At Christmas a year ago my sister-in-law Lovely encouraged me to get a Pinterest account. I did, and checked it out, and read somewhere that the average Pinterest user spends an hour a day Pinning. I promptly decided not to go there.
But when the Pink Project started gearing up I started using Pinterest to explore decorating ideas. It was grand!
Search for “Pink Bathroom” and you’ll be deluged with glimmering visions that leave you wondering where in the flying fuck is this in real life and is this a genuine bathroom or a movie set??? (Sorry about my language there, we can all blame Pinterest excitement.)
You’ll learn fascinating facts that leave you feeling sophisticated such as that “1950s bathroom” is not a “thing.” It’s called “mid-century modern.”
You’ll find decorating ideas that leave you breathless with cool. Such as hanging a wine rack on your bathroom wall and putting rolled up accent towels in it.
I was so stunned by the wine rack idea that I became an hour-a-dayer. I explored and re-explored and shared the wine rack idea. Hubby loved it, Lovely loved it, Mom loved it. I was positive that I had stumbled across a heretofore un-dreamed of decorating idea. I thought Pinterest was the bomb.
So, I start actually shopping for appropriate wine racks and discover that in the Amazon.com listings many racks are called “wine/towel” fixtures.
It hit me that I was simply participating in a trend, a trend trendily distributed via Pinterest. That despite my personalized folders and my very own mailbox, Pinterest was not, in fact, delivering a private service. I felt taken for a ride where I had previously felt included in an exclusive club.
Oh well. I am still totally displaying accent towels in a wine rack on my bathroom wall. Here’s to hoping future guests aren’t familiar with Internet decorating trends!
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