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We turn the page on wallpaper: Once it was dowdy; now young buyers think it's a cool covering, with bold and modern pattern and texture.
By Kathleen Nicholson Webber, For The InquirerMaureen Doron's favorite spring look at her Bryn Mawr store is a Milly floral coat over a striped dress. So it's no surprise the owner of Skirt wanted to use color and pattern in the first home she bought at 29 with her husband, Nathan.
"I wanted it to be classic, yet young and fresh," she says of the stone Colonial in Broomall. She also wanted it to look finished even before she moved in. Mona Ross Berman was just the kindred spirit to help Doron. But the Chestnut Hill designer presented her with an element banished by the previous generation of homeowners - wallpaper.
"A few years ago I would show it to a client and the response was, 'Really?' " Berman says. "It had a very stodgy, old-lady reputation. Now there is a modern way to do it."
