the new wallpaper

i am sure that like any good generation x-er, or y-er...or what have you, you too grew up with wallpapered rooms in your family home.  i know i did!  i still remember my bathroom's wallpaper, it was a teeny-tiny scale pink and green floral pattern, that sort of looked like stripes...i loved it.  and i really loved the pink carpet in my bedroom...a six-year-old's dream come true.  our kitchen had a hunter green (remember hunter green??  when was the last time you heard someone talk about hunter green?  was it in reference to a land's end barn jacket?) floral wallpaper, almost vine looking. 

well, the days of staid floral wallpaper in muted colors are over - there are so very many fresh and fun wallpapers out there, i don't know HOW i'm going to pick just one for our dining room!  i know several of you did not find any objection to the current toile walls, and at one time in my life i could not get enough toile...but it's just not really indicative of my current tastes.  so it must go.  and in its place - something just fabulous.

at the moment, i've been squealing with delight at katie ridder's options...and what more assurance do you need that a particular option is in fact fabulous, when it's good enough for carrie bradshaw?!

it's her "oiseau" paper in chocolate. mmm.  it comes in several other equally delicious colorways, as well.

she has several other fun patterns as well...

here's a powder room that erin over at elements of style designed, using katie's "leaf" pattern.

and a butler's pantry that katie ridder herself designed utilizing another one of her patterns...  don't you just love a butler's pantry?  i sure do.

oh - and she does fabric too.  (swoon)

jen also just sent over SO MANY amazing wallpaper options - i just know any of them would be perfect...

...but how to pick just one?  oy.

have great weekends!!

xoxo