Some years ago when I moved into my own space, I kept the room designated as the formal living room, according to the blueprint and according to my parents, just that. Although there were no funds for formal furniture, in my mind, that's what that space had to be. And so it was, albeit an empty space. What I did do in my quest for creating that formal feeling was to put up some wallpaper that I truly loved at the time, but now I realize it was a bit of a mistake because here I stand some years later on the verge of ripping it off the walls, never having used i