There are three things you can buy. Lincrusta costs a fortune -- it's from the 1800s and they use the original machines to make it, and one that printed wainscoting broke down last year and no parts to fix it. It's firm and hard and thick. Anaglypta costs a little less and is thicker than wallpaper but thinner than Lincrusta. These two products have the higher raises and deeper depths to them, Lincrusta having the most depth. The pictures I posted are Lincrusta, to my recollection. This is where I got the pictures I posted above, and there are many more here: http://www.lincrusta.com/ It does tell you how to achieve each technique (the basics at least). >Do you they make embossed wallpaper that is already completed and doesn't need painted? I don't know. If you mean like what I pictured above? No I don't think so. That is Lincrusta and it is hand painted. Drooooool, huh? Yeah, me too. I think it is stunning. I would use it on the lower half of the wall only, so it won't be overwhelming. This treatment is something I've been thinking about doing in my own bathroom, but I haven't done it yet. If you buy the Lincrusta from that site, I'll bet they would be happy to tell you exactly which paint to buy and how to achieve the effect you want BUT they are in England, so what they have there may not be the same as what we have here. If you learn which paint to use, please let me know. Here: http://www.wallpapersplus.com/product15766.html They have my favorite one (the one pictured in this post) ON SALE for only -- are you sitting down? -- $137.50 per roll! LOL Unpasted, of course. I have NO idea how to cut it to go around toilet pipes, as in, does it crumble if you bend it too much, etc? Dunno. I did get the beadboard wallpaper from this company and liked them very much and found the paper easy enough to apply (though you have to be careful not to tear it when it's wet). Perhaps this would work? http://www.grahambrown.com/us/product/17773/Large%20Damask%20Paintable%20Wallpaper I've been thinking on my budget I'd mess around with regular embossed wallpaper and paint and see what I could accomplish. Then again, I AM tempted to go in and measure and see if I could get by with just ONE roll of that Lincrusta. Naughty me. Because that stuff makes me go weak in the knees.

OK, we need some serious tweaking here. Looks like you moved the recliner beyond the foot of the bed. That should work better. The rug looks nice and plush, and is utterly useless where you have it. I suggest you get another exactly like it and put one on each side of the bed to catch your tootsies when you get up. Why two lamps on each nightstand? Were you thinking two small ones would equal one large one? You need a bigger lamp on each side. This is a big BIG room. You cannot do small stuff here. Better to leave blank space than to have bitty stuff. Which brings me to the stuff hanging on the walls... Better a totally blank wall than a small piece hanging in the middle of a vast expanse. The art over the chest will probably work if you lower it a bit. I suggest you gather every framed piece and wall hanging you own and look at creating a galley wall of some kind on the wall with the TV. (You can get very inexpensive digital downloads on etsy.com, and frames from Ikea or Target, and make your own gallery wall.)

It is impossible to get a feel for the overall setting with these pictures. If you'd return to EXACTLY where the first picture was taken, then pivot the camera to the right, and then left, capturing additional photos that slightly overlap with the first, so as we could see all the way to the side lot lines, that would make a huge difference. There is definitely a need for trees so as to make the house appear protected and sheltered and nestled into the surroundings ... instead of looking like an exposed hot box frying in the sun. And with trees, there needs to be shrubs, perennials and groundcover in order for it to look full and complete. I don't care for any of the existing landscaping that shows in the first picture. The two trees near the house are positioned so as to stifle the entrance, not enhance it. The beds and the octagon look like outdated brooches pinned onto the lawn. I would start over with a total revamp. (Need those pictures!) Above all else, I find the angles of the porte cochere ceiling, which do not match the roof lines, to scream out as WRONG, WRONG WRONG! This could probably be eradicated with a fascia that matches the roof lines. (You have to be careful how you fix this because details matter.) The idea of encasing the columns to be square strikes me a really wrong, too. It seems they are one of the more graceful elements surrounded by some otherwise clunky features. I would be considering how to make other things go with them better, instead of making them go away. There seems to be a need for more and better windows. I think you need an architect to bring all the details together. In regards to the paint scheme, if it were me I would not paint the house body any version of white or too light. In a sunny, unsheltered area this screams with glare and has a more commercial look. I think it would look much better as a darker color with white trim ... dark enough that there was some contrast. I would avoid anything in the brown/tan range and opt for something in the grey/taupe department. There are hundreds of variations on this theme that are possibilities. Google some images.

Well, guys... I think its hopeless. I do hope someone is saving a list of all of the bad ideas, so years from now we can run down a list for s#!ts and giggles. I know right now it makes us pull our hair out, but later, with the passage of time, it will become comedic gold. Its like Monte Python, it only gets funnier with time.