Museum-Worthy Wallpaper Was the Exact Ingredient That This Kitchen Was Missing

I love when a wallpaper brings a whole room together (like the wallpaper that perfectly ties in the yellow sinks in this bathroom makeover, for example). It can be hard to imagine what some rooms looked like before the addition of their wallpaper — and I think that’s true of this kitchen makeover from DIYer Megan Zeitz, too. 

Megan’s floral wallpaper was the perfect find, actually, because it tied in the initial lilac color she had painted the kitchen walls — and it worked perfectly with the paint color she pivoted to in the end (a dark cinnamon shade; Behr’s Red Chipotle). That shade also happens to be the color of her cabinets!

This wallpaper is special because it matches with almost any color and it’s renter-friendly. It also costs $50 per square meter, so it’s cheaper than a very similar wallpaper I’ve seen and love. It gives a sort of colorful, Klimt-esque, Art Nouveau garden-inspired look. 

Megan says the wallpaper makes her kitchen feel “like standing in a terracotta pot looking up through the flowers,” as she previously told AT. “It’s whimsical, eclectic, and full of life.”

WallpaperMural sells the Eurydice pattern in panels, and there are peel-and stick wallpaper, peel-and-stick vinyl, and pasted-on options. Megan and her husband, Dave, opted for the pasted-on version but have successfully removed pasted wallpaper in a rental before with a steamer, some careful pulling, and some vinegar to help remove any remaining adhesive. 

“Wallpaper a ceiling was a new one for us,” Megan told AT.  “It’s definitely a two-person job … I highly recommend push pins in the corners while the paper is curing.” (The beauty of this pattern is that a tiny pushpin hole would not be noticeable at all!) 

And it’s likely not Megan’s last time wallpapering a ceiling. “While it’s a little time-consuming, it’s not as hard as I expected it to be, so I might have to do more in the near future,” she says. 

For more wallpaper on the ceiling inspo, check out these three kitchens and these 10 striking ceilings.