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Decorating Notes

Welcome to Decorating Notes — our go-to space for sharing everything from expert how-to guides to pattern picks we love. Whether you're hanging your first roll or refreshing a much-loved room, you'll find advice, inspiration and practical know-how to help you get it just right.

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Chamomile in Flax and Madder from The Unfinished Works by Morris and Co, a dense cream and madder floral covering a sitting room with a pale sofa, a sage painted door and a brass plant stand

Brand Stories

A Nation of Pattern-Lovers: The Great British Wallpaper Houses

No country on earth has given the world more beautiful wallpaper than Britain. From a Victorian radical's willow boughs to...

Fairies in Green from Fairyland by Borastapeter, a leafy green print in a child's room with a deep red bunk bed, a canopy and a pendant light

How To

The Nursery You Won't Have to Redo: Wallpaper That Grows With Your Child

The nursery is the room we most often over-commit, and most often regret. Choose with a longer view, and a...

Ivy Garland in Prune from Cotswolds by Coordonne, an ivy lattice in a bathroom with a stone basin on a wooden stand and a framed mirror

How To

Yes, You Can Wallpaper a Bathroom: How to Do It Beautifully

The idea that wallpaper and bathrooms do not mix is one of decorating's most stubborn myths. Chosen well and hung...

Uffington Roses in Plaster Pink by Laura Ashley, a soft rose trail in a green painted room with a marble fireplace and a velvet chair

Brand Stories

The Romance Returns: Laura Ashley and the Comeback of the Pretty Home

It began on a kitchen table in Pimlico with ten pounds and a borrowed idea. Seventy years on, the romantic,...

Style Guides

Florals and geometrics, toile and tartan, grasscloth and plaster. A guide to every pattern we sell: what it is, where it came from, and the rooms it suits best.

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Eleonora in Blue from Herrgard by Borastapeter, a fine grey and teal stripe in a bedroom corner with blue bedding and a red table lamp

Style Guides

From Outlaw to Elegance: The Rise of Striped Wallpaper

It is the most versatile pattern in decorating, and the most quietly surprising. The stripe has been the mark of...

The Secret Garden Chinoiserie in Golden Hour by Rockett St George, a golden chinoiserie of birds and blossom in a dining room with a run of red velvet chairs

Style Guides

In Praise of More: The Case for Maximalist Wallpaper

For years we were told that less was more. Maximalism is the joyful, overdue correction, and its natural home is...

Sepia Flora by Sandberg, a wall of pressed botanical specimens in soft sepia on cream, in a bedroom with white linen and a window onto green trees

Style Guides

The Naturalist's Wall: The Case for Vintage Herbarium Wallpaper

Pressed, labelled and lovingly catalogued, the herbarium specimen is where science first met beauty. Vintage herbarium wallpaper brings all the...

Candice Olson Metallic Scallop Beige wallpaper by York Wallcoverings, a large quilted metallic scallop behind a white dressing table and an orchid

Style Guides

From Botticelli to the Bathroom: Scallop Wallpaper

It rose Venus from the sea, badged every pilgrim on the road to Santiago and dripped from the grottoes of...

How To

Measuring, matching, hanging and budgeting. The practical side of decorating, answered plainly.

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Francois Green and Blue wallpaper by Anna French, a soft green trailing print with blue flowers above white panelling, with a blue and white vase of lily of the valley

How To

You've Chosen Your Wallpaper. Now What?

The paper is up, and it is beautiful. But a wall is only ever part of a room, and the...

Tangleby Navy wallpaper by Josephine Munsey, a dense navy floral trail on warm taupe in a room with a herringbone floor and a pink panelled door

How To

How to Choose the Right Pattern and Scale

Pattern is where a room finds its personality, and scale is the quiet decision that makes or breaks it. Understand...

Ines Blue mural by Sandberg, enormous painted blooms carried over the walls and right across the ceiling of a room, with a figure standing against them for scale

How To

Look Up, Look Inside: Unexpected Places to Use Wallpaper

The four walls are only the beginning. Some of the most delightful wallpaper in a house turns up exactly where...

Cumulus Blue mural by Eijffinger, a painted sky of blue and white clouds covering a ceiling around a plaster ceiling rose

How To

The Fifth Wall: In Praise of the Papered Ceiling

We spend our lives looking up at it, and almost never think to decorate it. The ceiling is the most...

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Browse all the inspiration, at your leisure.

