Wallpaper your boyfriend in
Wallpaper sales after declining for the last 6 years to $1B, are beginning to climb again thanks to boredom with the last two decades of minimalism and some wild new designs that are almost three-dimensional and very intricate according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required).
One, called "Singles" costs $350 per 10' x 13' foot panel for a photo of a life-sized man sitting on a couch or a woman reading a magazine. You can also get your own loved one's photo put on it if you really miss him/her when he/she's not around.
At the turn of the 20th century, the Arts and Crafts movement used the same coarse brown paper from grocery bags to double as wallpaper. The last big look for wallpaper was in the 1960s and 1970s, when brightly colored geometric designs, pop-art motifs and vinyl were the rage. By the 1980s, such loudness led to a retreat into minimalism, and homeowners stripped off wallpaper in favor of bare walls and neutral colors.