Every woman is hot on interior decoration, and I am not exception. When I rent the first apartment after I got my first job and moved out of the parents’ house, I was very passionate about the new life and tried my best to make my own first home look better. While I had many plans, the reality was that I just did not have enough budget to do any big project with the old shabby room. I called my best Susan, and asked her, “hey, what would you do if you had $100 to change a little shabby room?”
“Almost nothing,” she commented, “the most urgent should be making the wall look better. Living in a room with dirty wall would make you feel rather bad?”
Good idea, I murmured to myself, but that must take a lot of wall décor products, because the walls had been quite darkened by time. It felt like there were some clouds dotting the wall, only that these were kind of less pleasant than clouds should have been.
Apparently, only low-cost products and practical, easy-to-go plans were allowed, under such a budget. The extravagant hand-woven Belgian tapestries are my favorite, but I could not afford even the cheapest one. Well, I found a few nice printed gallery wraps and the reproductions of the world-famous Van Gogh, Picasso and oh, my favorite Monet and his Lotus Pond. Sounds good? No, you are a young girl, and you should try something dynamic and fashionable. Then I found the wall stickers. Great, they were the perfect things for me! The first wall sticker I bought featured a green tree- a rather big tree, with a flock of birds flapping around it.
After a few months, when I was tired of the tree, then, I changed it to Garfield, the fat, lazy and shred cat who was my idol at that time. Then, it was an artificial comic shadow, a huge butterfly, a blue mountain, etc. Changing the wall décor was perhaps the smartest way to make the room different, immediately getting myself into a fresh atmosphere.
It was just great fun to make change to the little room, refreshing myself after a dull long day. Living in that old apartment had made me quite good at decorating walls and lighting up a dark room (and mood). Three years ago I moved into my own house with my husband and two children. The new house is very spacious, with a wool tapestry hanging across the main wall of our parlor. We still had a lot of wall decals to decorate our house, here and there. The dynamics I could make out of them was what I liked best!
