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nostalgic touch Wallcoverings create
themselves - it's that easy. If
baths and kitchens have not
been papered in the past,
these designing men and
women are papering for a
brand new look, usually with
a pattern that's nostalgic and
reminiscent of their yester-
years.
Everything's nostalgia
today, including the home.
And everyone's glad about
the happy feeling it gies.
Nostalgia is the craze of
the day in movies, plays,
songs, even home furnish-
ings. Psychiatrists attrib-
ute the step back into time as
a desire to relive the happier
times, whether those days
were truly better or simply a
figment of memory.
Home furnishings prove
the wish to be more secure as
interior designers and their
clients agree on relax-
ing, softly colorful, even gay
surroundings. Wall-cover-
ings are especially important
as they greet a weary worker
coming home, let a
homemaker unwind before
dinner and cause a round of
smiles and laughs as a group
gathers in the family room.
Painted walls just won't do
it.
Nostalgia is the longing for
the things of the past, noted
when the first family
member goes away. Not too
surprisingly, the absent one
misses the wall-covering in
her room, the remembrance
of happy childhood days.
To the home designer, a
variety of swallcoverings in
the United-DeSoto collection
offers an opportu nity to
change the appearance of a
hallway or any room in the
house without investing in
expensive furniture. The
wallcovering, surrounding
the chick, sophisticated
furnishings, adds the soft,
subtle touch, blending the
colors and the textures of the
room into a new look. If the .
wallpaper is destined for a
room where fingerprints and
scuff marks are regular
happenings, a vinyl paper
takes to a dampened cloth or
sponge and the marks
disappear almost magically.
No s trong solutions or soaps
are required.
Nostalgia again enters the
world of home furnishings
when mother and daughter
get together to talk about
daughter's first home,
whether she's planning
marriage or a job in a distant
city. Daughter probably is
looking for some of her
earlier life - touches of the
furnishings of her room and
the rest of the house - and
the very modern convenien-
ces of today's world. She
easily could select some of
her old colors but in a new
flocked or striped or
combination wallpaper. In
her kitchen, no one•will bli nk
an eye if she uses the same
colors as in her mother's
kitchen, wallcovering and all.
Women involved in the
do-it-yourself thing are doing
it themselves when, it comes
to redesigning their rooms,
spending as little money as
possible since the days of
inflation are affecting
everyone. The same women
are "doing their own hair
and sewing their own
fashions - for fun and saving
money. These "home
decorators" are adding
happy touches to their
rooms, such as plants (both
hanging and standing), new
picture groupings including
unusual mirrors, and colorful
occasional furniture from
unfinished furniture shops.
Wallpapers fit nicely into
these rooms, bringing a soft,
restful and nostalgic touch to
the home, no matter how
young or old the occupants.
If the wallcovering is
prepasted, many home
designers are doing it
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menting other periods ,of
decor.
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