Graham and Brown Midsummer
1. Designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has a great selection of wallpaper options available. The Navonna design, shown here in bitter chocolate gets its inspiration from Northern Italy.
The chocolate brown background is coupled with swirls, dots and other patterns in cream and lighter shades of brown. It would look great used as a statement wall in a room decorated in neutral shades, or in a chocolate themed room.
The Navonna bitter chocolate wallpaper is availale from TotallyHome, in lengths of 10m, for £24.99.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Navonna wallpaper
2. This Fioretti wallpaper features a striking purple background with a large gold and black flower-like design printed on it. Seen close up, the purple seems quite bright, but when you see it in place on the wall, the colour seems softer.
Either way, if you’d like this wallpaper on your wall, it costs £47 for a 10m roll from Fabrics and Papers.
Fioretti purple and gold wallpaper
Wall adorned with Fioretti wallpaper
3. Graham and Brown have designed a whole range of wallpaper for Monsoon, including this Chrysanthemum print.
The idea for the big and bold floral print was gained from 19th century Japanese textiles. It’s been given a modern touch by using monotone colours - charcoal and white - and would give a bold look to a wall.
The chrysanthemum wallpaper can be purchased from TotallyHome, in 10m lengths, for the special offer price of £12.99.
Graham and Brown Chrysanthemum wallpaper
4. Graham and Brown are keen to invest in young design talent, so challenged students from the world famous Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design to come up with some new designs, based on an eco theme.
They eventually chose six winning designs, including this cool modern Fossil design by Andrea Sallee. The simple wallpaper design highlights the natural beauty found in fossils and reminds us about the footprints we leave behind. The neutral white and pale blue colour scheme allows the paper to work effectively on walls in many rooms of the house and you can either use it with the middle angles of the fossil design joining together (see the individual paper picture, where they form small circles in the middle), or as strips all angled to face out in one direction.
10m rolls of Andrea Sallee’s Fossil wallpaper cost £30 and can be purchased from Graham and Brown.
Andrea Sallee Fossil wallpaper
Fossil paper in a bedroom
5. Mode are one of the key players in the wallpaper world and one of our favourite wallpapers is the Manderley, especially in the claret and gold colourway.
It’s a large scale floral design, with big, warm claret flowers, and gold metallic shimming leaves, to give it an antique edge. It would equally well used in an entire room, as it would as a single statement wall.
The Manderley claret and gold paper normally costs £24.99 for 10m, but if you buy it from TotallyHome, it’s currently on offer at £12.99 (bargain!).
Mode Manderley claret and gold wallpaper
6. Originally a fashion illustrator, Barbara Hulanicki has been designing interiors since the 90s and now creates highly fashionable, fresh and modern wallpaper designs.
Here Viva design is a modern black and silver square print vinyl wallpaper, which is slightly celtic in nature and very dramatic when in use. The wallpaper is available in rolls of 10m, usually retailing at about £24.99, but if you buy it from InspireMyHome, it’s currently on offer for £19.99.
Barbara Hulanicki Viva wallpaper
If the black and silver isn’t quite to your taste, the Viva design wallpaper is also available in light blue and silver.
Viva in blue and silver
7. For a modern, industrial look, which wouldn’t look out of place in an urban open living environment, how about the Hemingway Concrete Grey wallpaper?
As the name suggests, it’s made to look like concrete, with vertical panels running down the wall. Don’t let the concrete idea put you off, as it’s surprisingly light in shading and works very effectively. The paper comes in rolls of 10m and you can purchase this print from Godfrey’s Diy for £24.99.
Hemingway Concrete Grey wallpaper
8. If vivid geometric prints are your cup of tea, then you’ll love this vibrant, busy wallpaper from Basso and Brooke.
The multicolour wallpaper, Soma, features a range of geometric shapes that are neatly joined together in an abstract pattern. It’s the type of wallpaper you can look at for hours and always see something different or start guessing what the individual shapes are (some people think there are skateboards in there, others see shields, pacman, cameras and more).
The Basso and Brooke Soma multicoloured wallpaper is available in 10m lengths, for £22 per roll, from Wallpaper Direct.
Basso and Brooke Soma multi wallpaper
9. The Ornate wallpaper, in this lovely rich blue, was created by fashion designer, Julien Macdonald. The design is based on ornate, decorative architecture, but although its origins may be old, it works very effectively in modern, contemporary homes - especially when used alongside fresh, minimalist white.
The Ornate wallpaper comes in rolls of 10m and can be purchased from Select Wallpaper for £21.95.
Julien Macdonald Ornate blue wallpaper
10. For a more natural and neutral wallpaper, that still has a hint of pattern and interest in it, but without being overpowering, then this Sirena wallpaper by Harlequin is ideal.
The neutral background is enhanced by a stylish, gentle curving leaf print. The colours are described as vanilla and gold and it’s from the Romanie collection (alternatively, it’s also available in Mocha or black and gold, for a more striking look).
The Sirena wallpaper can be purchased from John Lewis and is priced at £29.
Harlequin Sirena wallpaper
