[quote=eavesdropper][quote=bearishgurl] eavesdropper, I have that exact same light in my circa 1993 kitchen today, lol! [/quote]
BG, I knew you were a woman of taste and refinement!
I had one of those in my last house also. Contractor choice in my husband’s house (built in 1997), and he could never understand why I hated the thing (I think that guys just have a love thing going with fluorescent lights, period.) Ours was about 60 inches long, and it always reminded me of a lid to a casket. Naturally, I lived with it for years, and didn’t get around to replacing it until we put our house on the market in early ’08.
[quote=bearishgurl] Lol, UCGal, my mom chose the “farm scene” wallpaper and I had to do the papering. Had to make sure each corner of her “farm-sized” 11’x22′ kitchen was properly plumb-bobbed, or the cows’ udders, chicken heads and rooster craws would run north, straight up the wall! I did the bottom half of her kitchen wall in coordinating stripes to match her 7 pc. vinyl dinette set! [/quote]
BG, you have only yourself to blame for that day of hell! Haven’t you ever heard of “proper prior preparation”?
Whenever I agreed to do a wallpapering job for my mother, I made sure that I made a big plate of double chocolate hash brownies the night before. That way I didn’t have to worry about any of that plumb-line b.s. Halfway into the second brownie, Mom would channel Salvador Dali, and the wallpapering was done in a flash. I’d always see her looking at it, with a puzzled expression, but somewhere in the deep recesses of her brain, she knew that she shared responsibility for the mismatched cows’ udders, perpendicular stripes, etc., etc.[/quote]
Lol, eavesdropper, my mom’s house was located in Denver, CO and I did not learn of the “hash brownie recipe” you describe here until I visted my “recently relocated” friends in Humboldt County, CA, a few years later. Alas, it was too late, the wallpaper had already been hung and my mom was the beneficiary of scientifically-placed cow’s udders and pig’s snouts. It is what it is. Subject house has long been sold (due to mom’s untimely death >15 yrs ago) and I am in hopes that its owners (still the same ones) have elected to repaper or retexture the kitchen walls to their liking.
