Wall Paper Borders

Wall paper has always had a strange effect on my eyes. I am sure that I'm not the only one who has felt this way. At first, the new designs are pleasant. You can stare at them for hours, in fact. Every time you looked at the wall, instead of a blank and boring canvas, there is a soothing repeated design. Maybe it is flowers, seashells, stars, or something else entirely. Whatever it is, it makes you feel safe and comfortable. You can look at it and look at it, and it is always the same. Soon, however, it becomes less pleasant. After a while, wallpaper starts to drive me crazy with its uniformity.

Wall paper borders, the solution to this problem, didn't occur to me until one of my children had an accident. It involved grubby hands, paint, and the wall. Needless to say, it was not pleasant. I did not have the time to put up new wallpaper for a while, so it just had to stay there. But I noticed that with the smudge on the wall, the wallpaper wasn't so irritatingly uniform. That is when I realized that a wall paper border would lighten my mood. Soon, I was putting up wall paper borders in every room in the house.

I even put my son's desire to smudge the walls to work in designing one of the wall paper borders. I made my own wall paper border out of butcher block paper. He could do anything he wanted to it. He could draw on it, color it, smear paint on it, put dirt it on it – I didn't care. As long as he left the wall alone, the wall paper borders in his room could look any way that he wanted. This was a great compromise. It let him express himself in his bedroom décor while allowing me to have a house that looked reasonable. All in all, it was a good deal for everyone.

My favorite wall paper borders, however, were a bit more refined. I loved my sons drawings, but I loved the sea shell wall paper borders in my bedroom even more. You see, I have always been a big fan of the sea. Having nautical wallpaper would be a little tacky. It seems over the top. I like my wallpaper to be understated. But seashell wall paper borders gave me just the right touch of what I was looking for.