Wallpaper Guides

Hector Guimard's Paris Metro entrance showing the curving green Art Nouveau ironwork

Art Nouveau is the style of the whiplash curve: flowing organic lines, stylized natural forms, off-balance composition, and decoration built right into the architecture. It arrived in the 1890s, peaked...

Art Nouveau is the style of the whiplash curve: flowing organic lines, stylized natural forms, off-balance composition, and decoration built right into the architecture. It arrived in the 1890s, peaked...

Toile fabric showing pastoral French country scenes printed in red on a cream cotton ground

Toile is storytelling cloth. It prints scenic compositions, pastoral landscapes, hunting scenes, figures, romantic little vignettes, in a single color on a pale ground, almost always blue or red on...

Toile is storytelling cloth. It prints scenic compositions, pastoral landscapes, hunting scenes, figures, romantic little vignettes, in a single color on a pale ground, almost always blue or red on...

Hand-painted chinoiserie wallpaper panel showing pink and white peonies, branches, and exotic birds on a soft green ground

Chinoiserie is the Western European take on Chinese decorative style, an interpretation rather than a straight copy. It started in the seventeenth century, when European craftsmen tried to reproduce the...

Chinoiserie is the Western European take on Chinese decorative style, an interpretation rather than a straight copy. It started in the seventeenth century, when European craftsmen tried to reproduce the...

Black and white photographic portrait of William Morris in middle age, with full beard and informal jacket

William Morris (1834 to 1896) was an English designer, poet, and socialist who founded the Arts and Crafts movement and drew wallpapers and textiles that people still hang on their...

William Morris (1834 to 1896) was an English designer, poet, and socialist who founded the Arts and Crafts movement and drew wallpapers and textiles that people still hang on their...

A hand wiping patterned wallpaper clean with a soft cloth

Cleaning wallpaper takes ten minutes per wall if you do it right. The key is matching the cleaning method to the wallpaper type. Vinyl-on-non-woven wallpaper handles damp cloth, mild soap,...

Cleaning wallpaper takes ten minutes per wall if you do it right. The key is matching the cleaning method to the wallpaper type. Vinyl-on-non-woven wallpaper handles damp cloth, mild soap,...

An interior wall split between solid sage-green paint and patterned floral wallpaper

Paint and wallpaper are the two main ways to finish a wall, and the honest answer to which is better is that it depends on your budget, the room, and...

Paint and wallpaper are the two main ways to finish a wall, and the honest answer to which is better is that it depends on your budget, the room, and...