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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes floral wall paper with large blooms is back on trend but it’s not the same look. I don’t have it but it’s usually done in a room with minimal other stuff.

I posted above describing my mother’s decorating. It wasn’t just the wallpaper, it was the couch, throw pillows, curtains and all the furniture. There had to be specific objects of decor on every table and there was an end table or side table next to every seat. A wall couldn’t be blank. There had to be a painting or print or a picture matt that picked an accent color.  It wasn’t just visually overwhelming but overly composed for no apparent purpose other than to display stuff that was acquired to be displayed.
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Some people do genuinely like that stuff. My (boomer - born 1946!) parents adored expensive glass. They'd visit Corning every few years and come home with beautiful vases, paperweights, sculptures, you name it. It's all in their curio cabinet - which however is a sleek light wood Danish design, not dark wood - and I have no idea what to do with all of it when my dad passes. I'm sure I'll keep a couple pieces that I particularly like, but I prefer paintings of trees and winter over glass and sculpture, so I won't have a use for most of them. Plus there have to be at least 50 pieces in there.

Other than the glass and curio cabinet my parents were not huge decorators, no throw pillows, sleek Danish couches. They did have curtains that were there when we moved into the house in 1989 and were never opened nor washed until my dad's new girlfriend got hold of them last year. But my dad 100% has allllll the boxes of crap. Records, books, CDs, tapes, DVDS, old junk ... all of it. 
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