Vintage wallpaper — Retro Renovation reader favorites
Mid Mod Pam on Apr 23 2008 at 8:01 am | Filed under: Reader homes, wallpaper
Last Saturday I invited readers to help wallpaper the world by sending in images of their favorite vintage wallpapers. We had three contributors — all wonderful examples and stories.
From Sumac Sue:
Hi. I was looking for a kitchen wallpaper that featured coffee pots, and I stumbled onto this one. I can’t imagine using it in my kitchen, although it does have a big blue coffee pot warming by the campfire! This paper would be great in a child’s room, or maybe in the den of someone who lives in cattle country.
There are several reasons I love this wallpaper — the scenes really seem to tell a story, and not just serve as a design. There’s a lot to stir up the imagination — cowboys, cattle, horses, a campfire scene complete with a fellow playing a harmonica. And the colors are gorgeous — just look at those cacti!
Makes me want to dust off the Louis L’Amour novels!
I found some other more conventional papers with coffee pots, but none that really wowed me like this paper does. We call our place the Coffee Pot Ranch, because we drink a lot of coffee, but, I don’t know if I want to be quite so literal about it by using cowboy wallpaper!
From Jason, it’s flamingos after dark –
This is my favorite wallpaper from Rosie’s. It’s so kitschy! I love flamingos and tropical places. I love the colors, although I have a feeling it would really darken the room too much. But I may just have to find a reason to “need” some. It would look great in a bathroom with pink and black tile. - Jason
Thank you, Jason, and write more often!
And from Portland Amy:
I thought this would take hours but I quickly found the exact same wallpaper that covered my Grandmother’s master bathroom. I would spend hours in that huge bathroom perched on her red velvet vanity stool surrounded by this flocked goodness. Some days I was a movie star, others I was a princess. If only I had an extra 350 bucks lying around.
Yup, Amy Sue. That about sums it up for all of us. Thanks, everyone, for playing!
The last flocked wallpaper featured , brought flooding memories back. My mum & dad had this wallpaper in their bedroom but in gold & I remeber as a child sitting there & stroking it! The texture was so soft. Thanks for sharing Amy, it’s so funny how little things like this spark the memory banks of things long forgotten! x
amy, what website did you find that paper? that is the exact paper my grandmother had in her master bed except hers was blue. i loved the velvety touch that the design had to it
Hi Samantha. In case Amy doesn’t see your question right away - she found this paper at RosiesVintageWallpaper. (You can scroll over the photo and see it in the name of the file.)