<p>Ha!!!^^^Thanks for the much needed chuckle today.</p>
<p>VeryHappy you made me very happy…that was classic.</p>
<p>I am sure it didn’t happen in the 70’s my folks has flocked foil…does anyone else remember that? Red on gold…I am cringing with the thought! Hubby’s folks had bamboo wallpaper!</p>
<p>Do I remember??? I had to remove it from the powder room!</p>
<p>Flocked foil? That would have been the second of three wall paper layers removed from the master bathroom a few years ago, circa 1975?</p>
<p>The flocked foil reminds me of wallpaper at the house I grew up in. It matched the orange-red shag carpet.</p>
<p>We thought about putting up some grasscloth wallpaper, but I’ll bet that stuff is no picnic to get down. Plus I don’t think it’s appropriate for a bathroom; even a powder room probably gets some humidity, and I doubt it’s very cleanable.</p>
<p>I’ll meet you and raise you: we had that red/orange shag carpet in the kitchen of this house when we moved in!</p>
<p>Which one, please oh please don’t say the foil…I think I was ten, I still can remember the feeling on my hands, we also had brown kitchen appliances, and our bathroom had the classified ads wallpaper(never read any books in my room, but I did read in my house LOL). My DH’s parents had huge blue flowers with lime green accents in their kitchen…can anyone beat that?</p>
<p>We had the red and orange shag with the red flocked foil!!</p>
<p>Mafool this raise can only count if you moved in the last 5 yrs.</p>
<p>My Aunt died 3 yrs ago and still had that carpet, but raise you one she had the fake brick wallpaper in the kitchen too! She also had the avocado rotary phone</p>
<p>nope, sorry. But does it count that the kitchen had all of the following:</p>
<p>-wall to wall shag carpet
-red paisley wall paper
-Matching ceiling to floor lined draperies
-Ken Brick (is that right? fake brick veneer that caught all the grease) on the walls above the counters
-tiny fake fireplace (light bulb and cellophane) covered by a tiny chain-mail fireplace curtain
-Dark, fake beams (polyurethane) on the ceiling
-burlap on the ceiling between the beams</p>
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<p>mafool, you win!</p>
<p>victory lap!!!..hold on…out of breath…</p>
<p>I’ll tell you about the rest of the house another time!</p>
<p>OMG your are lying…or did you buy my aunt’s house…she had everything except the burlap ceiling. Her basement had the panelled walls, built in bar and my favorite…white, orange, & yellow vinyl covered cushions for the built in panel seats…drop ceiling included! Don’t forget the white and aqua bath with the fake maple cabines (that in the center has something like a door knocker)…Of course over the sink she had all of the mugs that have faces of famous people…best yet…she smoked over a pack a day for 70 yrs…(she was 88 when she died) walls weren’t painted for the last 25, and she had the shag in every room(not enough febreze in the world)…sorry auntie for slamming you…I always loved you (don’t need her to strike me dead as I type)</p>
<p>I got one for you. H and I went to an open house a few years back. The house looked pretty good from the outside, very elegant section of town. The basement was a scream. Tile floor and each separate tile contained a picture of a cocktail - martinis, margaritas, maitais, etc. Needless to say there was quite a wet bar - lots of glass with tropical etchings. And of course one of those strobe lights. Circular couch covered in an animal print and with built-in ashtrays. Very rat pack.</p>
<p>Mafool, I’m going to send you the bill for the surgery I’ll need after gouging my eyes out so I don’t accidentally see something like that.</p>
<p>Before we put our previous house on the market, I went to the local Porter paint store (great paint BTW) and asked them for samples of the two most common beiges used in this area. We chose one and also used tinted Blank-it primer for the first coat. We had the painter guy paint over:</p>
<p>*a sunshine yellow kitchen and hallway
*a peachy pink formal living room
*a dusty green two-story foyer
*D1’s room with two light green walls and two light purple walls
*D2’s room that was yellow on the top half, pink on the bottom and a wallpaper border in between</p>
<p>The realtor almost cried with happiness. She let us keep the two-toned blue dining room with the matching damask drapes.</p>
<p>Once the house was beige it was much easier to leave because it didn’t feel like our house.</p>
<p>I tried to live with neutrals at the next house for a few months but couldn’t take it. I called the painter guy and we did the kitchen, foyer, and family room (walls and ceiling) in a yellow that was supposed to be sunshine but is closer to mango. It is wonderfully cheerful. The small front parlor is deep red on top of white chair railing and wainscoating.</p>
<p>D1 walked in after it was done and said, “Now it feels like home.” :)</p>
<p>The kiddos in this house have had free reign over their bedrooms, too. We have one periwinkle and blue room, one seriously dark forest green room and one is lollipop orange (like the orange of a Tootsie pop). Orange is getting tired of his-may take a couple of layers of primer to tone that one down. We are not looking to sell anytime soon!</p>
<p>Now back to wrestling with my pocket door. This thread has totally inspired me to finish off a long stalled project.</p>
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<p>mafool, I quoted this before I got to yours, but I think I can match it. When we bought our house (exterior - dutch colonial, really cute, it looks like a barn) the interior had:</p>
<p>the flocked metallic wallpaper on the ceiling in the living room; mind you, this was a TWO story tall ceiling, at least 30 feet high (think Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel putting that paper up), with mirrored walls (smoky of course) and dark red carpeting covering up beautiful REAL brick floors. The lighting was this enormous Spanish Galleon type, black wrought iron thing, hanging on a chain amongst the fake dark brown beams 1/2 way down the ceiling. Bordello all the way.</p>
<p>Then there was wall paper EVERYWHERE! In the kitchen, there was dark red wallpaper with little sunflowers on it on every wall and ceiling. The powder room had dark blue paper with flowers on it on the walls and ceiling. All the other rooms were papered in florals.</p>
<p>The family room had red carpeting 1/2 way up the walls!!! and dark panelling above that. YUCK!</p>
<p>How we could see beyond ALL that was a mystery, but we’ve lovingly turned it into what it is today and have been there 22 years!</p>
<p>ag54-- Sounds horrendous. How did you get all that wallpaper off?!</p>
<p>is color a regional thing?? my home is reds and yellows…I put up blue wallpaper in the foyer because a decorator said I had too much red…husband and kids all said, “why didn’t you use red?”</p>
<p>Our house had bubble gum pink wall to wall carpet stained and stinking of cat pee in every room of the house except the kitchen. (That was dead white tile - shows every speck of dirt and is deadly slippery when wet.) The walls were bubble gum pink except the ones that were that fake cheapo paneling. The drapes were pink with pink sheers and puffy pink valances. The bathroom was pink tiles with black trim. There were some gold trimmed rectangles in the top half the dining room walls. Luckily there was quite a nice house hiding under all the pink.</p>