Chamomile in Flax and Madder from The Unfinished Works by Morris and Co, a dense cream and madder floral covering a sitting room with a pale sofa, a sage painted door and a brass plant stand

Brand Stories

A Nation of Pattern-Lovers: The Great British Wallpaper Houses

Fairies in Green from Fairyland by Borastapeter, a leafy green print in a child's room with a deep red bunk bed, a canopy and a pendant light

How To

The Nursery You Won't Have to Redo: Wallpaper That Grows With Your Child

Ivy Garland in Prune from Cotswolds by Coordonne, an ivy lattice in a bathroom with a stone basin on a wooden stand and a framed mirror

How To

Yes, You Can Wallpaper a Bathroom: How to Do It Beautifully

Uffington Roses in Plaster Pink by Laura Ashley, a soft rose trail in a green painted room with a marble fireplace and a velvet chair

Brand Stories

The Romance Returns: Laura Ashley and the Comeback of the Pretty Home

Eleonora in Blue from Herrgard by Borastapeter, a fine grey and teal stripe in a bedroom corner with blue bedding and a red table lamp

Style Guides

From Outlaw to Elegance: The Rise of Striped Wallpaper

The Secret Garden Chinoiserie in Golden Hour by Rockett St George, a golden chinoiserie of birds and blossom in a dining room with a run of red velvet chairs

Style Guides

In Praise of More: The Case for Maximalist Wallpaper

Sepia Flora by Sandberg, a wall of pressed botanical specimens in soft sepia on cream, in a bedroom with white linen and a window onto green trees

Style Guides

The Naturalist's Wall: The Case for Vintage Herbarium Wallpaper

Candice Olson Metallic Scallop Beige wallpaper by York Wallcoverings, a large quilted metallic scallop behind a white dressing table and an orchid

Style Guides

From Botticelli to the Bathroom: Scallop Wallpaper

Seed Pod House Small Prints Green wallpaper by GP and J Baker, a green seed pod that reads as a polka dot, behind a floral sofa and a jug of roses

Style Guides

Named After a Dance: Polka Dot and Spot Wallpaper

William Morris wallpaper in a classic Arts and Crafts botanical pattern, the Strawberry Thief design in pale sage in a hallway with a wooden bench

Style Guides

A Morris for Every Home: The Enduring Genius of William Morris Wallpaper

Mackinac natural grasscloth by Thibaut, a honey toned woven grass wall behind a cream patterned armchair, a carved gilt mirror and a fiddle leaf fig

Style Guides

The Texture of the Natural World: The Case for Grasscloth

Pigment Multi mural by Black Edition, scattered multicoloured brushstrokes on cream wrapping a living room with a red velvet sofa and an open doorway

Style Guides

When the Wallpaper Is the Artwork: In Praise of the Artful Wall

Configure Chocolate Box by Ohpopsi, bold pink, red and olive abstract shapes in a hallway with a coral mid century armchair and an orange painted wall

Style Guides

The Look That Keeps Coming Back: The Case for Retro Wallpaper

Alnarp Green by Borastapeter, a soft green wooded landscape wallpaper in a sitting room with a grey painted armoire, two Gustavian chairs and a dark round table with yellow flowers

Style Guides

Where Science Meets Beauty: The Case for Botanical Wallpaper

Beldi Rugs Bone wallpaper by Coordonne, a bone and taupe berber diamond motif in a hallway with a dark green door, a long dark wood bench and a terracotta tiled floor

Style Guides

Beige, but Not Boring: The Case for the Characterful Neutral

Francois Green and Blue wallpaper by Anna French, a soft green trailing print with blue flowers above white panelling, with a blue and white vase of lily of the valley

How To

You've Chosen Your Wallpaper. Now What?

Tangleby Navy wallpaper by Josephine Munsey, a dense navy floral trail on warm taupe in a room with a herringbone floor and a pink panelled door

How To

How to Choose the Right Pattern and Scale

Ines Blue mural by Sandberg, enormous painted blooms carried over the walls and right across the ceiling of a room, with a figure standing against them for scale

How To

Look Up, Look Inside: Unexpected Places to Use Wallpaper

Cumulus Blue mural by Eijffinger, a painted sky of blue and white clouds covering a ceiling around a plaster ceiling rose

How To

The Fifth Wall: In Praise of the Papered Ceiling

Palm Leaf Stripe Cream and Blue wallpaper by Joules, a soft striped palm print in a bedroom with a woven blind at the window and a green pleated lamp beside the bed

How To

Where to Start With Wallpaper: A Beginner's Guide

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Almost every wallpaper and fabric we sell can be sent as a sample, so you can see how a pattern sits in your own light before you order the rolls.

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