Bring in the outdoors with nature-inspired wallpaper. Here are 13 standout examples: whole rooms and single walls alive with leafy branches, birds, and butterflies.
Above: A dining room wall featuring hand-painted wallpaper by de Gournay, a British luxury interiors company, specializing in wallpaper and more. Photograph via House to Home.
Above: Lou Archell's dining area is covered in Willow Boughs, a William Morris pattern available at Wallpaper Direct. Photograph via Design Sponge. LA stylist/designer Estee Stanley used the same paper in her Hancock Park Home.
Above: A wall in Michelle McKenna's London kitchen is dressed up with a Chinoiserie panel from Fromental. Photograph by Emma Lee.
Above: Nature enters a bedroom in New York's Chelsea by way of hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper. Interior design and photograph by Suzanne Shaker via 1st Dibs.
Above: A guest bedroom in Tiina Laakonen and Jon Rosen's Hamptons house is clad in Apollo, a midcentury butterfly print by Finnish artist Rut Bryk. Contact Tiina the Store for details about the wallpaper and other Finnish patterns. Photograph by François Halard for T Magazine.
Above: In another bedroom Tiina Laakonen paired a black version of Rut Bryk's butterfly design with Night of the Skylarks by Birger Kaipiainen. Contact Tiina the Store for purchase information. Tour the whole compound in the Remodelista book. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Above: For a master bedroom in a Brooklyn loft, husband-and-wife team Marco Pasanella and Rebecca Robertson covered a master bedroom wall in Cole & Son Woods wallpaper. See more in A Whimsical Family Loft in Brooklyn, Whale Wallpaper Included. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Above: Dan Funderburgh, a Brooklyn illustrator, artist, and wallpaper designer, is the mastermind behind Cooperage, shown here in a suite at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn.
Above: At St. Alban Coffee in Charleston, North Carolina, gray paneling is paired with Adam's Eden wallpaper from UK company Lewis & Wood. Photograph via @TheOlive_mj on Instagram.
Above: Catarina Skoglund's home is papered in classic Josef Frank patterns. See more of her home in our post Steal This Look: An Anglo-inspired Kitchen in Gothenburg. Photograph via Skoglund's Swedish blog Lovely Life.
Above: Swedish company Sandberg's Raphael wallpaper pattern evokes 18th-century French tapestries. In the US, Sandberg wallpapers and fabrics are available through the Scandinavian Design Center.
Above: London designer Michelle McKenna's sons' room is papered in Paradiset, a fanciful Josef Frank pattern from Svenst Tenn in Stockholm. Tour the whole townhouse in the Remodelista book and our post The Power of Pastels. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Above: Rebel Walls of Sweden offers wall coverings featuring outdoor scenes. Bellewood, a modern toile, depicts a mysterious forest.
For more wallpaper inspiration, take a look at:
- 5 Favorites: Leafy Wallpaper Patterns
- Escape to the Tropics: Paper Mills' Handmade Wallpaper
- The World's Best Rose Wallpaper
- Shadows on a Wall in Autumn: Wallpaper from Callidus Guild
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