Wallpaper is Making a Comeback!
I remember as a child, all the rooms in our house were wallpapered. When the time came to redecorate (that is, when mum told dad to redecorate) there was such a hullaballoo over getting the wallpaper off the walls and hanging the new wallpaper. But the best bit was picking the wallpaper for the walls to be redone. I loved going to the wallpaper shops and looking at all the rolls, and at the swatches of them. The colours and textures were delicious; some were thick and fuzzy, some were light and airy, but all were lush and could change the entire feel of a room. We spent weekends stripping the walls and cleaning off the glue, before placing the new rolls in the long buckets of water so the glue would moisten and help the paper stick to the walls.