apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

It might be cool in a powder room or something but it kind of reminds me of movies where the serial killer type has the creepy room with newspaper clippings covering the whole room. eek

It definitely works on the walls of the depression era shacks in Appalachia that I've seen pictures of.

Those newspapers would yellow in no time, and stop looking good in that black and white room.

Interesting for sure. But also would eventually get yellowed, smudged (don't lean against that wall!) and flakey.

My grandfather built the house my mother grew up in during the Depression. My grandmother decorated the best she could. SO wish I had some of what was there now! My sister and I bunked in the bedroom with POSTCARDS FOR WALLPAPER. Most were personal photos, many were hand-painted.

It's too bad this wasn't presented as an Ikea product. I'm sure everyone would go nuts for it then. :-p

The nice thing about this is that, if the paper yellows or crumbles, it's pretty easy (and cheap) to replace.

When I moved into my first place I tore down the Disney Babies wallpaper in my room and used 2 and a half Goodwill bibles worth of paper wheat-pasted to my walls. Total cost $10. I left some of the edges free to curl and blow in the breeze of my fan.

I also hilighted passages for when I turned on the blacklight.

Yes I was under 21 back then but it still looked cool. Like the walls were breathing...but thats another story.

Coming soon on AT: The new fad--Wallpaper as wallpaper!

Hildi Santo-Tomas did this on Trading Spaces years ago. Didn't like it then . . . don't like it now.

My idol Loretta Lynn was named because the walls of her mother's bedroom were covered in newspapers and while pregnant she'd read the walls and saw articles about Loretta Young and fell in love with the name. So this trend is borrowed from people who lived in shacks without running water or electricity. How chic.

I don't see the appeal. That's my first reaction. I don't get the statement, the irony, the mock ingenuity, but most of all, the look. This looks like yuck. Even in a shack, how is this more decorative than the walls, even cruddy walls?