Say NO To Wallpaper

Dear Previous Homeowner,

What were you thinking?

What were you thinking when you decided it would be a good idea to wallpaper the three foot wide hallway in what is now my mobile home? Were you having an identity crisis and it seemed like a good idea to put up dark green, textured, vinyl wallpaper and a patterned, floral border over vinyl clad wall board?

Or perhaps you were just craving a change? At the time, did it it seem like a brilliant solution to glue the seams down with carpenters' glue rather than to get a new haircut or a new color of nail polish?

Was Mercury in retrograde? Was it a blue moon? Were you abducted by aliens?

Please people, if you are contemplating wallpaper as a possible decorating choice, stop...shake your head... pour yourself another glass of wine and step away from the wallpaper sample books.

All of you that are guilty of this debasement of walls, you know darn well that when you sell your house the person who inherits your questionable decorating choice will be left with the tedious task of stripping off the paper. Weeks and weeks of scraping and sanding and more scrapping. Please don't open yourself up to bad decorating karma because it will come back around.

Unless you have a decorator and an income to hire workers to strip of the hideous paper when you get tired of it just SAY NO TO WALLPAPER!!!