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Shine

Fancy carpet and wallpaper covered this room.
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What a beautifully tacky combination of wallpaper and carpeting!
Lynne
Fri 09-22-2006
That looks like my family's apartment before the renovations. I like the tacky!
Navi.
Fri 09-22-2006
Good grief, that is reminiscent of the shiny, tacky wallpaper I no longer have to look at in my living room! :-)
Jude
Fri 09-22-2006
this is why the people went insane, bad interior design.
Joe
Fri 09-22-2006
that's carpet on the floor? it looked like glue spots from when tile is removed. i dig the wallpaper, kinda like fabric.
patty
Fri 09-22-2006
I can't seem to figure out what that little "framed hole" in the corner is...It continues under the window as a gap and I'm just puzzled..My computer screen might be too dim for me too see it clearly (I adjusted it back and forth with no effect), but..WHAT IS THE HOLE FOR? O_o
Mechabull
Fri 09-22-2006
I think it's just a vent, Mechabull. The dark gap under the window I believe to be just shadows from the radiator thingie sticking out under the window...but I could be wrong!
Sara B.
Fri 09-22-2006
Once upon a time somebody who was trapped in his or her mind and could not leave this place may have stood right here and been looking out the window. Try to imagine the pain in the heart...
Don
Sat 09-23-2006
i thought it was groove that was in the heart?
surly girl
Sun 09-24-2006
I don't know why but it looks like a little old lady's room with the bad carpet and wallpaper. Kinda makes me sad.
Florida Jen
Mon 09-25-2006
What some people will do to save a buck on remodeling! At least it gives something interesting to comtemplate. Such as: Who in their right mind would have either of these elements in their home or office let alone both AT THE SAME TIME!
reddll
Mon 09-25-2006
Yeah, you might be right Sara B. Now that I look at it, "the dark part" under the window really is a shadow..XD The papers on the floor seemed to create lines that I mistook as edges..Clearly said..8D And the hole must be for venting, I agree. It just looks abnormally huge, like, you could fit through it if you were really small and skinny.. X ] Or a cat. :S
Mechabull
Tue 10-03-2006
I love the light how it makes the wallpaper 'shine' or whatnot. Gorgeous tacky combination...lol.
Sam
Fri 10-13-2006
I'm sure the effect when new and balanced with furniture was much more subtle. I love it.
Jenifer
Sun 10-15-2006
so good picture!
It reminds me about horror games such as Alone In The Dark..silly I guess:D
belamort
Sun 10-15-2006
the shapes and angles are so wierd, like the designer kept forgetting his plan, something in it just feels amiss, conventional decorators might bitch about trying to decorate something like this. Id be in heaven if it was my room. and what is that thing under the window,? soap dispenser? cool! it matches the room.
kb
Fri 10-20-2006
oh ya, the view is incredible, motts ,I bow, again.
kb
Fri 10-20-2006
In my opinion they are bugs and spiders. Im sure yhat some of these people had an extreme fear of bugs and spiders. This room was to show them that they won't hurt hurt them. WHAT A JOKE. Torture, just pure TORTURE!!!!!! That's the way they did things back then.Face your fears and overcome them. I mean, for what other reason would a room be decorated like this. I'd lide some response here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVERMORE
Sat 11-04-2006
nevermore, you're just SCREAMING out for Lynne here, aren't you. -_-; surely, I hope that was supposed to be funny...

if you want my opinion, the room seems rather ornate, yet tacky... but welcoming all the same. I wouldn't mind being in a room like this one if I had to spend my days in a mental hospital. its better than no decorations at all!
J.R.
Sun 11-05-2006
If that was suppose to be funny - what about all the other comments?
CAS
Sun 11-05-2006
I think the room is just reflecting how tacky our tastes were at the time, myself. And truthfully, few patients' rooms were ever this ornate (unless they were pretty rich or came from rich families). I am guessing this was a staff bedroom (but that's just a guess).
Lynne
Sun 11-05-2006
I thought I was going to read "filth marks on the wall...." in the discription... seriously :-P
What was up with designers those days?
Lia
Sat 12-16-2006
I love the wall paper, it kind of reminds me of, hmmm *ponders* black butterflies. Dead ones. Flying away from the horror within the building. Muhahaha. Maybe i read too much into architecture and the like. :D
PuRpLe PiXiE
Sun 01-21-2007
You can also find the same print as the carpet on any sofa being sold at a thrift store, moldy basement, or my neighbor's front porch!
C-Note
Sun 04-15-2007
All the fancy stuff might have been for the richies that survived the Titanic disaster, after they went nuts because everything they owned went down with the ship.
Maniac Mike
Thu 07-10-2008
Reminds me of the 'Blue' video by The Birthday Massacre. Oh how I looooooovvvvveee that video! You all, INCLUDING LYNNE, should look at it. I love it!
Person
Fri 02-20-2009
I think it's quite beautiful. That golden carpet with that ornate silk-like shimmer on the walls... early 20th century style.
kittymao
Fri 07-10-2009

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