expert advice

expert advice

Designers John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon offer some tips on how to decorate with their favorite wall covering:

Create a “jewel box” in a tiny space like a foyer by covering the walls and ceiling with a single pattern, then jazzing it up with paste-on rhinestones or pearls. An entryway is also a good place for a pricey paper that may be too expensive in a larger room.

Use complementary patterns in rooms that open into each other, like a dining room to a kitchen to a pantry. Unify by using different shades of the same color.

Pick two separate but complementary patterns for the walls and ceiling in a bedroom, like a curving vine pattern on the wall that draws the eye to a floral pattern above. It will create visual interest.

Tropical designs are hot. Loecke and Nixon papered a pink-tiled bathroom with a banana leaf pattern in contrasting shades of green.

Consider dramatic wallpapers for halls and passageways.

Use a rare, expensive or powerful pattern on a “feature” wall in a room, where it can serve the same function as art.

Wallpaper can help divide open spaces into zones, such as in a bathroom where you might want to distinguish between the shower area and the sink.

Source: Associated Press