i curse thee

Having wallpaper in your home is fine, and can, in fact, look attractive. However, if you are incapable of properly prepping the walls (so that the paper comes off easily when it is to be removed), then maybe you should just stick to painting.

And if you have the unfortunate luck of buying a house with ugly wallpaper, do not even consider putting wallpaper over the old stuff. Some day, after you've moved, the new owner of your house will curse your name, I promise you. (Or, they may continue in stupidity and paper over the two layers of wallpaper...one day they also will be cursed.)

If you're bent on having ugly paper to line your kitchen drawers/cabinets, maybe you could just 'tack' it in, instead of using 'ultra-strong-it'll-never-ever-come-off' adhesive contact paper. (If you have bought a house with drawers/cabinets lined with such paper, you are forgiven for painting over it. Your name will go uncursed, and the original affixer of the evil will be held solely responsible.)

And lastly. I'm sure the idea of 'living in luxury' is one that every home-owner envisions and dreams of. However, as 'luxurious' as some ideas may sound, perhaps you should run the idea past other people before you do things that others will regret.

Now I know that when the idea first hit, it was brilliant, and (must have) sounded incredibly upscale. Nevertheless, simultaneously glueing and nailing carpet into several of your lower kitchen cabinets, is really not such a great idea.

Especially if you seem to have a fetish with nailing things down. I'm sure that glue would do the job well enough, or a nail in the 4 corners would also hold the carpet in place.

There is absolutely never ANY need to nail 5 rows of 4 nails (apprximately every 3 or so inches) into a cabinet shelf to keep the liner (be it carpet, velour, construction paper,or linoleum!) from moving. SO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DOING SO EVER AGAIN!

For the LIFE of me I cannot even begin to understand what one must be thinking to actually nail (extremely nail, might I add) and glue a piece of carpet into a cabinet. Yes, we have extra pieces of our new carpet left over, but not ONCE did I suggest to my husband that we see if any of the pieces fit into a kitchen cabinet!