Today I was working in Clifton NJ. The lady said that she literally shopped two eight hour days to find exactly the wallpaper she was looking for. Wow,what stamina.
I have found that spending more than an hour flipping through wall covering sample books is counter productive.
It is taxing enough to pick out a 1.5 square foot sample of any pattern and try to visualize what it will look like in your house. But this process of visualization really saps your mental reserves. Trying this mental process repeatedly can only lead to pattern burnout--that look of listlessness that usually appears on the shoppers face after brain draining in this way. Coffee may help but I have found the best way to shop for wall coverings is to drop in to a store and look for 15 minutes only. If anything strikes me and my wife together I make a note of the book and page number. We return to the store several days later and get that book first thing to see if the sample still appeals to us. Who knows, maybe I liked the red last week because I wanted to strangle a particularly troublesome decorator...maybe my wife wanted to strangle me that day. Then we search for another 15 minutes again and leave the store only to repeat this shopping process the next time. We do this until we keep coming back to the same pattern and finally make a decision.
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