Floral wallpapers that will make your home bloom this spring

Here's a look at some spring wallpaper choices in full blossom

Floral wallpaper is a simple way to brighten and uplift a home

Rewild your interiors this spring with some of the most lovely and energising florals to hit the walls in decades.

Back to the 1980s

Padukka by Scion delivers a classic family diner in 1980s style. From €85 per 10m roll, various suppliers. Look for peel-and-stick and water-activated papers from Hovia.

Retro wallpapers are rolling up everywhere in 2026, and though familiar, these super-expressive lovelies are reimagined for a 21st-century, Instagram eye. Looking to a decade, surprisingly, it’s the 1980s that has broken through with its sugar-high, shameless sense of fun. Used in conjunction with the right furniture and given enough room, the late 20th century is a fantastic look for anyone reaching for nostalgic designs with a slightly tuned-in contemporary personality.

Decor from this decade has a lot of art deco in it (impossible to unsee when you accept it). Examine highly stylised florals and large-scale abstract repeats, chevrons, graffiti and stripes in mint greens, powder pinks, and baby blues. Pare back to a pop of neon colour with something like the screen-print style Padduka paper from Scion for late mid-century groove ideal for a kitchen/diner (€85 per 10m roll, various suppliers). Heritage brands, including Laura Ashley, offer cabbage-sized roses and climbing plants in a typical range of 80s pastel papers if cottagecore charm is more your cup of Earl Grey.

Mural magic

Flower Press wallpaper from €50 per metre, grahamandbrown.com/ie.

We are now interchanging the terms wallpaper and mural, as traditional paper steps up to the feature wall that once staged an eye-watering paint colour. Paint-the-wall wallpaper and peel-n-stick digital panels are artful, affordable and make an immediate impact as maximalist bespoke canvases for any space. Choose your preferred style, scale it to the application, and there are thousands of storied choices in various colourways available in custom sizings.

The beauty is, most murals are designed to be hooked at a corner and whipped down with ease if it’s a wow-now attention-getter, rather than a forever project. Be inspired by the partner paint colours suggested by many major paint/wallpaper brands for 2026. Scheming with the stunning new Flower Press mural (knee-knocking in a rich, Hollywood Regency style Teal), Graham & Brown suggest Free Spirit, Angel Dust, Bedugul (teal) and Terrazzo (soft black) as perfect companions in Everyday Emulsion. Flower Press wallpaper from €50 per metre.

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Jungle drum

XL Jungle. From €67 per metre, timorousbeasties.com.

With colour flashing back into our lives this year, no one does colour and detail with quite the same grotesque-gorgeousness as Timorous Beasties of Glasgow. If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, go online and take a trip on the wild side with surreal imaginings and taxonomy. Their deliberately loud, dramatic designs cheerfully detonate old favourites like toile while still retaining a heritage quality (throwing out flouncy 18th-century shepherdesses for gritty scenes of urban Glasgow with street life and misbehaving youths). 

We love its XL Jungle, a highly innovative new paper in an amazing 20-metre repeat without side-to-side repetition — true aesthetic and design gymnastics. Jungle is made to order with opaque inks on silver metallic embossed vinyl and textured non-woven paper; from €67 per metre.

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Pattern politics

Bramble Wallpaper by Divine Savages, €223 in four colourways, also available in fabrics, divinesavages.com.

Another wallpaper house skilled at narrative papers, Divine Savages, enters the evolving world of the design co-lab this year. It is teaming its much-beloved wallpapers with the British studio of Ca’Pietra, which markets hand-painted tiles. Stirring up patterned wallpaper and patterned tile might seem like a dated cloakroom adventure, but with a bit of aesthetic balance and a cool ground for the tile or paper, it’s a charmer. The marketing team says, “Having worked closely with Ca’Pietra on both their home renovations and the stunning powder room of their Bath headquarters, it was a natural progression to join forces.”

