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Wool-Covered Walls: Cozy or Claustrophobic?

Faux Fireplaces
Roundup

Whether you have an existing non-functioning fireplace that needs some help or are looking to add a focal point and cozy atmosphere to your living space — check out these ideas for faux firepl...

Curated Wall Decals from Bodega at Arkitip

Further proof that vinyl wall decals aren't just for kids anymore: Bodega unveils a "curated collection of large scale, eco-friendly, temporary indoor art" by Barry McGee, Cody Hudson and other arti...

DIY Kitchen Wallpaper: Vintage Recipe Cards

This wall treatment using vintage recipe cards in the kitchen of a Providence art space reminds us of Depression-Era interiors where newspapers were often used as wallpaper. While the results might ...

Dealing with Flocked Wallpaper in a Bathroom?
Good Questions

Q: I'm in the process of potentially buying a new place. It'll take a lot of work, but most of the tune-ups I have figured out. What's most confounding, though, is the flocking in a bathroom. I apprec...

Wallpaper With Storage: Pocket Wall by Maja Ganszyniec

This is an interesting concept — designer Maja Ganszyniec has morphed the idea of wallpaper, pegboard and storage pockets into a single product: Pocket Wall....

The Colorful & Creepy Interiors of Suspiria

Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic, Suspiria, is one of our Halloween DVD musts — not for the ridiculous amount of gore or the kooky plot line — but for the over-the-top color-sa...

Decorative Frame Wallpaper from Ballard Designs

Like Kirsten Hassenfeld’s paper sculptures that we wrote about yesterday, this wallpaper from Ballard Designs takes the idea of ornate decoration for its own sake to an extreme, but at the same ti...

Surreal Design for the Home: Antoine + Manuel

French designers Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz create fantastical furniture and wall decoration which seem a natural extension of the supremely creative graphic design work they’ve been churnin...

Hot or Not? Painting Over Textured Wallpaper

On a recent house hunt we spotted tons of textured wallpaper that made us cringe, but when we saw this raised pattern paper painted all-over white we thought it looked, well … kind of good. What d...

How-To Wallpaper Video by Ferm Living

We all know wallpaper has made a comeback. Thankfully, some of the newer wallpapers allow you to apply paste directly to the wall instead of to the back of the paper. We just discovered a hip, fun...

Simple Elegance: Eno Henze Rethinks Wall Art

Elegance in design is a rarity, at best. But when it happens, you can tell it all hinges on a simple, distilled idea. Enter Berlin artist Eno Henze. His idea is that the aesthetic evidence of how th...

Carved Wallpaper: Iconic Panels by B+N

What's even better than beautiful, graphic wallpaper? 3-Dimensional graphic wallpaper! One look at these "Iconic Panels" by B+N and we were done for. The panels are created using an innovative proce...

Angela Adams Climbs the Wall: Eco-Friendly Wallpapers

Oh, Angela, how we adore your abstract nature patterns, your soft and subtle colorways, and — wait, what? Now you're making sustainable wallpaper? It's currently offered to the trade only but ...

Affordable Wallpaper: Concert Posters

Wallpaper fever may have peaked but it has by no means passed. We're still seeing fantastic new designs everywhere, including some in unexpected mediums like concert posters. We love posters —...

Good Questions: Identify this fabric/ wallpaper?

Where can I find this fabric or wallpaper? (It appeared in this post about combining the colors orange and gray.) Thanks! Heather (Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted ...