31.   An elegant but dated two-bedroom co-op in a Park Avenue building, where one bedroom wall is covered with smoky mirrors?

32.   And more homeowners are going beyond a simple splash of color, instead covering their walls with scenery or themes.

33.   And the walls are covered with newspaper clippings of Michael Jordan and Reggie Miller, and photographs of Sowell with dozens of smiling friends.

34.   Apparently these walls were all covered with canvas some years ago and in some places this canvas has started to pull away from the wall along the seams.

35.   As I wriggled onto the flowered banquette I noticed that the restaurant was small and slightly claustrophobic, the walls covered with fussy paintings.

36.   At the home, a wall is covered with signed watercolor prints by Seattle artist Danny Mayes.

37.   At the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City, for example, the walls are covered with drawings of blood and arms and sermons with calls for battle.

38.   At the Hair Force salon on State Street, the walls are covered with photographs of the sleek planes, signed by pilot-customers.

39.   At Patricia Fields, a downtown boutique, one wall is covered with stickers from patrons using one of the first Print Club machines in New York.

40.   Autographed glossies of celebrities cover a wall where aspiring unknowns once hung head shots and phone numbers in the hopes of being noticed.