The big, empty wall in the laundry room also seemed a great option, but I hadn’t done much in the way of finishing or thoughtful designing the laundry room yet, so the paper was tucked into a cabinet and left. I thought about it from time to time, both because of how pretty it was, and because I felt a little guilty I had received this promotional roll of wallpaper and not used it. The gift had been no-strings-attached, so I needn’t have felt guilty, but I did anyway. When we packed for our unexpected move to Richmond, VA, I tucked the cactus paper into a box, wondering how weird it would be to hang prickly pear in the land of magnolia trees and hydrangea. Richmond isn’t exactly a desert (like, at all) and I knew our home wouldn’t be the same southwestern style that we had loved in Texas.Īfter around 5 months of renovation in our Fixer Upper, I was unpacking something in the storage box and spotted the cactus wallpaper. By this time we had redone the entire kitchen, flooring, aded shiplap and painted most of the main level. This little hallway peeks out through a doorway (where I had permanently removed the door) and every time I passed by I thought its was calling for a little something fun. On a whim, I hung the roll from the ceiling with a bit of painters tape, and proceeded to swoon with delight. Who knew this perfect cactus wallpaper had been meant to sit on a shelf and in a moving box for three years all leading up to this moment where it FOUND IT’S PLACE IN THE WORLD?!Ī little dramatic? Possibly, but there are so many elements of chance and luck that bring a home together it seems justifiable to celebrate a little. Each small detail plays with the other small details to create the feeling of home. Of course, there was only one roll of cactus wallpaper…so I reached out to Milton and King and asked if they might be so kind as to send me one more roll to complete this hallway. So, the perfect cactus wallpaper hangs in our tiny, lovely hallway in our cozy Cape Cod in the heard of Richmond, VA. I still haven’t hung the second roll quite yet, but it’s on my list to finish within the next three years.The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances - both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age.

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