Brown Wallpaper

Choosing brown wallpaper

Where it works

Brown is the colour of boot rooms, studies, snugs and the hallway with the dog basket in it, and this collection knows it. Grey Dogs, labradors and pointers painted on warm grey, and Speckled Trout in rows on cream are the boot-room pair. Autumn Roses, blush roses on dark chocolate, and Brown Leaves, copper oak leaves on near-black, belong in a study, or in a dining room that gets used at night. The Morris Hidden Treasures, golden grapes on deep russet, suits a hallway with dark timber.

Picking between the designs

Brown here is either the ground or the subject. Autumn Roses and Brown Leaves use it as the ground, and so do Cocoa Blooms, the burgundy-brown Wine Chrysanthemum and the russet Hidden Treasures. On the trout papers, Speckled Trout and Brown Trout, the brown is in the fish and the ground stays cream. Retro Check mixes chocolate with denim blue, and Bronze Botanical puts copper seed heads on petrol teal. Then temperature: the chocolate and russet grounds are warm, Bronze Botanical and Retro Check are cool. Blush Leopard, painterly spots on warm blush, reads as pink first and brown second. If the room is small, the cream-ground trout keep it light; the brown-ground florals are for rooms that can afford to go dark.

Related

Paler earth tones are in neutral wallpaper, the dogs and trout in animal wallpaper, the russet Morris in William Morris designs. For the difference between a check and a plaid, read Plaid vs checkered patterns explained.