wallpaper

If you’ve spent time in the San Fernando Valley, it would be easy to view the overhead electrical transmission lines that stretch for more than 20 miles simply as essential wallpaper of modern living.

That lent a velveteen innocence to the jovial wreckage “The Osbournes” created and navigated almost constantly, although there were many times when what we saw clashed against the lighthearted sonic wallpaper.

He’s decorated the Freeman’s bunker with faded newspapers screaming about famine and bloodshed — facts they know so well that they surely don’t need to use them as wallpaper.

“Don’t take yourself too seriously,” says New Jersey-based designer Sarah Storms, who hung a small, ornately framed painting of a pink swan in a tiny bathroom with blue wallpaper.

Now she’s created her dream home in L.A., every inch covered in wallpaper, color and patterned textiles.