I am a big fan of the single accent wall with wallpaper. It is also much more cost effective. Also, you can afford to splurge on a nicer paper if you are only doing one wall. I am getting ready to do a single wall in my new place this fall.

This is back again? My mother did this in our dining room circa 1972.

I really hate this look, even more than the painted accent wall. I picked up some British shelter mag a few months back (Ideal Home?) and literally every house had a wallpaper feature wall. Most of the time I think it looks really incomplete, and the corners where the wallpaper stops are so odd. Like a sentence with no punctuation at the end. An exception might be on an architectural element, like the bump out with the fireplace.

loooove the kitchen, very glam. Comes across as a painting there. Agree that this effect looks best on a bump-out or in an alcove. The dining room looks really imbalanced and unfinished to me. That said I have one wall of my living room covered in orange satin, one exposed brick and two light green---with tons of doorways somehow it works.

I love an accent wall, but it has to be balanced with the rest of the room. And it seems smarter to use fabric and apply it with liquid starch. Wallpaper is such a drag to take down.

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I want those green chairs.

I do like it in #6 and #8 because the surrounding walls are the same color as the background of the wallpaper. It's more of an extension of the headboard/couch.

But when the other walls are neutral? It's just paper instead of paint as an accent wall and I'm not a fan.

I am really not liking this. It reminds me of some very bad 1970s decorating. Sorry.

It actually reminds me of really awesome 1970's decorating! I love it- especially the "Revolutionary Ideas" wall in gold. looks so rich, in a good way.

I love #8 - that's a beautiful room, and since the other walls are the same color, the wallpaper adds texture instead of a color shock.

I am a big fan of the single accent wall look. I live in an old farm house built c. 1850. The house is naturally pretty dark and shadowy inside. The darkness makes four walls of the jewel tones I really love a little clautrophobic. Thus, the accent wall! I hope this trend doesn't go out any time soon.

I LOVE it. I think I need a wallpapered accent wall within the week.

Hmmm. Now, which wall, which wall.........

When this works, it is great. When it doesn't, it really bombs. The successful spaces are #1, 2, 5, 6, and 10. And they work for different reasons.

Some work because the architecture supports the idea. Sometimes the space has a distinct area defined (#2), and other times the lack of definition makes it work (#10). But note that #9 also has a lack of definition, yet the approach does not work well in that space.

Some work because the wallpaper style serves as a counterpoint to the space and its contents (#6), and others work because the wallpaper is consistent with the overall design (#5).

It seems like this would be easy to pull off, but there are a lot of variables at play. Architecture, color, scale, the style of the space and the wallpaper… everything has to come together. I think it is tough to get this right.

green chairs!

i hate this look. i say go big or go home. if your space can't handle a pattern on the walls (which should be broken up by furniture, drapes, mirrors, artwork, lighting), then it can't handle one wall of it either, IMO... it just looks uncommitted and unfinished.