Riggs Partners

On rooms.

What did your bedroom look like in high school?

Julie Turner
Duran Duran and other random band posters from the free bin at Sounds Familiar.

Pete Anderson
My room had a fly fishing decorative motif (mom’s choice) and very little
free space. Being the oldest, I got the room with the most privacy and
sunlight, which was nice.

Teresa Coles
We were building on a new wing to our house at the time, and all I wanted
was orange shag carpet (Go Tigers). It was set off with a custom gold
quilted spread, yellow/gold/orange combo stripe/flowered wallpaper, and
white dotted swiss curtains to calm it all down. A result of my daddy’s
directive to my mother “Let the baby have what she wants.”

Ryon Edwards

Maria Fabrizio
10th grade when I lived at home: 4 lemon yellow walls, 1 wall with Starry Night by Van gough. That year, the day after christmas I went to my room with a new set of paints and just painted it. Without permission. And my closet was plastered with Hanson posters. 11th and 12th grade I shared a dorm room at Governor’s School. It was small with two twin beds, two mis-matched comforters, two disparate sets of family photos, a poster of Jim Morrison with two hand drawn lobsters covering his chest, two completely different styles and sizes of teenage girl clothing, one small mirror above a small sink, and a trashcan filled with empty ramen packets.

Cathy Monetti
One summer I went away to camp and came home to discover my mother had completely redecorated my bedroom while I was gone. I was livid, and being 13, vowed to hate everything about that room, forever. Now I’m the Mom (of a daughter no less), and I realize my mother did this as a generous act of love. It is a great truth that the view is very different from this side of a mother/daughter relationship. Although—I must say—I never touch anything in my child’s room without permission!

Kathryn White
Clean. I was vigilant about hanging up clothes as soon as I was done with them. I didn’t allow books to stack up on my bedside table. Clutter never saw my floor. (What happened to that person?!)

Yanti Pepper
It had a credenza that housed my Emerson stereo with turntable, record albums (this was pre iPod, even pre cd’s!) and a 13 inch black and white tv with only a dozen channels (all local stations, no cable).  And I’m pretty sure that I had a poster of The Police on my wall because they were my favorite group back in the day. And I think I had a poster of Michael Jackson from his Thriller days.