Josh, it wasn’t a rental, but a coop, or they wouldn’t have been able to. (or to do the dodgy plumbing, heating, and electrical things they did either, alas).

Flowers, huh? That was nice of your parents…

Ooh–Bring It On! Such a great movie. I need to rent it again.

Andrewn: You need to check out the blog rules.

Jackie M: So let me get this straight. You’re decorating your home to suit your dog?

Which is all lovely fun for the rest of us, let me tell you.

Bring it on is a movie starring kirsten dunst and eliza dushku and gabrielle union and jesse bradford. it’s about cheerleading. it’s amazing.

my rental apartment has testured ceilings, wall to wall carpeting, metal blinds and lineoleum. it also has gold-flecked cabinetry. it’s ridiculous.

I love carpets, though. we can’t all have hardwood floors.

I hate the 70′s, and carpet. I don’t know why so many people put carpets in! Also, ugly pictures. That seem stupid but i know loads of people who put in pic that you literally barf whenever you see it.

I’m a first-timer at this blog so…anyway, I saw the rules and it said you can’t bad mouth bring it on!…what is that? Is it a book? I’ve read a book with the same title. A manga, actually, no-refrase that, manhwa. i don’t like people who don’t know the difference between the two and use them incorrectly. Anyway, is it that book? because then, I love it! lol

We ended up with a popcorn textured ceiling instead, almost as bad for cleaning, plus it contains asbestos. The 70′s were an interior decorating nightmare. What were they thinking?

Before I was born my parents decorated my bedroom with wallpaper covered in small flowers, not knowing whether I would be a boy or a girl. Unfortunately that wallpaper stayed on my walls until I changed bedrooms at 17. Wallpaper. Is. Evil. So are parents too lazy to remove it.

It was exactly as hideous as you can imagine.

Needless to say, I spent the first weekend scraping wallpaper and pulling up carpet… There’s still some in the bedroom as well, alas.

Be careful, Robin L, one more outburst like that and it’s strikeout time. The blog overlord has spoken.

And lets not forget flocked wall paper and those gold-veined mirrors.

Americans like La-z-boy chairs because they are butt ugly and comfortable. Every household I know that has one hides it in a back room, under several throw-rugs, and uses it for the idle watching of television.

John, I feel your pain. The not-undoable-ness of it is the real trouble. (Even ugly wallpaper comes off with some good ammonia and elbow grease!)

And you just hit on something that annoys me to no end – any item that’s been in the home of a heavy smoker. I work in the computer industry and there’s nothing worse than getting a system from a customer who smokes heavily. You can smell it before you even open the shipping box. Gross.

Hmm…how do I explain La-Z-Boys without sounding like a complete snob? I’m not sure I can. Okay, the things are comfy, I’ll give them that. But I’m with you on their decorative value. I wouldn’t have one if it was given to me. It’s not impossible to find extremely comfortable chairs that are less tacky, but they’re not cheap either. And I suppose that’s the reason they’re so popular…especially in trailer parks.

the absolutely most awful thing that you get rather a lot of here in seventies-redone houses is spachtelputz: thick swirls of plaster on the walls that all sorts of dust & dirt & spiderwebs accumulate on. particularly lovely textures & colours in the houses of heavy smokers. and you will cut your hands/head/other skin on it when you accidentally, um, fall against it, because it’s hard as nails, too.

and can i ask what it is with the american people and really large la-z-boy style chairs? those are hideous!

Instead, I’m writing a really ranty political book.

My interior decorating hate is reserved for “textured” walls — anything where you painted the pattern on, or the wallpaper is not flat, needs to be burned toot sweet. I do not want to lean against a wall and get weird pattern-y imprints on my shoulder, thanks.