From quiet textures to statement-making graphics, nothing transforms a space like wallpaper. At our Atlanta showhouse, the designers used 35+ different wallpapers ranging from textured grass cloths to scenic reveries. Everyone seems to be considering these beautiful backdrops so we’ve gathered a collection of stylish wallpaper ideas for entry halls, living spaces, dining rooms, kitchens and bars, bath and powder rooms, even dressing rooms and home offices. Our editors have looked back through the pages of FLOWER and gathered more than 100 photos of wallpapered spaces along with their pattern names and colorways where available, to help inspire your wallpaper imaginings.
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WALLPAPER IDEAS FOR BATHROOMS & POWDER ROOMS
A mosaic tile, used as wainscoting in the bath of this Kara Adam designed pool house, is topped with a wispy circle wallpaper. The pattern, Juno from Studio E, is block-printed Venetian plaster on a pearlescent white background. Photo by Michael Hunter
See more from this artfully designed Kara Adam home.
In this powder room, the Growing Nasturtiums wallpaper is from Waterhouse Wallhangings. The mirror is vintage. Interior design by Ellen Kavanaugh of Ellen Kavanaugh Interiors with Madison Way of her Palm Beach design team. Photo by Carmel Brantley
See more from “Palm Beach Pop.”
Designer James Farmer used a botanical-print wallpaper and shades echo the woodland views from the 1845 Martin home in Oak Bowery, Alabama. Photography by Emily Followill
For this home makeover, designer Marea Clark worked with the existing vanity and flooring, but updated the powder room with paint, new fixtures, a marble slab, and a large-scale botanical wallpaper, Gucci’s Souvenir from Rome. Photography by Stephanie Russo
The powder room and vestibule of this Penobscot Bay home are done in Meg Braff’s Beverly Hills wallpaper. The owner loves tropical themes as well, and when someone said she couldn’t use banana leaf wallpaper in the powder room, she replied, “Just watch me!” Photo by J. Savage Gibson
See more of this “Coastal Charmer.”
In a bathroom, Summer Thornton had a bit of fun papering the small space with a Gucci Heron print wallpaper. “The birds are way too big for the space,” she says. “And that’s why they are perfect here.” Photo by Thomas Loof
See more from “Summer Thornton in Wonderland.”
A bathroom wrapped in the Ferrick Mason wallpaper pattern Good Fortune feels both elegant and playful. Bathroom designed by Lucas Studio, Inc. Photo by Karyn Millet
See our interview with Ferrick Mason’s painter and designer Alex Mason.
For a bathroom in an 1860s Boston brownstone remodel, Liz Caan and Co. in Newton, Massachusetts used an accent tile to highlight the gold fixtures. “We had to replace the plumbing components, which destroyed the existing wall, so we decided to create ’tile artwork’ in the shower,” Liz says. They complemented the dark dark tiles with a graphic, leaf-print wallpaper. Photo by Michael Lee and Eric Roth
See more from this Boston brownstone remodel.
For this powder room, Heather Dewberry selected a small floral, Maryam Vine wallpaper by Schumacher in Peacock. “When using wallpaper in more than one room, I try to vary the scales so they don’t compete,” says Heather. Photo by Emily Followill
See more of Heather Dewberry Stoller’s fresh style.
“My spaces represent a lot of my favorite places and things. The powder room wallpaper is based on a Venetian palazzo, and the printed velvet depicts my grandmother’s crazy quilt that I still own,” says Michelle Nussbaumer of one of the spaces she designed for the FLOWER Atlanta Showhouse. Michelled designed the dramatic, Paul Montgomery Renzo Marmo wallpaper. Photo by David Hillegas
See more from Michelle’s powder room and entry hall.
In a bathroom at the 2021 Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House, Alexandra Naranjo of Alexandra Naranjo Designs drew on the inspiration of Southern Florida with its tropical landscape captured in outstanding de Gournay L’Eden wallpaper with a jungle vibe. The freestanding cobalt blue bathtub topped with a Currey & Company crystal chandelier completes the glamorous space. Photo by Sargent Architectural Photography
CeCe Barfield Thompson chose Austrian sconces that “hang like earrings” in the Adelphi Chestertown Vine floral–patterned powder room beside a Gothic Twig mirror by Carvers’ Guild. The 1765, English Chestertown Vine pattern is licensed to Adelphi Paper Hangings by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Photo by Lesley Unruh
See more CeCe Barfield Thompson designs.
For a five-star guest suite, Dallas designer Denise McGaha designed the bathroom around a wonderful, botanical wallpaper from Cole & Son, Frutto Proibito in Hyacinth & Orange. Photo by Stephen Karlisch
See more of this space and our Q&A with Denise McGaha.
In FLOWER‘s Brierfield Farm showhouse, designer Mary Evelyn McKee used Cloisters wallpaper from the Ashdown Collection by Nina Campbell for Osborne & Little through Ainsworth-Noah. Photo by David Hillegas
See more from the Brierfield farmhouse.
