Grey Wallpaper

Choosing grey wallpaper

Where it works

Start with the murals. Cloud Line has no single subject, its evergreens are spaced evenly across the wall, which makes it the one to use where a door or a window interrupts. Emerald Fog is heaviest at the bottom, so it wants the lower wall uncluttered. Silver Saguaro, with layered horizons, works above a low bed or a sofa. Overcast Grove draws its leaves large and needs distance, a living room, or a corridor you look down. Clay Wash has no orientation and hangs anywhere. Pencil Study, sparse charcoal saguaro and prickly pear, reads like a drawing on paper. The repeats will run around a whole room. Cartographer's Range and Summit Sketchbook trace mountains in thin grey line on white, light enough to pass for texture. We'd put either in a bedroom. Cipher Drafting belongs in a home office.

Picking between the designs

Grey reads warm or cool depending on what sits beside it, so decide which you need. Cloud Line, Emerald Fog and Silver Saguaro run cool, mist and silver with green underneath. Clay Wash is warm, slate against terracotta and ochre. So is Overcast Grove, a brooding sky over sun-bleached leaves. Among the repeats, Gridline Easel is nothing but fine rules on white. Half Moons goes bolder, charcoal half-circles on pale grey with open ground around them. Moon Discs puts charcoal orchids on cream over a few flat gold discs. Need calm? Cloud Line. Warmth? Clay Wash.

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