When picking up motifs, themes and colours from a wallpaper and setting them against a patterned tile intentionally, is something anyone can try, just test, test, test before ordering tile or wallpaper by the metre. There are six choices in square 13cm Ca’Pietra tiles inspired by Divine Savages Brambles wallpaper, and 6 inspired by their Lovebirds wallpaper. Hand-made at €28.70 per tile, expect a six-week lead time. capietra.com. The prickly, scrambly wallpaper, The Brambles, is €223 per roll in four colourways

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In the kitchen

Woodland Floral, Harlequin/Sophie Robinson shown in a Peridot/Ruby/Pearl colourway, 10m from €142, wallpaperdirect.com.

Noticed the return of wallpaper to the kitchen on Instagram and in various home magazines? It signals our love of comfort, colour, and calming reminders of the great outdoors in our great indoors, and most particularly in our favourite room in the house. Wallpaper is an excellent way to decorate the endless metres of cool, glittering cabinets and counter surfacing. 

Flowers are a natural sweetheart in the kitchen, but abstract murals indicating crystalline structures and watery, indistinct landscapes are also great contenders, vibing with organic, honest materials including stone, marble, and wood. The Woodland Floral Wallpaper is a part of the prestigious Harlequin/Sophie Robinson wallpaper collection, a hand-drawn interpretation of Sophie’s garden and the woodland surrounding her home, including both wild and cultivated flowers on a refreshing pearl white backdrop. Think about a splash-back or up-stand in a robust material (tile or quartz) to slightly push your paper up off a wet countertop and vouch for scrub-resistant product where possible; 10m paste-the-wall paper, shown in a peridot/ruby/pearl colourway, €142. 

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Bedroom behaviour

Cosmos Japanese watercolour Floral Mural by Hovia from €44.20 per metre, Hovia.com/ie

While we want to avoid visual overload in the bedroom, that doesn’t mean our florals have to recede into dull disinterest. Murals are a wonderful way to play up the head end of the bed, and as you’re looking away from the action once you’re under the covers, go for something quite exciting in your private chamber. Use your mural to set up a wider scheme to take in paint, linens, rugs, and soft furnishings. I like the loose, leafy super-scale of the Cosmos Japanese Watercolour Floral Mural by Hovia from €44.20 per metre, hovia.com/ie, but wander into the tropics if you have the nerve. Softer, grounded notes in classic, dusty, ditsy repeats? My choice would be taken from the newest arrivals in the Sanderson Highgrove collection, Wildflower Meadow.

It’s a super pretty old-fashioned paper inspired by a French archive document connected to Highgrove House (home of King Charles). The repeated tracery of delicate serpentine paths, beehives, tiny deer, acers, foxes, and pheasants is feminine without being too sugary. Prefer a stripe? Explore Apothecary Rose, also in the Highgrove collection. 10m roll, €196

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Shy maximalist

Byobu wallpaper from Mind the Gap, made in Transylvania, takes from Japanese traditional design,€289 for three rolls

There’s a new term being bandied about in design circles — midimalism. It’s an interior with more intimate “you” in it, but not the eccentric, powerfully patterned interior of maximalism. There are also fewer intergenerational things prowling every surface. Busy, highly ornamental wallpaper introduces complex, fascinating visual design without crowding the room physically with furnishings we don’t need, and clutter that just demands dusting.

Take this technique to the fifth wall (the ceiling), and there’s still room to breathe. Byobu wallpaper from Mind the Gap, made in Transylvania, takes from Japanese traditional design. It’s printed on a metallic foil that distils natural and artificial light beautifully in a bookish corner, stately hall, or very grown-up bedroom; from €289 for three rolls, Mind the Gap is a good brand to explore as it balances the tradition of repeating wallpaper with the freer expression of a picture mural. Consider how you would like your paper to influence the proportions of the space. The repeat is slightly vertical, leading the eye up, pushing back a low ceiling.