Teens and young kids are notorious for using their wall space in their bedrooms to express themselves, but when we get older and can actually do anything we want to our bedroom walls, why do so few of us actually take advantage of it? I'm not suggesting that the walls be strewn with magazine clippings (unless that's your thing in which case — go for it!), but the bold look of wallpaper can add some fun to the one room in the house that is most personally yours.
TOP ROW
1 Gum Leaves Paper available from Moore & Moore
2 Diane Stafford via Design Sponge
3 Stylist Stellan Herner via Skarp
4 KFD Designs
5 Tempa Paper Designs
BOTTOM ROW
6 Stylist Ilse Crawford via NY Times T Magazine
7 Lordship Park Wallpaper via House to Home
8 Tim Beddo for Architectural Digest via This is Glamorous
9 Stylist Shaun Jackson via Decor Pad
10 Rollout Custom Paper for Jess Lorass via Design Sponge
(Images: as linked)
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I was looking at wallpaper for a bathroom recently and couldn't get over how much that first one looks like semen (I was into it at first).
I love wallpaper in the bedroom. It can really transform a somewhat boring room into something with style. And, if you're like me and prefer plain bedding, wallpaper will add extra depth and interest in the room. Great post!
But wallpaper can be awfully AWFULLY expensive if you want something that looks alright and will come off reasonably easily if you get tired of it later. My solution? A stencil - they've come a long way since the duckies and tulips of yore. I used a large scale damask-style print on a wall painted a very soft pearly grey. Picked up a metallic paint from Benjamin Moore ("Snowflake") and ended up with a gorgeous all-over pattern that catches the light and adds just that lovely hint of soft glamour that makes a bedroom a great place just to lounge around in. Total cost? Around $100. If I'd gone the wallpaper route, I'd be parting with that per roll - and I had 18 x 8 ft to cover. Spendy.
I agree that wallpaper can be really expensive if your taste changes quickly. I'm contemplating that Paris wallpaper but I know it's way too expensive so I'm not even going to inquire about it. Not even going there.
haha, I'm with mama gigi, the first one totally reminded me of semen (it actually looks like tadpoles in the water, but in my brain that automatically translates into semen).
I really really love that map paper, but I'd rather just get a huge framed print to hang than actually paste it onto the walls. I'm too cheap to hire a professional, and too clumsy to trust my own skills at applying it, especially if I am paying out the ass for the paper. It's beautiful, but I'll stick with some nice plain colors and enough art to keep it interesting.
#4, which I love, isn't wallpaper, but high gloss design painted over a flat paint.
The map paper is fantastic, too.
The black and white one that resembles toile is a bit of a wild goose chase to track down, couldn't find it anywhere, even following the links. I like it.
Samara
The trees are amazing.
The Ilse Crawford room knocked me off my feet! I should have known it was English. I went to the NY Times design article and saw the other photos. A perfect converted manor with 23 acres. Obviously over the top, but an inspiration nonetheless.
After buying a 3,000 sq ft house 25 years ago (3 generations living there, so don't judge) I removed wallpaper from EVERY SINGLE WALL. It took MONTHS! Now that the kids are gone and the grandparents are, uh, "gone"... my husband and I moved into a cottage which, while tempting--- will never, ever, have wallpaper on it.
That first one *does* look like sperm...
Personally, I'd go with one of these from Timorous Beasties (de Gournay being way beyond my budget):
http://www.timorousbeasties.com/shop/wallcoverings/45/oriental-orchid-hand-print/ (in the dark grey colourway)
http://www.timorousbeasties.com/shop/wallcoverings/70/birds-n-bees/
http://www.timorousbeasties.com/shop/wallcoverings/71/butterflies/
Or, there's always this rather bawdy toile de joui:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/at-europe-paris-17-33996
These are shown in almost exact order of how much I like them, starting with "least" (sperm party). #3 seems a bit busy for such an unrelievedly broad wall; maybe a large mirror or painting would interrupt the endless pattern repeats and block the vertigo. #6 is a divine statement worthy of that majestic bed, but the bareness of the room says "We've already spent all our money on the bed and wallpaper."