No matter how many times I emphatically pick English as my language of choice on YouTube, somehow the Internet remains convinced that I am a German. That means German captions, German videos, and German advertisements - geared for decidedly German tastes. Most recently that has meant ads for wall decals preceding my every video selection. Like I said, German tastes.
Wall decals are part of a distinct German interior design trend. These stickers are made to decorate the (white) walls of German apartments with uplifting words like "Love," "Power," and "Home," in letters that are at least two feet high and usually purple. You can even order whole texts, mostly in English, of little poems or inspirational sayings that hit the register somewhere between Chicken Soup for the Soul and Hello Kitty. I could be getting this all wrong and they're actually step one of an immersive English language learning course. You can also purchase hearts, flowers, and creeping vines, all in sticker form to brighten up your home.
I would say there are two problems here. The first one is that German landlords are rigid landlords who take the descriptor "institutional" as a compliment. That means all apartments look exactly the same. Well, not all, but mine, my friends', and at least half of the apartments I see on TV, and for the record, I watch a lot of real-estate-inspired television. White walls are sprayed with plaster to keep you wondering if smudges are dirt or texture; stainless steel doorknobs are of the kind routinely used on handicap washroom stalls; all doors can be locked with a long, old-fashioned key that belongs on the keyring of someone best addressed as "Matron". There is not a lot of raw potential to work with. Combined with the fact that Germans seem to feel it is a national duty to buy Bauhaus-ish white furniture, and you have a lot of identical, monotone apartments. But if I was going to try and make my apartment more homey without painting or betraying my homeland, I can't say that large scale wall decals would be my decorating method of choice. I guess in Germany, nothing says home sweet home like stickers in a foreign language.
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