We began redecorating our gloomy living room by painting it bright white, but the fireplace wall looked pretty stark. The dove gray Westport pattern was the perfect choice to add a little understated class to the room. This is a pattern we can live with for a long time. The gray is much lighter than it looked on the webpage, but thats OK since the goal of redecorating was to bright the room. Light from south facing windows reflects off the paper to add even more light to the space. Our fix-it guy liked how heavy the paper was, but he really had to work to bend it tightly around the 4 corners just above the fireplace. The pattern itself made it easy to disguise seams, since they just look like vertical lines in the design. The two strips at either end of the wall are less than 2 wide, but you cant tell unless you run your fingers across the seams (flat edge-to-edge seams, NOT overlapping). We like the look of this paper so much, it will go on the outer wall of the stairwell next.