Tree Wallpaper

Choosing tree wallpaper

Where it works

Trees want height, so these designs belong on full walls in rooms with something above eye level: a stairwell, a tall hallway, the head of a bed. Birch Grove, ivory and brown trunks standing close on grey, and Sketched Pines are the settled pair, for a bedroom or a landing. Peony Tree, cobalt trees in fine ink hung with magenta peonies, is for a dining or sitting room that wants a chinoiserie without birds. Leaping Hares, bare trees and hares in lino-cut line, goes in a nursery or a hallway.

Picking between the designs

First, do you want the whole tree or just a branch? Whole trees are mostly drawn in one or two colours, and from across the room they read as a forest. Sketched Pines and Pencil Forest work that way. Palm Cottage swaps in palms and fruit trees, all in dusty pink. Branch designs are painted instead, so they read as blossom. Gilded Dogwood puts golden leaves on lavender-grey. Sage Dogwood is watercolour on muted sage, softer again. And if the wall should feel like a place rather than a pattern, our pick is Birch Grove. The trunks stand so close the ground barely shows.

Related

The animals between the trees turn up in woodland wallpaper. Blossom branches sit in floral wallpaper, and the pines and birches in nature wallpaper too. Tall trunks need careful matching across the seams, which How to hang wallpaper covers.