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31 Incredibly Colorful Wallpaper Design Ideas for Any Room

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Need more proof that wallpaper just might be the perfect decor accessory for your home? These 31 rooms are bursting with vivacious, energetic wallpaper designs that will inspire. Some homes features every wall covered in pattern, while others just have a small accent—but all the rooms prove that graphic, bold wallpaper is your design best friend.

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Melissa Smrekar’sDallas condomay be a rental, but she still managed to pack a ton of personality into her space, including her bedroom that featuresScalamandre’s famous Zebras wallcovering.

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Cortney (one half of the lifestyle blog and brand A Whimsy Wonderland) and her husband Tyler renovated thisL.A. apartmentin a renter-friendly way, like using removable wallpaper like this Tropical Hibiscus Temporary Wallpaper fromSociety 6.

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(Image credit: Photographed bySusie Lowe, Designed byThe Pink House)

Beige is banned from thisVictorian house in Scotland. Emily, who runs The Pink House blog, challenges design conventions with striking color, playful patterns and more. She practices what she preaches; a bedroom featuresTimorous Beasties’ Butterflies wallpaperin the “Mouse Maroon” colorway, and a hallway features an accent wall ofCole & Son’s rainbow Prism paper.

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(Image credit:Melanie Rieders)

Textile, furniture, and accessories companyAelfieis helmed by the talented designer Aelfie, who shares this brightBrooklyn apartmentwith her family. The brand’s products often feature quirky graphics, loud colors, and patterns that complement, and her home is no different. A wallpaper pattern called“Tropic Chic” adorns her entryway, and Cole & Son’s “Miami” wows in the bedroom.

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(Image credit:Nancy Mitchell)
(Image credit:Nancy Mitchell)

Looking for an entire home full of wallpaper design inspiration? Look no further than beverage consultant and bloggerNatalie Jacob’s home, which was inspired by a trip to Palm Springs. In the living room, Wallflora’s “Calathea Leaves Wallpaper” pairs with Elvis, Wallflora’s“Baby Blue Monstera Leaves”soothes in the master bedroom, and hand-painted “wallpaper” by Blair Urban of Urban Lush Murals makes lemonade wallpaper vibes out of lemons in the kitchen.

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Speaking of hand-painted wallpaper…the Charleston house of interior designer Taylor DeBartolafeatures lots of history and plaster walls, soaring ceilings, tall windows, the original hardwood floors, and cast-iron fireplace mantels. It also has an amazing Keith Haring-inspired “wallpaper” in the dining room by local artist Annie Gallagher. The mural is complete with symbols of modern technology, fun shapes, and mementos from their own lives. Among the shapes are the two bulldogs, DeBartola and his husband.

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Minneapolis-based lifestyle blogger Jen Biswas, who blogs under the name Paisley + Sparrow, lives in thislarge homewith her husband and two young children. The entire home is very cheery, and this tiny power room featuringB Darling “Marley Wallpaper”is a colorful, floral, and fun spot.

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This creative couple spent every weekend for two years renovating a1920s Spanish Revival house that’s only 619 square feet. One half of the couple is Samantha Santana, an artist, surface pattern and textile designer, creative director, ex-florist, and wallpaper designer. Her own pattern design can be seen in many rooms, like theFloral Finds Removable Woven Wallpaper在餐厅角落。

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Thismid-century modern home in Delawareis organic and contemporary, tailored but casual. And if you can peel your eyes away from the two adorable dogs, you’ll find some dramatic, geometricAntonina Vella wallpaperin this guest bedroom.

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Audra and her husband, Thijs, have transformed their1940s condo到一个邀请和美丽的分享family and friends. And they’ve added bold touches, like the Honolulu Palm Green wallpaper fromGraham & Brownon the kitchen ceiling.

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Ashley’s Chicago homehas a great floor plan that allows for a lot of natural light, but the real beauty of her home is her collection of objects, artwork, plants and décor. Case in point: the marbled paper fromBlick.

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(Image credit:Carina Romano)
(Image credit:Carina Romano)

Though this crafty couple tackled every project of thishome’s remodel themselves, including gutting the whole kitchen and rebuilding it from scratch. But interior designer Michelle Gage says the wallpaper is where we “splurged the most. Not only is it more expensive than painting, but it’s also the only labor we’ve hired. We’ve tackled every other project ourselves, but we knew our limits here.”Anthropologiewallpaper was used in the office, andHygge & Westwallpaper was used in an upstairs studio.

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Ruth’s homeis filled with deep blue-green and gray colors, as well as butterflies, corals, plants, colorful ceramics, and patterned textiles, including theGable Wallpaper from Farrow & Ballin the kid’s bedroom.

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Victoria Pater’s Mid Mod pins areadorable and her cheery homeis bubbling with retro mod energy, and the Multistep wallpaper in Seagreen fromOrla Kielyfits right in.

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After a year-long renovation, Diana moved into this “collected eclectic” styleAnn Arbor house, and you’ll want to make sure you zoom in on this wallpaper fromFlavor Paper.

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Travel + Leisure‘s editor-in-chief and his husband have traveled to over 60 countries between them and share this公园坡的公寓that has just a peek ofShouchikubai wallpaper from Farrow & Ball.

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This artist fits a ton of color and pattern in her450-square-foot Brooklyn apartment, including a mesmerizing wallpaper from Wayfair.

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Emily fit four distinct areas into the one room ofher studio apartment. She did it with smart spatial planning, but also with a blend of bold wallpaper patterns, like this muted pattern in her dining area,Sanderson Wallpaper’s “Aspen.”

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Fritha Quinn—also known as blogger Tigerlilly Quinn—is a big fan of color and pattern, andthe UK homeshe shares with her family shows that off. You can see Farrow and Ball’sWisteriawallpaper is in the master bedroom.

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“Jonathan Adler meets Justina Blakeney” is how Shauna describes herFort Worth, Texas home’s style. Wallpaper fromHygge & Westadds colorful contrast to the master bathroom.

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卡特里娜飓风和Draz的粉丝the 1950s, rock-n-roll, and vintage Americana, andtheir homereflects all of these things. Their dining room and living room feature a great vintage-inspired wallpaper pattern, no longer available, but you can find asimilar pattern.

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Thisbrownstone in Park Slopegot a bold exterior paint job and a modern interior face lift, including accents of Hygge & West’sJulia RothmanSerengeti pattern in Ebony.

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A painter brightened herCalifornia houseto be the perfect inspiring home, adding in wallpaper accents like “Cosmic Desert” in Ebony byHygge & WestxJustina Blakeneyin this bathroom.

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Alison and her family have lived in thissouth Minneapolis homefor six years and have certainly left their personal mark on it during that time, likeHygge & West’s “Peonies” wallpaper.

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Yes, the tile floors are to die for in thismacrame maker’s stunning Spanish home, but the once-plain entryway got spiced up withCole & Son’s Palm Jungle wallpaper.

Adrienne Breaux

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Adrienne loves architecture, design, cats, science fiction and watching Star Trek. In the past 10 years she's called home: a van, a former downtown store in small town Texas and a studio apartment rumored to have once been owned by Willie Nelson.

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