Musings of the Crabby Shy/Wild

Below, please check out some wallpaper and fabric. I got them all at a Brunschwig & Fils fabric sale at the Metropolitan Pavilion. The sale is on now through Saturday at 110 West 19th Street. Now, I should have known better than to go on opening day of a textiles sale that was featured in The New York Times, especially one with a name as pretentious as Brunschwig & Fils. But I was already obsessed with the thought of wallpapering a wall in my kitchen. So I went. 

The staff people were quite nice and helpful, even being so kind as to mistakenly charge me two rolls of wallpaper for the price of one. It was already on sale! And there were detailed charts up explaining the price color coding, presumably so that you weren’t shamed upon checkout when you learned that what you thought was $40 in fabric was really $400. The atmosphere was rather Barney’s Warehouse sale meets overcrowded Hampton Jitney. At one point I moved in closer to look at a ream of fabric that some dull blonde Upper East Side woman was mulling over and I swear that she grunted and showed her teeth. It was my lunchbreak so I quickly settled on some green wallpaper, scored lengthwise, that will look lovely on this wall in my kitchen. In theory, at least. Wallpapering may just be a new outlet for masochism, as evidenced by the fact that the easiest task, sewing pillows, I have outsourced to Crozet, Virginia.