An inconvenient truth (concerning wallpaper)
Posted on July 15, 2007 @ 8:56 am
Maybe you’ve heard of efforts by companies like Dell Computers to reduce their carbon footprint — for instance, planting trees to offset the environmental effects of their CO2 emissions. Well, after spending all day yesterday stripping the walls in our living room, I think they should do the same thing with wallpaper. For every square foot of tacky, difficult-to-remove wallpaper someone is just dying to paste up, he or she should be required to strip the same square footage of unwanted wallpaper from someone else’s home.* By reducing what I call our “wallpaper footprint,” we can make the move toward net-zero wallpapering projects in the short term and hopefully eliminate the use of wallpaper altogether in the long run.
So, take heart! If we all work together, we can overcome the ever-present threat of bad wallpaper in our lifetime.
* Yes, that seashell border you’re thinking about hanging in the guest bathroom counts!
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As a painter, I’ve done lots of bad wallpaper removal. GOD, people have bad taste. Paint is much easier to cover, people. So hire me!
I totally agree. Wallpaper is pretty crazily evil. Paint is indeed much easier to cover, and hey, you can easily paint on a unique design that no one else has!