Wallpaper Woes

When I took you on a tour of the office last week, I mentioned that The First Cousin and I are trying to get the wallpaper in the office replaced. Who knew it was going to be such an ordeal?

We want to keep the style congruent with what Grandma would have liked on her walls. It doesn't have to be an exact replica of what's there now, but from that era and in that style. The First Cousin checked out Home Depot and could find nothing even remotely "old-fashioned" even though the old is coming back into style today. No problem, I assured her; we only moved in 5 years ago, I'm sure the places I used to research my wallpaper can help us. I can't remember the name of this great small place, but I know right where it is, so follow me. Off we go to my great place, only to find it gone, replaced by a mattress store. Drat! Okay, well, Pat's Color Wheel in Mesa always had some good variety, so we head down the street to that establishment. To my relief, it still exists, though "Pat" is gone - and so is the wallpaper. This is becoming a comedy of errors!

Okay, I think; I'll call the guy who installed my wallpaper; I need a quote for this job anyway, and he can tell me where to go to find some samples. He suggests The Great Indoors. Of course, I exclaim to myself, they have a TON of books to look through! I head out to the nearest one, walking straight back to where I remember their wallpaper/paint section to be, and I find - a huge empty section with signs saying pardon our clutter we're redoing this area and don't even THINK about looking for wallpaper here! Okay, the signs didn't say that last part, but when I asked the clerk, she replied brightly, "Oh yes, we're discontinuing our wallpaper." She suggested the paint store down the road, but at this point I already knew what I was going to find.
And I was right. Lots of paint. No wallpaper. The helpful paint clerk suggested a place near Fiesta Mall called Wallpaper To Go. I was tired and cranky by now, and didn't feel like driving. I headed for the internet instead; there's an answer for anything there.

On the internet, I found many lovely wallpapers for my computer screen, including sports logos. In fact, Google's hits for electronic wallpaper so outnumbered the links to wall wallpaper that by the time I started to understand that I really would have to drive a lot - probably to Scottsdale or Ahwatukee - and I had spent way too much time looking at free and not free downloads to beautify my computer screen, I was so tired of the subject that I had to just stop. Take a breath. And work on it another day.