Cottagecore Wallpaper

Choosing cottagecore wallpaper

Where it works

Cottagecore belongs in the kitchen and the bedroom, and it's happiest small. A pantry. A bathroom under the eaves, where the ceiling slopes down to meet the pattern. Folk Rose is the easiest of the lot, pink wild roses standing upright on warm cream. Folk Cardinal is nearly as easy (one small red bird, over and over, on cream), and we'd hang either almost anywhere. Woven Check looks like a tablecloth tacked to the wall, which is why it works over a kitchen counter or beside the washing machine. Pressed Blooms, dried flowers banked against grey planks, is the one for a bedroom feature wall, or a hallway that wants colour.

Picking between the designs

Decide between sprig, meadow and bouquet. Sprigs are small motifs on a light ground with space between: Folk Rose, Folk Cardinal, Wildflower Sprig, Pompom Sprig, Garden Folk with its looping green vines on warm white. Meadows are painted from the base up on a plaster ground: Plaster Meadow on deep green, Painted Meadow, Cornflower Meadow, Bluebell Meadow. Bouquets pack the ground: Pressed Blooms, Garden Bouquet on black, Pansy Patch on a carpet of forget-me-nots. Sprigs and checks keep a small room light; meadows want a full-height wall so the stems have room to climb; bouquets are for one wall, the one that has to make the room feel furnished. Lilac Orchard doesn't fit the three neatly. Teal birds and plums on cracked cream plaster, somewhere between sprig and meadow, and more weathered than anything else here.

Related

More small florals live in floral wallpaper. The checks have cousins in checkerboard wallpaper, and the painted meadows carry on in nature wallpaper.