Use wallpaper behind a headboard for big impact
Over at The Design File, I’ve been slowly showing off photos I took recently at the Residences at Allen Plaza, a condo building developed by J. Greg Allen in downtown Indianapolis.
But today, rather than focusing on a particular condo, I want to use the beautiful bedrooms to highlight what I think is a fun design idea: A feature wall of wallpaper.
Designers Shannon Roark of Interior Life and Matty Bennett of Sequences Design used this technique throughout these fantastic condos to bring some drama to beds that were otherwise rather ordinary. It worked wonders.
Check out the room at right. This bedroom had a very simple headboard. But with the addition of the white and silver wallpaper behind it, the simplicity becomes intentional and the wall becomes a focal point.
Plus, using paper on just one wall is an easy way to get a big bang for little money and work. And when you’re using wallpaper in a small space, you can try something a little wild, bold or unusual.
Check out the bedroom below. It would be tough to use this bold print throughout an entire room. But on wall behind the bed, it pulls this black, white and pink room together.
But you don’t have to be quite so bold to create a feature wall. In the photo below, the gray papered wall is in a similar tone as the blue paint so the overall effect is much more subtle.
Finally, the photos below show a great compromise between bold and subtle. The gray pattern on the chocolate brown background is nearly a match for the painted walls. But the pattern is so bold that it still makes a big statement in the room.
Are you willing to try some wallpaper? If so, how do you plan to use it?
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