbow, I still had nothing.
“Have you thought about wallpaper?” asked KL my fellow Habitude blogger.
Well, no, I hadn’t, not in the 12 years since my parents ripped down that awful tone on tone yellow with silver stripes in the kitchen of my childhood home.
I scouted for possibilities and found modern looks (like the one to the right) at walnutwallpaper.com, a site that offers the public access to papers once available only to designers.
While plenty of in-the-know decorators espouse the return of wallpaper, wallpaper haters say the look is generally outdated and passe. So I’m…torn.
Where do you stand on the wallpaper debate: is it time for a resurgence or is wallpaper a trend best left in the past?
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