[Laurie2]

I know someone who was in the paint/wallpaper store business for his entire career.

He told me that when borders appeared and became so popular, he knew it would kill the wallpaper business. -- I am trying to remember when that Trojan Horse full of borders showed up in decorating. Seems like it was during the peach and teal era.

I have not used wallpaper since 1987 when we bought a house where we had to strip a big room. I remember rolling off blobs of glue the size of basketballs and swearing, "As Traditional Home magazine is my witness, I will NEVER have wallpaper again."

But. . .you know what...I just bought some brown towels. I have not bought brown towels since the earthtone era. Was that the early 80s?

So with decorating, we just never know what might start looking good to us again. (I digress. All the OP wanted was some DIY advice. Not a flashback to my decorating past.)