We've gathered together our favourite wallpaper ideas for your delectation. Will you choose a cheery floral wallpaper or modern graphic number, wallpaper that has been surface-printed, digitally printed or hand-painted? Will you paper one wall or all four? We prefer the latter - if you're going to get wet, you might as well go swimming. Wallpaper sometimes gets rather bad press. People wrinkle their noses, mutter things like 'grannyish' and protectively clutch their tins of white paint. Although there is a time and place for pale minimalism (heck, we have an entire gallery dedicated to the subject), we think it's time for wallpaper to have a comeback. Too often it is relegated to the downstairs loo. Why not use it to line your bedroom or living room? It has the power to make small spaces look cosy, not cramped, and larger rooms grand instead of stark.
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Cole & Son Palm Print HallIn the London home of garden designer Butter Wakefield a pattern of oversize palm leaves by Cole & Son clambers through the hall and up the stairs; the section below the dado rail is painted in 'Pea Green' from Edward Bulmer Natural Paint and a black and white runner from Crucial Trading continues Butter's favoured colour theme.
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Matching Floral Wallpaper & Upholstery
A small print wallpaper has been matched with a similar fabric on upholstery and curtains, in this study at the home of Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke, the duo behind the American interior design studio Madcap Cottage. Famous for their exuberant use of pattern, their influences Brighton Pavilion, Colefax and Fowler, David Hicks and the Duchess of Devonshire. But their approach to decorating in the English country-house style has a special energy and flair - they revere the style, but they treat it with an appealing irreverence.
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Vertical Stripe wallpaper from Timorous Beasties
In this fun child's bedroom, 'Vertical Stripe' wallpaper from lines the walls, adding to the fun blue-and-white scheme.
Moving from a tall town house to a west-London mews enabled interior designer Caroline Riddell to enjoy a more open-plan way of living.
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Patricia Anne wallpaper from Liberty
This narrow staircase is lined with Patricia Anne wallpaper from , a classic paisley with large flowers. The lighting is 's 'Star Lantern'.
Open-plan living is made cosy with warm touches to this mews house in London owned by designer Caroline Riddell.
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