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I'm curious, in the recent wallpaper craze, has anyone used any wallpaper that's been easy-to-remove? I rent, but have wallpaper fantasies. My fantasy product is a paper that would be easily removable when I moved, but all I can think of are my experiences (read: nightmares) of trying to help people remove old wallpaper and the horrors of it all.

Can anyone please offer any suggestions for a sienna orange paint for a bedroom. I am looking for something with a bit of a glow but nothing glaring and too bold. We have tried Citron Paints (beautiful but the wrong shades) and some Sherwin Williams colors. We found a color in the Pottery Barn Bedrooms book that looks perfect but unfortunately, the book was published prior to when they started to list their colors.

thank you in advance for any suggestions!

Re: Wallpaper. I've seen people use fabric on their walls instead of actual paper. I don't know the specific technique used to apply it, but it's adhered with liquid starch rather than glue, and is apparently a cinch to peel off.

Also, Grace Bonney over at design*sponge mentioned planning to apply wallpaper to 8x4 ft. panels of foam core, and then attaching the panels to her wall.

Anyway, a couple of options that might be worth a try.

Good luck!

Leah

Speaking of wall paper, does anyone know of a good place to find wallpaper in the bay area? I'm looking for something textured (ie. grass-cloth or straw). I was going to check out Home Depot or the Design Expo.

To starch fabric to the walls, you just dip the fabric in starch so it's good and saturated, then smooth it onto the wall. I haven't done it myself, but I watched very carefully when Matt and Sherry did this on Room by Room.

Is anyone else noticing a real pattern with their own emotional reactions to Smallest, Coolest entries? So far, I'm a total sucker for anything in San Francisco with the typical 1920s detailing but a much tougher sell for 1950s houses and the Pacific Northwest. I feel like I've wandered into a Clare Cooper Marcus seminar on housing preferences as a mirror of self-image.