The problem with wallpapering is knowing when to stop. It comes on those big rolls, you’ve been inhaling paste fumes, maybe your mind is wandering… next thing you know you’ve covered the walls and the bed and you have to run get a box cutter to free the cat. Sorry, kitty!
(Found by Morgan.)
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Such glory.
But, will the bed spread be sold with the house? I just can’t imagine my black and red Asian print in here.
AHHH! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME IMAGINE THAT!!?!
The wallpaper? The wallpaper? Forget the wallpaper!!! Doesn’t anyone see that giant yellow glowing ORB in the room??? To borrow a quote from my favorite Ghosbuster Ray Stantz, “..your girlfriend, lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central.”*
*I refuse to believe that’s a hideous 80s light fixture
My first thought was, “They didn’t match the stripes!” The obsessive compulsive Monk inside me would have moved the bed over four inches to the left. “Ah, that’s better.”
That was my first thought too.
It just looks extra wrong not lined up.
OMG…you’re so right!!! If they would only move it over to the left 4 inches all would be right with the world and we’d finally have world peace.
If only it was that easy MS.
I bet if you stand right exactly at the middle of the foot of the bed it all lines up.
Because that’s the kind of people that do that sort of thing.
In relooking, I’ll bet you’re exactly right!!!
I am the type of person who would line it up, however, I am [b]not[/b] the type of person to match my bed coverings to my wallpaper in such a dramatic way.
You’ll thank me later.
That was my first thought too! After the effort of all that matching, they could have at least put the stripes in the right place!
Me too – It would take me 25 minutes every morning to make my bed! totally not the house for me!
Aii yi yi!!!
Imagine coming home after a couple of drinks. You try to climb into bed and end up climbing the walls.
hahahahaha! That is so funny. …that or you’d puke your guts out. ahahahhahahaha!
The house is only 996 square feet. Maybe they were trying to make the room look spacious? not nauseous? and is that a white tile floor?
“Only”? My house is 811 square feet and it’s plenty big for anyone.
I always wonder how Americans can stand living in barns, let alone how they can afford to heat and cool them.
Our house is about 1800 sf and I think it is small. We do have a HUGE kitchen but our other rooms are small. My husband has a home office which takes up 1 of the 4 bedrooms and I have 2 kids. We homeschool as well so we are all at home everyday. I can’t imagine living anywhere smaller. Our last house was 3000sf so this is small too me.
“It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! … But there is something else about that paper – the smell! … The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell.”
That’s my first ever encounter with Charlotte Perkins Gilman in blog comments. High point for the day!
(From “The Yellow Wallpaper,” famous short story about a woman who goes CRAZY after being locked in a room with eerily similar wallpaper. Squinting at the photo, I can empathise.)
Oh gosh yes. That was my first thought on seeing this image, too. I read that story in 10th grade and it scared the living daylights out of me.
As a confirmed do-it-yourself-er I think this photo shows great restraint. You can easily cover the lamp shades with wallpaper and the light switchplates (they sell a kit for that – just add your own –wait for it—wallpaper). That white little end table can be accented with rectangular cut outs of wallpaper – very classy. And what looks like a white painted wood floor can be painted in stripes to complement the wallpaper. I agree with the first poster, that light fixture in the ceiling has got to go – you can’t successfully put wallpaper on that curved surface.
@Teresa Isn’t lined up! Isn’t lined up! Make it match, Mommy! Waah!
Damn, this picture is straight out of the classic “Interior Desecrators” website! The color, the wallpaper running into the bed, the style of the lamps, we’re talking Better Homes and Gardens, 1974.
more 1989 if you ask me…
The master bath has a scrap of that same print as a window covering. Ahh, for the love of yellow.
Sadly this reminds me of the master bedroom of a home I bought in 2005. It was like Laura Ashley had thrown up all over the place.
After that, I vowed never to buy a home with wallpaper.
Reminds me of the British show Keeping Up Appearances. Hyacinth’s bedroom wallpaper, bed set, and pajamas all matched. Always loved that detail.
Reminds me of Pushing Daisies! http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/la/111708_olive2.jpg
I have a desperate urge to see the curtains in that room.
So, they covered the walls in fabric? Or found fabric to match the wallpaper?
It’s a cute house, very narrow, but really quite nice. Yellow enthusiasts live there, clearly.
In the world that was the late 80′s early 90′s you could buy everything to match i.e. wallpaper, curtains, bedspread. It was a scary time and it scared a lot of children.
Our dining room had matching drapes and wallpaper before we redid it (we did not put up the wallpaper OR the drapes, we bought the house with them though). Very…um…lovely?? I will NEVER ever buy another house with wallpaper. If it has wallpaper, I won’t even look at it in the future. That is how much I hate wallpaper.
And wallpaper that matches the drapes is even worse.
omg did you see the mustard splashed kitchen and bathroom? eeek
I don’t mind the yellow walls in those rooms. I guess I like yellow. The shade seems fine to me.
Jeez, I go away for a few days, and ya go and fancy up the blog! ;P
I was gonna say it reminded me of Keeping Up Appearances, but Christina beat me to it.
And after 3 washes, the bedspread colors have faded and not the wall.
And it’s just awful.
I mean more awful.
Who knew yellow came in so many different shades!
I moved into a house with hideous wide green and white vertical stripes and it was so bad my boyfriend walked into the room and was hit by a migraine. And the yellow here is actually WORSE. Oh my.
Just noticed the lamp “tables” look suspiciously like cardboard boxes with ripped sheets tossed over them.
When they lost the will to MAKE IT LINE UP! they just lost it.
“The call me mellow yellow, quite rightly!”
Oh how I wish I had this listing, let me count the ways.
This has Hildi Santos-Thomas written all over it!
(btw, love the Charlotte Perkins-Gilman reference! Awesome!)
Maybe the weather there is so grey and gloomy that they resorted to this in defense of their sanity? Eek!
Yes, I would have covered the lampshades, too.
When Sammy put the paper on the wall/ he put the parlor paper in the hall/
He papered up the stairs/ he papered up the chairs/ he even put a border on Grandma’s shawl.
When Sammy put the paper on the wall/ he poured a pot of paste upon us all/
Now we’re all stuck together/ like birds of a feather/ ’cause Sammy put the paper on the wall!