In the powder room of a Connecticut farmhouse renovated by James Farmer, a Thomas Strahan wallpaper aptly named Farmer adds a touch of whimsy. Photo by Jeff Herr
See more of James Farmer’s redesigned weekend retreat for a young family in Connecticut.
In designer Tina Yaraghi’s powder room, silk draperies, an antique Louis XVI armchair, and a Friedman Bros. French Rococo mirror recall the elegance of a lady’s dressing room. The custom onyx-topped vanity was repurposed from an inlaid walnut-and-cherry Louis XV commode. Schumacher’s Jester Caprice wallpaper wraps the room in whimsy. Photo by Brittany Ambridge
De Gournay’s Deco Monkeys wallpaper in Terracotta spices up the powder room of a Phillip Thomas designed, pre-war apartment on New York’s Upper East Side. Photo by Michael Mundy
See more from this Phillip Thomas apartment makeover.
BEDROOM WALLPAPER IDEAS
Drift away on butterfly wings in this bedroom with Butterfly Studies, a pattern from John Derian for Designers Guild, covering the walls. The detailed butterfly illustrations overlay lettering and linear floral forms on a parchment colored background. Photo courtesy of Designers Guild
See more from John Derian for Designers Guild
Lafayette Botanical fabric from Schumacher’s Colonial Williamsburg Collection creates a whimsical “garden” when used as wallcovering in the guest room of Williamsburg artist-in-residence Heather Chadduck’s home. Photo by David Hillegas
See more from this historic holiday home in Williamsburg.
In Elle Clymer’s daughter’s bedroom, Stephanie Woodmansee wrapped the walls—and dresser front—with a floral, Marthe Armitage Chestnut paper in “beautiful blue.” Photo by Read McKendree
See more from this Kansas City home with East Coast style.
Schumacher’s Pyne Hollyhock wallpaper climbs the walls of the “Moms’ Room” in Justin Anderson and Austin Rhodes’ Nashville home decorated by interior designer Bec Porter. Photo by Mary Craven Dawkins Photography
See more from Justin and Austin’s Nashville home.
“When I traveled to India several years ago, I visited the Baby Taj (I’timad-ud-Daulah) in Agra, which took my breath away. I worked with de Gournay to capture some of the details in the wallpaper,” says designer Cathy Kincaid of the primary bedroom at the FLOWER Atlanta Showhouse. The pattern is Jharokha Arches in its original colorway on pink painted Xuan paper. Photo by Emily Followill
See more of Cathy’s Taj-inspired bedroom.
Romantic and classically English, The Rose Sepia wallpaper by John Derian envelopes the bedroom of this Greensboro, North Carolina home in abundant blooms. Photo by Michael Blevins
See more of this English garden inspired interior design.
For this ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ inspired boys’ bedroom, Stephanie Woodmansee wrapped the space in Rebel Walls’ striking The Enchanted Forest, Daylight hand-painted mural. She had the lampshade covered with leftover Peter Dunham fabric with a soutache on top and bottom for detail. Photo by Read McKendree.
See more of our Designers’ Guide to Choosing Lampshades.
Blooms abound in a Dallas guest room designed by Cathy Kincaid, from the Bennison Chinese Paper wallpaper and fabric to the floral-embroidered quilts. Photo by Nathan Schroder
See more of this Dallas Tudor home renovation.
A bedroom wrapped in golden-hued, geometric Belvedere wallpaper in the Straw color from Veere Grenney’s eponymous collection. Photo by David Oliver
See more and our Q&A with Veere Grenney.
Liz Lange’s bedroom at Grey Gardens is awash in the blue wisteria flowers of Colefax and Fowler’s Seraphina fabric on the ceilings, walls, and windows, as well as in the Porthault blanket cover and the custom coverlet from Chelsea Editions. Photo by Michael Mundy
See more of Liz Lange’s Grey Gardens restoration.
For this cheerful bedroom in the 2020 Kips Bay Dallas show house, Dina Bandman paired a beautiful blue-and-white canopied bed with a de Gournay Erdem wallpaper designed by fashion genius Erdem Moralioglu. Photo by Stephen Karlisch and Douglas Friedman
See more from the Kips Bay Dallas house.
Osborne & Little Coronata wallpaper panels applied to the ceiling create a canopy of stars above the four-poster bed in the primary bedroom of designer Alix Rico’s New Orleans Home. Photo by Sara Essex Bradley
See more of Alix Rico’s Provence-inspired home.
In a child’s bedroom, an Obi Stripe paper in vibrant Fennel from the Botanical Atlas collection by Liberty Fabrics is used on the walls and ceiling. Photo courtesy of Liberty Fabrics
Sanderson Lilacs wallpaper makes a pretty statement while offering a serene backdrop in the master bedroom of this Matthew Patrick Smyth home in Westport, Connecticut. Mismatched end tables—an antique English writing table and a new white piece from Mecox Gardens—offer contrast while remaining open and airy. Photos by John Gruen
See more of Matthew Patrick Smyth’s design in this Westport home.
