Not sure if you picked it up but wallpaper week has been trending big time on Twitter in the last few days. Everyone is talking about their favourite wallpapers, from BBC1 The One Show to Chris Evans on his radio show. So what is going on? International wallpaper company Graham & Brown is behind all the hype! G&B launched the first ever international wallpaper week, now in its second year!
People got talking about wallpaper outside of the usual channels of home décor and design media. G&B even launched a campaign where models wore outfits made from the latest wallpaper collections of the company. Loved the concept by the way!
Wallpaper is such a fun way to update your interiors in a way that you could never achieve with just paint. Enfant terrible Kylie Jenner has one such unusual wallpaper in her recently listed $3.9M Californian mansion: Barbara Hulanicki's skulls wallpaper covers all walls in her bathroom. This happens to be Andrew Graham's MBE (Chief Executive of Graham & Brown) favourite wallpaper too!
So if we're talking about wallpapers, we might as well talk about the trendiest wallpapers right now. I love them all so no need to number them in any particular order. They're all unique and range from moody, to light to totally in your face.
Talking about Graham & Brown, their latest collection comes straight from their archives and has been given a modern take thanks to 2LovelyGays, the interior designers that are set to making living lovely! The wall below actually shows two wallpapers: the Joy (floral) and the Rebecca (stripes) in blue. I love the combination, it's genius.
Above: Joy and Rebecca in Blue, photo credit Graham & Brown/2LG
Next up, a beautiful and intricate wallpaper design from Laura Allen from The Graduate Collection. It's called "LEMUR". Exotic leaves, bright tropical flowers, butterflies and of course a lemur adorn this richly coloured tropical wallpaper.
Laura's detailed illustrations combined with pastel pink coloured background and a linear design create the perfect conversational wallpaper for both traditional and contemporary interiors. The pink background in this colour way is just so girly ad fabulous.
Staying with the TROPICAL theme, Timorous Beasties launched a super wide wallpaper called "Topical Tropical" (below). I prefer it in black background because it makes the colours pop out of the paper!
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NEW - Addicted to Patterns is a Bristol based creative multidisciplined studio created by Justyna Medon, professional printmaker and surface decoration specialist, and Mani Swiatek web designer and photographer. Combining craftsmanship with digital techniques they are able to deliver best quality and complex design services. Below, from their "Hidden World" collection.
Hidden World Sky At Night Wallpaper. Photo: Addicted to Patterns
Staying with the blue theme here, Little Greene launched CAMELIA in 'smalt' (this intense blue colour). A moody tree and petal damask effect floral on a silken background is all I need for my dining room (more of that next month!).
Photo credit: Camelia by Little Greene in 'Smalt'
NEW - Let's talk tigers for a minute. This design by Voysey is from a watercolour drawing done in 1918 and was found in the archives of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Common Room have taken it out of the archives and applied in their 'Lioness and Palms' wallpaper.
Country theme? Below is a tongue in cheek wallpaper from 17 Patterns. Representing nature’s treasure trove, the Forager collection delivers the beauty of the English countryside into your home.
This natural selection is available on luxurious metallic white mica, contemporary non-woven warm grey and stone. For a psychedelic twist, fluorescent ‘magic’ mushrooms are presented on black non-woven papers. Make mine a portobello please.
Jenny Kakoudakis likes to blog about interiors. She launched award-winning Seasons in Colour in 2014 and the luxury interior design blog All The Pretty Homes in 2024.
When she is not chasing criminals out of the financial system (her day job), she gets creative by redecorating her own home.