Anyone else staying home for weeks on end, staring at their walls and wanting to make changes?
We decided we needed wallpaper.
For the last twenty years, the only thing I wanted to do with wallpaper was TEAR IT DOWN! Evidently quarantine messed me up enough to want to put it up – in more than one room!
I’ve never picked out wallpaper. I didn’t know what a big and overwhelming job this could be.
I walked into a wallpaper store that was almost as big as my house. Every wall had bookshelves. On every bookshelf were wallpaper books. In every wallpaper book were a hundred different option.
The first day I just walked in … then just walked right back out. I wasn’t prepared.
My second visit involved pulling random books off the shelf and scanning through them.
Thankfully, a sweet lady who worked there sensed that I was a bit over my head. She asked me to describe what I envisioned for my home, then pulled about six different books for me to look through.
Amazingly, several of those books had something I liked, so I brought them home to get Ted’s input, and see how it looked inside our home, with our stuff.
We finally chose one! …And then found out it was out of print.
Back to the books.
We chose another one. This time it was available! We ordered it and (for the sake of our marriage and sanity) found a man to hang it for us.
Here’s our new dining room wall:
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We also added a grasscloth wallpaper to our family room and found artwork from the PosterStore.com.
Have you made any home modifications since quarantine? Leave a comment and let me know!
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