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100+ Wow-Worthy Wallpaper Ideas for Every Room

From quiet textures to statement-making graphics, nothing transforms a space like wallpaper. To help find the right paper for your rooms, we've gathered scores of wallpaper ideas from your favorite designers.
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.

IN THIS FEATURE

WALLPAPER IDEAS FOR BATHROOMS & POWDER ROOMS

A blue mosaic tile covers the bottom half of a bright bathroom.
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.

Piet Oudolf gardens at his home in Hummelo
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.”

Another view of a master bath designed by James Farmer, featuring a furniture-like vanity painted white and a brown and white botanical-print Roman shade that complements the wallpaper.
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

See more of the Martin home. 

Powder room with green, large-scale Gucci botanical wallpaper above wainscoting. Antique chest adapted for sink holds a vase of anemones, hydrangea flowers and ranunculus.
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

See more of this Colonial home makeover.

A wallpaper featuring of print of large green tropical leaves covers the powder room walls
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.”

Crane wallpaper and marble sink in a Summer Thornton designed bath
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.”

Ferrick Mason Good Fortune wallpaper in a bathroom
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.

Graphic black and white wallpaper outside the tile shower of a bathroom designed by Liz Caan.
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.

A blue floral wallpaper envelopes a powder room.
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.

"The powder room wallpaper is based on a Venetian palazzo, and the printed velvet depicts my grandmother’s crazy quilt that I still own.” Turquoise foo dogs stand guard atop brackets.
“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.

Alexandra Naranjo designed bathroom with bold tropical flower wallpaper at the Palm Beach Kips Bay Showhouse.
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

See more from the 2021 Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House.

Cece Barfield Thompson
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.

guest bath designed by Denise McGaha
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.

Flower magazine showhouse at Brierfield, guest bath sink vanity and mirror
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 this powder room, a Thomas Strahan wallpaper aptly named Farmer adds a touch of whimsy.
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.

luxury powder room
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

See more of Tina Yaraghi’s home.

powder room wallpaper
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

Bedroom with antique bed and dark wainscoting with John Derian for Designers Guild Butterfly Studies wallpaper on wall.
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

Three wreaths hang in a bedroom with blue floral wallpaper.
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.

Bedroom with Marthe Armitage floral in blue and white covering the walls. A pair of beds with pink headboards flank a chest.
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.

most popular gardens
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.

Sitting area in front of fireplace in primary bedroom with Indian inspired pink wallpaper.
“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.

water features, Newport's Blue Garden
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.

Chest topped with globe, mirror, and lamp with drum shade in boys' bedroom. Woodland wallpaper in blues and greens on wall.

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.

Chest topped with globe, mirror, and lamp with drum shade in boys' bedroom. Woodland wallpaper in blues and greens on wall.
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.

yellow bedroom decorated by Veere Greeney featuring a pair a twin wrought iron canopy beds, and yellow drapes with a tailored valance
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.

Blue florals cover Liz Lange's bedspread, walls, and ceilings in her bedroom.
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.

Bedroom with bright yellow floral wallpaper designed by Dina Bandman for Kips Bay Dallas showhouse 2020
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.

provencal-style bedroom in home of interior designer Alix Rico
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.

Child's bedroom with canopy over daybed and Liberty Obi Stripe wallpaper in Fennel on wall and ceiling.
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
master bedroom designed by Matthew Patrick Smyth
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.

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