Roll up, roll up: Wallpaper is making a roaring comeback

Wallpaper is having a moment. Kya deLongchamps shows how to work its wow factor
Roll up, roll up: Wallpaper is making a roaring comeback

Hit-the-North is a real cork wall covering with a post-industrial cityscape inhabited by skulls, cats and owls. The texture is not only attractive but also insulates and dulls noise between rooms. Its mid-century atmosphere looks fantastic with red brick and uneven vintage plaster. The creator here is Drew Millward, famous for his psychedelic posters for contemporary rock bands including The Foo Fighters. The panels are 130cm wide and sold by the metre. Application is paste-the-wall using standard pre-mixed wallpaper paste, from €266, Themonkeypuzzletree.com.

NOTHING unfurls instant personality like wallpaper. Overwhelmed by choice and shy of the commitment? With paste-the-wall and peel-and-stick varieties, what goes up can come down just as easily. Personality design is making a roaring comeback into our mannerly grey interiors for 2026.

Demonstrating the transformative power and versatility of highly pigmented colour, Put your stamp on it, by Sorbet Dreams, summons a sunshine-drenched escape. Renting? You may be allowed to utilise peel-and-stick application wallpaper (check with your landlord). The high-quality, fully FSC-certified paper, with water-based inks, is environmentally friendly and colourfast and also available in a paste-the-wall version; 10m from €238 per roll (made to order), Sorbetdreams.com.
Demonstrating the transformative power and versatility of highly pigmented colour, Put your stamp on it, by Sorbet Dreams, summons a sunshine-drenched escape. Renting? You may be allowed to utilise peel-and-stick application wallpaper (check with your landlord). The high-quality, fully FSC-certified paper, with water-based inks, is environmentally friendly and colourfast and also available in a paste-the-wall version; 10m from €238 per roll (made to order), Sorbetdreams.com.

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