How.. quaint! Actually, it does remind me a little of some of the wallpaper downstairs, but down there it kind of suits the room, and of course the folks who live down there. Except their stuff is a different color combo, no olive...
And brighter than the stuff we had in Holyoke. Two of the rooms the paper had a solid medium blue background, with patterns of lighter and darker blues, black and silver on one and the other was shades of blue that looked like a photograph of an afghan -- no, really. The third dark room had a medium green background with gigantic acanthus leaves in green w/gold and black outlining/highlights. No white at all.
Your pattern, aside from its intrinsic issues, also looks like it's too busy for a kitchen, esp. if you don't have a huge kitchen -- and even then only as an accent :P
Luckily that's just the back pantry -- this little addition off the kitchen that just has that slop sink and some cabinets. It does make the small space look smaller, and it's so dark and discolored from age that it makes it look wicked shabby.
It looks a lot like what was popular and trendy when I was growing up in the 1960s. We may have even had this same pattern. I think this color combination was especially popular because it went with both avacado and orange refrigerators and stoves. :-)
It's very much like what my mom put up in our kitchen when we first moved into that house, in 1972 or '73. It's just busier. And time has made it darker, which is worse.
When I first saw it I thought it was brocade fabric for an elizabethan and I thought ooooh. Then I saw that it was wall paper for a small room and I thought...umm no Then I pictured it WITH my afghan zig zag carpet and thought OH YES that is HORRIBLE!! :)
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And brighter than the stuff we had in Holyoke. Two of the rooms the paper had a solid medium blue background, with patterns of lighter and darker blues, black and silver on one and the other was shades of blue that looked like a photograph of an afghan -- no, really. The third dark room had a medium green background with gigantic acanthus leaves in green w/gold and black outlining/highlights. No white at all.
Your pattern, aside from its intrinsic issues, also looks like it's too busy for a kitchen, esp. if you don't have a huge kitchen -- and even then only as an accent :P
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Then I saw that it was wall paper for a small room and I thought...umm no
Then I pictured it WITH my afghan zig zag carpet and thought OH YES that is HORRIBLE!! :)
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