[Sidney Lanier]

I really enjoyed wallpapering for many years and frankly did it fairly well (mostly...). Nowadays I prefer the paint colors that we selected not only at our home in TV but also the historic colors we recently redid our Hudson Valley home after the flood took out our whole first floor. My funniest wallpaper story was being asked to do the kitchen in my brother's and sister-in-law's house. My brother could do--and did--absolutely everything (an engineering type) in their house--even built their first color TV and gave circuitry improvements to the company that had manufactured the kit!--but he couldn't do wallpapering. They had a floral pattern above the chair rail and a geometric pattern below the rail and on the soffits. The paper was up for some 15 years until she decided to replace it (my brother had died...), and it wasn't until that point that we realized that one of the geometric sections was upside down in relation to the other. Imagine, 15 years! She hired someone to do it that time, my having given up that particular joy....