壁クロスにも日米関係 Wallpaper East vs. West

July 10, 2008: 日米関係Culture Shock

廊下の壁を綺麗に

亀清の廊下の壁が大分傷んでいました(我が息子達の影響もあったかもしれません)。今日は来るその業者に頼んで、塗り壁を落としてクロスを貼りなおしてもらいました。話を聞くと、洋紙を重ねって貼るけど日本は防火関係で紙は端を合わせて貼るそうです。壁クロスにも日米関係だ!
The walls of Kamesei's main hallway have gotten pretty beat up (due in no small part to our rambunctious sons). Today, we had a pro come in and take off the applied wall and put on wallpaper. He told me that Western Wallpaper was applied with the edges overlapping. In Japan, though, that's considered a fire hazzard, to the paper here is designed to be applied with the edges lined up with each other. Even in wallpaper, East and West differ!





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