Floral Wallpaper

[Cindy C.]

Jen wrote:


> This is too funny, Cindy! I can't say I've ever seen wallpaper on
>the light switches and sockets yet.

Hey, I did not make that up!  It was awful.  I've never seen anyone
paper over air vents, though.  For obvious reasons.  :-D

I think my wallpaper aversion comes from dear Mom, who once did my
bedroom in a plastic-type *floral* with huge bright green and yellow
flowers.  Elkins' wallpaper scraper would stand no chance against that
stuff. 

'Cause it was *plastic!*

<shudder>

I like paint effects, myself.  But when I finally screw up the energy
to try it, I put the base coat on, stand back, nod and say, "You know,
my arms are very tired and that looks just fine without the paint
effects."


> I'm all for paint, too, in fact at the moment I'm in the middle of 
> painting the bathroom "Duck's Egg Blue," which in the picture has a 
> cottage-by-the-seashore look. At the moment though, it looks more 
> like the master bedroom in the Brady Bunch--you know, 70's sky blue? 
> Why do they never look like the picture?!? 

Now, Jen, tell us.  Did you remove the bathroom fixtures or did you
just paint around them?  :-D

> I don't care, though--all the tape is up and the corners painted so 
> there's no turning back :).  Jen

As for whether you can change the color, I've painted my dining room 
. . .  

<counts on fingers>

*four* times, trying to get the color dark enough.  And it's *still*
not right.
 

Cindy -- who is going to *freak out* if she starts having trouble
keeping her eyes open, and whose sister-in-law bought a house, signed
the papers, and only then noticed that the prior owners had painted
*around* their furniture instead of moving it and painting the whole wall