Grey Wallpaper

Fifty-nine grey wallpapers, and grey here is usually a ground: slate blue-grey under silver willow leaves, warm mid-grey under gold koi, woven linen grey under white blossom, charcoal-navy under ivory lotus. The pattern on top decides whether the room reads cool or warm.

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Choosing grey wallpaper

Where it works

Grey suits the rooms that have to work with whatever furniture arrives: a rental bedroom, a home office, a hallway that connects rooms in different colours. Linen Blossom and Trailing Rose leave wide stretches of bare woven grey, so they read almost as a textured paint. Willow Leaves and the Morris Larkspur Blue are blue-greys with pale leaves, cool and calm, right for a bedroom. The koi designs, Koi Pond and Golden Koi, put metallic gold fish on slate and mid-grey and belong in a bathroom or a powder room where the scales can catch light.

Picking between the designs

Check the temperature first. Blue-greys: Willow Leaves, Larkspur Blue, Speckled Sparrow, Slate Peony. Warm greiges: Trailing Rose, Cream Cosmos, Sage Daisy with its ghosted grey-green foliage. Charcoal: Midnight Lotus, ivory lotus flowers along the base of a charcoal-navy damask, the darkest and most formal design here. Then decide whether the grey is doing the work or just holding it: in Linen Blossom the grey is the design; in Golden Koi and Peony Songbird it is a backdrop for gold and pink. The dog designs, Grey Dogs, Playful Paws and Watercolor Hounds, are the light-hearted end, for a mudroom or a child's bedroom.

Related

For paler grounds try white wallpaper or neutral wallpaper; the black-and-white end is in monochrome wallpaper. For pairing grey pattern with a painted wall, read Paint vs wallpaper.