The Wallpaper Trick That Wows An A to Z Guide |
Posted: April 19, 2018 |
“I used to fear it,” said New York interior designer Phillip Thomas. But water-soluble adhesives have supplanted oil-based pastes, he noted, making for easier paper removal that’s kinder to drywall. Now that you can strip a room in only a few hours, he no longer shrinks from committing his clients to wallpaper. Upping the ante, Mr. Thomas and his professional peers have taken to hanging more than one pattern in a single room—a bravado move in keeping with the eclectic exuberance of maximalism that has replaced the measured neutrality of recent decades. “Mixing wallpapers, especially motifs with different patterns and scales, creates a chic ‘jewelry box’ look,” said Kirill Istomin, based in Moscow and New York. With this grand gesture, you can update a room. “You have to bring visual texture to a space,” said Mr. Thomas, and a maximalist duet of wallpapers is one way. “Then you can keep the palette of fabrics simple and create a successful space.” The new, vast selection of papers is energizing designers, said industry veteran Dennis Shah, president of Studio Printworks in Hoboken, N.J. His company creates handmade papers via centuries-old processes such as block and screen printing, but he has also invested in digital printers, which can produce giant seamless panels, scale designs up and down to fit any wall and achieve effects not possible with analog methods, such as subtle watercolor-esque gradations and razor-sharp photorealism. With this flexibility, “designers are excited, unusual ideas are coming to fruition and rules are being broken,” said Mr. Shah. Indeed, powered in part by the ease of browsing and purchasing online, the wallcoverings industry is bouncing back after decades in the doldrums, said P.J. Delaye, president of York Wallcoverings in York, Penn., the largest U.S. manufacturer. His firm has seen wallcovering sales increase 6% over each of the past five years. Over the same five years, a 27% jump in wallpaper sales to the hospitality and commercial realms (where trends that spread to homes typically surface) “speaks to where the residential market is going,” said Matt Bruno, head of the Wallcoverings Association. Braver souls can choose two or more patterns that share a color scheme. In his small TV room, also shown here, Martyn Lawrence Bullard of Los Angeles stuck to gray palettes, covering the walls with a Moorish geometric print and the ceiling with a striped pattern that mimics the look of Bedouin tents (both options come from his eponymous to-the-trade line). As a finishing touch, he bordered the two papers with black gift wrap. “It’s like a Moroccan womb,” he said. The truly intrepid can take a third tack: outfitting a room with two or more disparate wallcoverings in a wide range of patterns and hues that hang together thematically. Designer Solange Azagury-Partridge nailed this approach in her polychrome English country home. The key to working with seemingly chaotic mixes, she noted, lies in choosing papers with similar stylistic influences (all 1960s modern, for example). In her bedecked bedroom and its adjoining hallway, shown here, the walls all speak with an Asian inflection; she combined a wallpaper printed with a bamboo-trellis design and ornate chinoiserie fabrics found on eBay. Repeated notes of orange-red and citron also help the surfaces feel unified—and entrancing. “Sometimes when I’m supposed to be watching television, I’ll just be looking at the wallpaper,” Ms. Azagury-Partridge said. So how does the design fan who’s barely warmed to the idea of pattern on the wall navigate the options? Draw on this field guide to the flora, fauna and wild cards of the wallcovering world, with tips on how to master mixing. Peoples can download all types of wallpapers for mobile as set mobile wallpaper from this url.
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