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Paintable papers, metallic prints and more trends coming to a wall near you.
We all know that wallpaper can add instant glamour and warmth to any room, but homeowners used it timidly in 2010. Expect that to change in 2011. "People are finally moving away from just a feature wall and are once again wallpapering two, three and four walls in a room," says David Klaus at Graham & Brown wallpaper company.
Fewer accent walls and more fully papered rooms are cropping up in homes and magazine spreads as of late, along with a handful of "mini trends" in wallpaper design that we've rounded up here. While we started to see some of these trends at the end of 2010, experts bet they'll pick up even more steam in the months to come.
Here, a look at wallpaper trends to inspire you.
Paintable Papers
It's the perfect hybrid between painting a wall and wallpapering it, and for the non-commital decorators among us, more brands are turning out the totally customizable, textured designs. Graham & Brown, for instance, recently launched a collection called "Jana", right, a geometric print that can be both painted and washed (hello, sophisticated kid's room). Grandin Road's "Beadboard Paintable Wallpaper," left, gives the illusion of beadboard trim, minus the costly woodworking.
These clever wallcoverings aren't just the work of high-end wallpaper designers either. Big box stores like Target and Home Depot, who carries over thirty designs including Martha Stewart's collection, stock them.
Tone-on-Tone & Metallic
If 2010 was the year of large scale patterns, a wide range of colors and quirky, highly individualized designs (like Beware the Moon's Ostrich collection), then 2011 is definitely dialing it back a bit, says Christiana Coop, co-owner of Hygge & West and the U.S. rep for Ferm Living.
Think subtly bold designs, such as the textured, paintable ones we mentioned earlier, as well as tone-on-tone patterns and shiny metallics, above. Hygge & West has a great example in the works by Pattern People, slated to debut in February. It features enameled black-on-black with a metallic finish and comes in three designs -- Forest Floor, Flower Chains and Underwater World.
We all know that wallpaper can add instant glamour and warmth to any room, but homeowners used it timidly in 2010. Expect that to change in 2011. "People are finally moving away from just a feature wall and are once again wallpapering two, three and four walls in a room," says David Klaus at Graham & Brown wallpaper company.
Fewer accent walls and more fully papered rooms are cropping up in homes and magazine spreads as of late, along with a handful of "mini trends" in wallpaper design that we've rounded up here. While we started to see some of these trends at the end of 2010, experts bet they'll pick up even more steam in the months to come.
Here, a look at wallpaper trends to inspire you.
Photos: Grandin Road; Graham & Brown
It's the perfect hybrid between painting a wall and wallpapering it, and for the non-commital decorators among us, more brands are turning out the totally customizable, textured designs. Graham & Brown, for instance, recently launched a collection called "Jana", right, a geometric print that can be both painted and washed (hello, sophisticated kid's room). Grandin Road's "Beadboard Paintable Wallpaper," left, gives the illusion of beadboard trim, minus the costly woodworking.
These clever wallcoverings aren't just the work of high-end wallpaper designers either. Big box stores like Target and Home Depot, who carries over thirty designs including Martha Stewart's collection, stock them.
Photos: Ferm Living
If 2010 was the year of large scale patterns, a wide range of colors and quirky, highly individualized designs (like Beware the Moon's Ostrich collection), then 2011 is definitely dialing it back a bit, says Christiana Coop, co-owner of Hygge & West and the U.S. rep for Ferm Living.
Think subtly bold designs, such as the textured, paintable ones we mentioned earlier, as well as tone-on-tone patterns and shiny metallics, above. Hygge & West has a great example in the works by Pattern People, slated to debut in February. It features enameled black-on-black with a metallic finish and comes in three designs -- Forest Floor, Flower Chains and Underwater World.
Photos: Graham & Brown
Maybe it's a result of the slow home movement or the overall affinity for handmade design that we've seen in recent years, but the trends in wallpaper are following suit. Graham & Brown's new Elixir collection is hand-drawn and features more classic patterns than modern ones, like florals and geometrics, above. All Hygge & West papers are made using a traditional screen printed technique, for example, rendering a more hand-painted feel. "I think the quality of the design with screen printing is higher than digital printing, plus it creates texture and feels warmer," Coop says.
Our current, albeit made-in-2010 obsession? This Petal Pusher design by Oh Joy!
Photos: House Beautiful
This is a trend I picked up on while perusing the first glossies of the new year. Interior designer Windsor Smith used Bennison's Roses wallpaper and then covered the home's dining chairs in an identical fabric, in a feature for House Beautiful magazine, above. Interiors magazine's January 2011 issue features the same technique by designers Silvia Oliveira and Daniela Martins who matched window treatments with wallpaper in a bedroom they outfitted in Brazil.