We Decorate?!?!

A new semester means a new chance for decorations, and we LOVE decorations. It has become a tradition with us that we try to come up with the best decorated apartment on the floor, and we strive to achieve it. Fall semester we had a hot man wall. It was pretty awesome until the boys got offended and so we had to move it into the hallway (and it is still in the hallway for you girls that ever need a pick me up  ), and created a quote wall instead. Winter semester we added on to the quote wall, and everyone loved reading the quotes and trying to figure out what they meant, even though they were usually wrong and we would never tell them what they quotes really meant, it was still always fun. So as we were starting our spring semester, we knew we had to do something amazing. Larissa had gotten online and found some cute decorating ideas with scrap book paper, but we knew that wouldn’t be enough, that was too easy. Once we met our roommates and talked to them, we decided to duct tape the walls in colors that would match the paper. We were going to have the coolest apartment EVER. Well of course we made the scrapbook paper a big deal and it was really quite stressful trying to make sure that all the colors were completely random, which probably took about an hour, and then trying to tape them onto the wall was a lot harder than we had planned on. In fact, the rows ended up being crooked, but by the time we noticed, we were so sick of the paper that we just left it like that. Once the roommates bought the duct tape we went to town on the rest of the walls!

The vision with the duct tape was to do a plaid type pattern, crisscrossing the tapes and colors. In our heads the idea was perfect, and should have been pretty easy. Boy we were wrong. We realized that the crisscrossing look involved a lot of weaving the tapes under and over the other pieces of tape, and tape isn’t the easiest thing to work with. It took us a week to get the entire front room done, and were very thankful to have it done. It really did look amazing. We loved it, and it was definitely unique. However, as time went on, the tape grew to be more of a trial rather than a prize to show off. Larissa was getting headaches from staring at the bright colors, and every tape that wasn’t perfectly straight was slowly driving us crazy. Finally one day towards the end of the semester we just couldn’t do it anymore, and we ripped all the tape off. The problem is we left the tape up ALL semester, which made it kind of glue itself to the wall. When we ripped the tape off we took a good share of the paint with it. Oops. Now it almost looks like we have stripes on the walls where the paint is gone. We’re going to have to buy paint, and hope that it’s enough that the managers don’t notice too much. Although it really was a fun idea, and we did get a lot of recognition for the bright colored duct tape, the consequences are outweighing the benefits now. Dang.