Decorating
Decorating: 11 Different Ways With Wallpaper
From trompe l’oeil to bold hues to wonderful whimsy, wallpaper can add punch to a room like nothing else. Check out these delightful designs
In the UK, we’ve had a long love affair with wallpaper. What started as a cheap alternative to the fancy wall-hung tapestries of the wealthy, remains to this day one of the best ways to bring character into your home. With plenty of options on offer, adding wallpaper achieves a host of design aims and is easily updated when you fancy a change. From enduring motifs to do-it-yourself, wallpaper is a versatile way to add elegance, fun, statement or surprise.
Jazz up your staircase
Circus wallpaper from Cole & Son transforms this simple staircase into a stunning feature. The overlapping diamond shapes draw your eye up and round.
Circus wallpaper from Cole & Son transforms this simple staircase into a stunning feature. The overlapping diamond shapes draw your eye up and round.
Suspend reality
Create a sense of drama with lifelike images. Here the lighting and wood panelling create a spooky woodland backdrop in this cloakroom. The Woods wallpaper by Cole & Son completes the look, and is captured in the mirror above the basin.
Create a statement cloakroom with wow wallpaper
Create a sense of drama with lifelike images. Here the lighting and wood panelling create a spooky woodland backdrop in this cloakroom. The Woods wallpaper by Cole & Son completes the look, and is captured in the mirror above the basin.
Create a statement cloakroom with wow wallpaper
Do it yourself
Want something unique? Create your own wallpaper by pasting up old magazines. The sepia tones of these vintage articles create a warm and intriguing focal point in this hall.
Want something unique? Create your own wallpaper by pasting up old magazines. The sepia tones of these vintage articles create a warm and intriguing focal point in this hall.
Mix old and new
Combine a classic, such as a William Morris wallpaper, with ultra-modern kitchen fittings for an elegant, characterful design.
How to maximise light in your kitchen
Combine a classic, such as a William Morris wallpaper, with ultra-modern kitchen fittings for an elegant, characterful design.
How to maximise light in your kitchen
Make an entrance
Inject some fun with your entrance wall coverings. Teamed with elegant fixtures and fittings, such as this glass console table and Philippe Starck table lamp, the cheeky Bond Girls wallpaper reveals a lighter side to the elegant scheme.
Inject some fun with your entrance wall coverings. Teamed with elegant fixtures and fittings, such as this glass console table and Philippe Starck table lamp, the cheeky Bond Girls wallpaper reveals a lighter side to the elegant scheme.
Take an arty turn
It doesn’t have to be in a frame to count as art. Create a feature wall with this unforgettable design from the Fornasetti range.
It doesn’t have to be in a frame to count as art. Create a feature wall with this unforgettable design from the Fornasetti range.
Bring the outside in
Looking at images of nature is said to lower our blood pressure and help with overall wellbeing. If you can’t have plants everywhere, opt for a nature scene on your wall to give you that daily lift.
Looking at images of nature is said to lower our blood pressure and help with overall wellbeing. If you can’t have plants everywhere, opt for a nature scene on your wall to give you that daily lift.
Create a focal point
Give your guests something to read on the way upstairs. Rows of Penguin Classics front covers on this Penguin Library wallpaper from Osborne & Little make a delightful and vibrant wall covering and bring light to a dark corner.
Give your guests something to read on the way upstairs. Rows of Penguin Classics front covers on this Penguin Library wallpaper from Osborne & Little make a delightful and vibrant wall covering and bring light to a dark corner.
Surprise your guests
Wallpaper can go almost anywhere and creates a fresh look in the most unexpected of places. Here, it’s replaced the traditional carpet, with a repeating pattern that creates an effortless sense of space.
TELL US…
Are you a fan of wallpaper? Share your thoughts and photos in the Comments below.
Wallpaper can go almost anywhere and creates a fresh look in the most unexpected of places. Here, it’s replaced the traditional carpet, with a repeating pattern that creates an effortless sense of space.
TELL US…
Are you a fan of wallpaper? Share your thoughts and photos in the Comments below.
Back in the 1700s, colouring your walls by hand was a clever way to avoid the wallpaper tax of the time. The tradition has continued with Taylor & Wood’s hand drawn-style Frames wallpaper, which encourages you to get interactive and make the room your own. At last, a wall you’ll want your children to draw on.