White Wallpaper

White wallpapers where the ground stays open. You might pick black bamboo sprigs on bare white, or ink waves rolling across it. Softer choices put white dogwood on brushed aqua and blossom on a linen greige, and a blue and white cabana stripe suits a bathroom or a porch. Whichever you choose, the room stays light without feeling empty.

Choosing white wallpaper

Where it works

These are the designs for rooms that need to stay bright: a small bathroom, a north-facing bedroom, a hallway with no window. Bamboo Sprigs and Greyscale Bamboo leave most of the white bare, so they add pattern without taking any light. Woven Blossom and Sketched Blossom put white flowers on warm greige and pale grey grounds, which is the kinder choice where pure white would look clinical against older woodwork.

Picking between the designs

Ask how much ink you want. The bamboo pair and Rolling Waves are black on white; Rolling Waves fills the whole surface with pen-and-ink swells and is the boldest thing in the collection, for a cloakroom or a single wall. The blossom designs, Woven Blossom, Aqua Dogwood on brushed duck-egg and the Morris Sweet Briar Light on chalky off-white, are white flowers on a tinted ground and read softest. Scallop Fans and Cabana Calla are the geometric end: ginkgo fans in powder blue tiled over pebbled white, and a cornflower cabana stripe printed as one continuous mural. Silver Sprigs and Gilded Dogwood add a little metallic without adding colour.

Related

Warmer whites are in cream wallpaper and neutral wallpaper; the barest patterns in minimalist wallpaper.