This evening in the midst of a conversation with Rochelle, I stumbled across a memory that had long been buried in the farthest back recesses of my mind. Hidden in the far left corner under piles of old papers, childhood toys, layers of dust, and cobwebs was a beautiful memory. I will share it with you. Consider this my late-Monday night gift to you.
At some point when we lived together, we decided that we really detested the color of the vinyl on the kitchen floor. It was a lovely combination of mustard yellow and orange that really fit quite nicely with the whole 70s domestic look we had going between the floor, the hand-me-down dishes, the ugly couch, and the brown shag carpet. During some conversation we came up with a solution, at least for the kitchen flooring.
We decided that a perfect fix for the ugly floor would be to cover it with a patterned contact paper, like the stuff you would use to line drawers and shelves. It would be so simple and inexpensive. We would only need a roll or two, less than 5 minutes, and voilà -- shiny new floor!
I'm not sure that this idea ever came to fruition. I vaguely recall determining that the floor might end up being too slippery with the contact paper on it. Whatever actually deterred our innovative home decorating solution, it's probably good that this particular "genius" idea of ours was never fully implemented :)
3 comments:
They now make special peel'n'stick floor tiles. You should've sold the idea back then - you'd be millionaires now. :)
I can't believe other manufacturers haven't come up with this clever solution to ugly floors!
hm, it is probably a good thing this idea was never realized, it may have been a disaster.
steph
Post a Comment