After 15 years of renting apartments — and not being allowed to hang wallpaper — I was thrilled when we moved to our current apartment and could try some out! Here are a few beauties…
Thoughts? Do you have any wallpaper you love?
P.S. More pretty children’s wallpaper, and amazing shared kids’ rooms.
(Top photo of Swansy wallpaper by Kate Zaremba.)
That’s a really nice one! I love it
Full confession – I take screenshots of wallpaper to use as my phone wallpaper. It makes me smile and I love the pretty patterns!
Whoever came up with the idea of wallpapers is a genius and has a special seat in heaven,lol….they are soo great.
We love our Quentin Blake Cockatoo wallpaper! My husband loves Roahl Dahl and QB is the artist for many of his editions. Osborne & Little have a few QB wallpapers — they’re all very charming.
Last year our then-6-year old twins moved into their own bedrooms, and my daughter requested “dragon” wallpaper in hers. I was skeptical but then found this one — and we did it one wall:
https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/ming-dragon-wallpaper?category=nature-wallpaper&color=041
She loves it and so do I. Also, tip — turns out there are less expensive places than Anthro to get this paper (although I love browsing the wallpapers on their site).
We moved from NYC to the burbs in late 2018, and installed this wallpaper on one wall of our son’s room: https://www.muralswallpaper.com/shop-murals/graph-paper-blue-map-wall-mural/
I LOVE IT!!!
I’m literally about to order a mural from them. Did you do the install yourself or hire someone? I’m curious how difficult it is…
Hannah, we hired someone. My husband wanted to try to do it ourselves, but I would like to stay married, so I veto’d that idea! I think it would be too much to do alone…. but I love the way it looks!!!
Another great place is Flavor Paper – their shop in Brooklyn is very cool!
https://www.flavorpaper.com/wallpaper
So much pretty wallpapers! Avocados wall is amazing!
I grew up in Russia with gorgeous wallpaper in most rooms. In my own condo, however, I have birch decals on my living room wall: https://www.mangotomato.com/2019/01/upcycle-pallet-coffee-table-on-pin-legs.html
Wallpaper is SO much fun! Let me know if you ever need anything ?
Love the one in the first image!
For those of you in the UK:
https://www.eleanorbowmer.co.uk/collections/wallpaper
Her work is gorgeous, and I think a couple of the wallpapers could also do a bold tiny guest WC.
Beautiful!
This one from Ferm Living is my absolute Fav https://www.fermliving.de/webshop/shop/tapete/katie-scott-wallpaper-animal-blue.aspx
I would want one of these for my grown-up bedroom! I have so many memories of playing “in” the wallpapers, (my brother had a jungle book wallpaper, so amazing).
I just revisited your home tour, such a lovely aesthetic you have. I have to ask: did you ever find the remote to the big black box?
just bought a house and spent $4500 on 5 layers of wallpaper removal. Would only recommend the temporary sort. :)
We’re planning to use this in “ink” for the third floor bathroom of our 100+ year old home:
https://bradbury.com/victorian/persian_star_cd.html
Hope it a lends a whimsical feel while remaining authentic to the age of our home. Planning to color match the navy shade for the ceiling and our clawfoot tub!
these are so beautiful!! I’ve been on sabbatical and am so ready to have my own space again. In the meantime I’m working on clutter – less stuff to move and a happier me! — https://tps-steph.blogspot.com/2019/05/0035-clutter-is.html
Did you ever find the missing remote??
Sharks for Anton!
Whoa, LOVE starry sky!
Makes me want a house with a hundred rooms!
I always feel like that! I live in a one bedroom condo and would love a few extra rooms to decorate on someone else’s budget ;)
Contemplating being an expat renter for a few years and want to hear whether anyone has experience with removable wallpaper. We’ve used vinyl wall art before successfully (if walls are flat vs the bumpy plaster in our current owned house) but haven’t tried big murals or wall paper that is supposed to be removable. Move would be to a very rules enforcing country so don’t want to get it wrong. What has been your experience?
Welcome to Singapore ;)
The starry sky! Perfect!
Some of my favorite wallpaper for kids AND adults is from Makelike Studio in Portland, Oregon. I put the tree paper in my son’s room, and it’s like he’s sleeping in a forest. http://www.makelike.com/wallpaper
Not wallpaper specifically, but Minted is now carrying amazing wall murals for kids rooms!
https://www.minted.com/kids-wall-murals?feature=banner%3A+wall+murals&event=click&t_api=1
Love those sharks!!!! Wish my boys were little again!!! That could be fun in a bathroom on one wall?!
I really love that idea! Even if the rest of your house doesn’t lean toward whimsical, a bathroom is a good place to have a little fun :)
OMG that Kate Zaremba wallpaper is amazing. I ordered a poster-sized 24″ x 36″ avocado piece to hang in my kitchen.
I don’t have terrible painful memories of removing the wallpaper in our 118 year old house because it came off in FULL SHEETS. The guy who hung it signed the wall behind it and I can understand why, because he’s legendary in our house now.
We used this wallpaper in my daughter’s nursery
https://www.houzz.com/product/62080546-portraits-wallpaper-contemporary-wallpaper
I’m so in love with it. We are considering moving and I’ve told my husband that one of my conditions is that we wallpaper her new room with this print.
The starry night OMG you have created a need in me now
After peeling off two layers of old-fashioned paper wall paper including ceilings, I don’t want it for my self. I still need to take off the wallpaper in my sewing room, but I keep putting it off, because, again, 2 layers plus ceiling. We painted over it 36 years ago when our first was born. I like it in other people’s homes, and there are pretty patterns today, but it’s not for me.
Glad I’m not the only one.
Me too! Iām older (63) and lived through the 80ās where we wallpapered everything! Itās pretty to look at, but too hard to change.
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