apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

umm. not so much.

Tacky. No pun intended.

I did that on the side of the refrigerator once, and I was so-o-o-o-o sorry.

i used to so this when i was a kid on my bedroom door :)

then i spent 2 days scrubbing trying to get all the stickers off when i was a teenager :(

artistic? Dirty...childish...just yuck. With all the stickers that are curled up and coming off, she's probably got em all over the floor too..

I hope she owns, or does a very thorough cleaning job when her lease is up. :-(

Ewww.

Artistic? Not really.

Disgusting and horrifying like many other commenters imagine? Not that either. I find it charming, actually, and think that if the stickers were more neatly arranged it might be attractive.

I have a "Honey CRIPS" sticker on my fridge---a typo from a Honeycrisp apple a few years ago that I found hilarious and still laugh at when I notice it on the freezer handle.

Very look-I'm-a-first-year-student-in-my-first-apartment-and-I-can-make-an-original-decoration-with-junk-ish.

We need to stop justifying the ugly products of the best of intentions by calling it ironic. Yes it's ironic. No, that's not a virtue. How about sincerity? Have we no value for sincerity? Do we not care for things sincerely good? The irony of putting fruit stickers on walls is ironic, but it is sincerely ugly.

looks like something a crack head would do when they're strung out.

Ya, I am 35 and my Mom still can't get all the sticky crap off my old bedroom door!

if the person enjoys doing it, and won't mind eventually cleaning it...to each their own.

i'm surprised no one has yet said... at least they aren't going into the landfill.

Why is everyone being so negative. Yes, this may not be the most attractive thing ever, but I actually save all my fruit stickers too. Mine go on the calendar that lives in the kitchen, not on the cabinet. I think it's an interesting way to visually see what fruit me and my housemates are eating each month. Plus I think fruit stickers are interesting- here are these tiny things no one really ever pays much attention to, but they are designed by someone and are everywhere.

I do this and mine is much denser and covers the inside doors and wall of the cabinets. I get a little zing of satisfaction as I stick them on and accumulate each piece of produce, each passing moment. It is some deeply ingrained hording behavior. I have a very early memory of lining up the staples, from each bag of doughnuts I ate while watching cartoons, into a row on the fireplace screen. It pleased me that they fit so nicely and they were a secret I made. My mom glimpsed them while she was vacumning and they were instantly gone. My daughter took a picture of the sticker mass (or mess) and when I saw it on the computer I thought wow,I love that color jumble. Then I recognized the stickers.

My old roommate used to stick fruit stickers on the outside of our cabinets and it drove me nuts. Then I'd have to stand there and pick them off so I had the slightest chance of getting my deposit back on the place.

bad habits follow use down through the years. I guess I could save used band-aids to remind me of every cut I ever had, on the back of the bathroom door! :-(

"Why is everyone being so negative"

Because the tag line of this blog is "saving the world, one room at a time" and not "destroying the world with gaudy novelties and tacky/filthy decor" that is why

I am all about personal choices and personal style but something like this should never, ever in a million years be labelled as "artistic", I would not call it artistic not even if David Byrne were the one making this, I wonder if in such blunt statements like those the "we" should be dropped. Because, are you all bloggers backing this up? Eeek.

I thought only my Mom and I did that? Yay for the fruit sticker collection!

hmmmm @roycethespaceman
your calendar idea sounds interesting and even informative but stickers on the back of a door just seems tacky, dirty and pain once you move.

my little girl did this unknowingly to me under are bar/counter for years. not until we did a full kitchen remodel did i see her "artwork" it was pretty funny. I would say there was a good 3 years of fruit stickers under there.

Pulease.

I think it's hideous, but hey! If you covered the door with something you could removed later, and then collaged the surface with the stickers, I could almost see it. A Chuck Close homage, done with fruit stickers, maybe. But this looks random and bereft of purpose, to quote Pauline Kael.

These posts make me wonder about the taste level at AT.

The only way I would do something like this is if I composed the colors into some sort of complex mosaic pattern... then this *could* work!

^Palmetto just said that, sorry...

My mom and I have a little fruit sticker collection going. It just kind of happened when we lived in our old apartment and we started again when we moved. It wasn't hard to peel off at all. I don't really see what harm this collection is doing. It's on the inside of the cabinet so I doubt it's messing with the decor of her kitchen unless she leaves the door open all the time. It's not artistic, but I don't understand the horrified reactions.

Palmetto, I also have been wondering about the taste level lately at AT! When I first logged on about a year ago the site was so classy with tons of variety and immensely interesting with so many inspiring ideas...now it just seems to be getting crass, being completely stuck in midcentury modern (you don't have that Eames or Saarinem chair that everyone else has? How unoriginal!) or 'trash' decorating. There doesn't seem to be anything inbetween.

And BTW, if you really MUST have your icky fruit stickers, at least make an artpiece of them...stick them to a board and frame it. Lots of stuff can pass for art if it's framed well.

I was surprised by the entry, but not at all by the snotty comments. My Mom is still upset by the stickers we stuck on our doors as kids. This is more my style than a lot of things I read here.

(BTW - Goo Be Gone will fix it all when the time comes to move)