As a decorating device we have always chosen to use wallpaper in our decor. Not in every room of the house admittedly, but in enough of those rooms to reflect how important wallpaper is to our aesthetic. In every house we have ever lived, those we owned and those we lived in otherwise, the use of wallpaper, carefully selected to reflect our shared sense of what constituted a beautiful background, remained an integral part of our decorating plans.

And, to this day, after a succession of houses and fondly-recalled wallpapers, we are still employing their use in parts of our home that we feel would benefit by their presence. The latest being the make-over of our ground floor powder room. Which, truth to tell, I was resistant to having redecorated, but the opinion of the principal decorator prevailed in this instance, as in all others.

This time, however, in searching out a suitable wallpaper to replace the one that I liked so much, but which dissatisfied his exacting taste, my husband conducted his search on the Internet in the hope that he would find something different and suitable to what he had in mind. He did, in fact, find two landscape wallpapers that took his fancy, at two separate sites.

And he set about making his final selection, placed his order, and in a week's time it arrived, to his great satisfaction. Ordered from a site in the U.S., the solid vinyl wallcovering with its green-emphasis landscape and fetching detail was exactly what he was looking for. And it was quite the international product.

Designed and created in Canada for an American company, and produced in Korea.