Floral Wallpaper

[Cindy C.]

Elkins wailed:

> I have blisters rising on both hands. I can't move my 
> neck.  And I have sticky wallpaper paste coating every 
> last inch of my body.  It is plastered all over my 
> clothing.  It is matted in my *hair.*  

<sympathetic look>

Why do I have this weird feeling that you're doing this all by yourself?

Maybe you could break it up?  Like remove the wallpaper from Room
Number One, then paint it.  Then move on to the next room?  Then you'd
have blisters in new places, at least.


> But since I'm taking the time to post, I would like 
> you all to imagine, if you will, a large house in 
> which every last room was papered in a different
> floral wallpaper, each one more hideous than the 
> last.  And I do mean hideous.  

You know, I don't get the "hideous" wallpaper thing.  When we shopped
for a house, we encountered all manner of weird wallpaper decisions. 
One house had wallpaper in every single room -- including the
ceilings!  The light switches and the electrical sockets -- making
them darn hard to find.  Like it was a wallpaper showroom or something.

So what is *up* with wallpaper?  Is the hideous stuff a lot cheaper
than the less jarring stuff?  And what's wrong with a nice coat of paint?

Anyway, Elkins is making me feel guilty.  I painted the dining room,
so now it is time for to paint my bedroom.  It's currently "dirty
peach," and I can't take it anymore!

Cindy -- wondering what colors Elkins and the gang have settled on and
who changed a white bathroom from white walls to bold periwinkle walls
and likes it better that way