How Designers Use Bold Wallpapers: 10 Examples

Printed wallpapers attract attention and help create a truly stylish interior—if chosen and combined correctly. We've seen how to do this in projects by our designers.

Apartment in Yalta Park

The location of this apartment dictated its rules: a southern interior must be bright and joyful! To make it so, designers chose vibrant wallpapers with a plant pattern for several rooms: living room, children's room, and study.

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Design: Tatiana Stykova, Olga Marchenko

Tropicals in a Moscow Trashion

Here is an example of how to incorporate a very active print into a minimalist interior. The main rule: wallpaper only one wall (or better, just part of it), leaving other surfaces for painting.

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Design: 'Point of Design'

Two-Room Apartment in Veliky Novgorod

Most of the furniture here is IKEA. To add individuality to the setup, they relied on finishing touches: bright printed wallpapers were applied even in the bathroom.

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Design: Irina Petrova and Olga Vasilyeva

Sky-Blue Apartment in Helsinki

Accent wallpapers are a successful choice for decorating the wall behind the headboard. For other walls, choose paint that will echo the shades of the print—so the interior doesn't become too busy.

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Design: Marina Sarkisyan

Small 2-Room Apartment with a Vibrant Bedroom

But you can also dare to wallpaper all the walls in a room with printed wallpapers. This is certainly a risk—very important is a sense of proportion. To make such an interior look harmonious, pay attention to the colors used in the print—they should be complex and slightly muted. And the pattern itself should be gentle and delicate—as in this project.

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Design: S-Style

Designer Marina Zhukova's Apartment

Another bold choice—geometry in saturated tones. It looks very harmonious due to the fact that the wallpapers 'collect' all the shades used in this interior.

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Design: Marina Zhukova

One-Room Apartment in Scandinavian Style

See how a large and vibrant design can look appropriate and fresh. The secret lies in a white background and floral theme.

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Design: Olga Titova

Stalin-era Flat on Novy Arbat

This pattern in watercolor shades is worth examining—thanks to a large number of small details. That it also features birds in addition to traditional plants makes it even more interesting—no other accents are needed in the interior.

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Design: Katya Chistova

Apartment in a Loft

In this project, wallpapers are used in every room. And each has its own: rich-textured in classical style—in the living room, flowered print on a dark blue background—in the bedroom, large pattern in blue tones—in the bathroom, subtle with plant themes—on the kitchen wall.

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Design: Viktoria Lazardova

Small One-Room Apartment in the Center of Moscow

This apartment is full of color and active prints. They are balanced by classical furniture forms, wall moldings, and white color.

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Design: Galina Yuryeva