Striped Wallpapers for Any Room
Today, stripes are popular not only among clothing designers. Interior designers also actively use the striped trend. And it's no surprise!
Striped Wallpapers for Walls
Today, stripes are popular not only among clothing designers. Interior designers also actively use the striped trend. And it's no surprise! There is plenty of room for creativity, especially when it comes to wallpapers. Striped wallpapers for walls can be very diverse: wide, narrow, vertical or horizontal stripes. Not to mention color.
In interior design, you can play with bright, contrasting or neutral, almost invisible stripes. You can also wallpaper the entire room with striped wallpapers. Striped wallpapers are often used as the lower or upper part, separated by skirting boards, rails, panels or other decor. You can also create a striped accent on one wall and make the others monochrome, as shown in the photo below.
Photo 1 — Striped Wallpapers — It's Stylish
What You Need to Know When Choosing a Striped Interior?
When choosing wallpapers for a room, it's important to consider their impact on people. Vertical stripes symbolize growth, movement, dynamism, while horizontal stripes promote calmness, peace, and stability.
Vertical stripes visually elongate the space, while horizontal stripes have the opposite effect. Wide stripes visually narrow the room. Thin and narrow stripes are perceived as monochromatic spaces. By using these visual effects, as well as mirror finishes and panels, you can hide low ceilings, expand or stretch the room.
Striped wallpapers in one color palette or related shades work well as a base for furniture and accessories.
To create a pleasant, harmonious atmosphere, use light, soft blues, beige, cream, gray tones with neutral stripes.
Use bright striped wallpapers to create a joyful, happy, energetic interior. But keep in mind that they can be eye-catching and overwhelming. If you're not afraid of extremes, boldly choose purple or yellow striped wallpapers. However, when selecting colorful striped wallpapers, be prepared for the fact that interior items may blend into the overall background. Careful planning of every detail is necessary in the design. Note how, as shown in the photo below, furniture looks uniquely and extravagantly against a black-and-white striped background.
Photo 2 — Extravagant Interior with Black-and-White Striped Wallpapers
Wallpapers with very wide contrasting stripes are best used as a standalone accent in the decor.
Striped wallpapers will harmonize well with monochrome wallpapers in the color of one of the stripes. For example, if you have white wallpapers with green stripes on one wall, the rest of the wallpapers should be either green or white.
It looks stylish when striped wallpapers combine glossy and textured textures. Looking through the catalog of striped wallpapers, you can select silky, smooth to the touch, velvet or paper wallpapers with prominent stripes and patterns.
To make the stripes less noticeable, use striped wallpapers with flowers, patterns, emblems, and various ornaments.
Striped Wallpapers in Interior Design
Striped wallpapers are often a traditional element in many styles; they are used in retro, art deco, country, modern, baroque and classical design.
The main rule when choosing striped wallpapers is the following: the brighter and more contrasted the stripes, the more intense the accent on the wallpapers.
Based on this, you can choose striped wallpapers in an interior to make the room significantly more interesting and fresh.
Striped Wallpapers in the Kitchen
When selecting wallpapers for a kitchen, it's important to carefully combine colors. For the kitchen, vibrant, bright greens, salads, yellows, pinks, blues, for example, in white stripes, are ideal.
The color palette should be uplifting and stimulate appetite but not cause eye strain. Therefore, the optimal solution is to apply striped wallpapers on one or two walls as a decorative element and keep other walls monochrome. The interior can also be enhanced with striped curtains, pictures, or kitchen furniture in milk chocolate or coffee tones. An example of such an interior can be seen in the photo below.
Photo 3 — Striped Wallpapers in the Kitchen
Striped Wallpapers in the Bedroom
For each of us, the bedroom is associated with a place of rest, so the atmosphere should be relaxing, cozy, and peaceful.
Choose unobtrusive striped wallpapers in the bedroom. For example, beige, brown, white, soft blue tones in neutral stripes.
This can be either a classic or modern style. For modern design, you can use asymmetrical stripes, a combination of horizontal and vertical lines. For classical style, wallpapers with medium-width stripes would work well. The photo below shows how striped wallpapers, when combined with dark elegant furniture, accessories, lights, and other interior elements, give the room a special charm and sophistication.
Photo 4 — Striped Wallpapers in the Bedroom
Striped Wallpapers in a Children's Room
Striped wallpapers are perfect for a children's room. Using combinations of stripes of different widths and colors, you can create a fun, energetic interior. A bright room will always keep a child in a happy mood.
Striped wallpapers in a children's room will help develop activity and creativity in the child.
Paint one or two walls with bright vertical or horizontal stripes, and the rest in the color of the lightest stripe. The design of such a room will be quite vibrant but not overwhelming. For a little princess's room, you can use soft pink, lilac, peach wallpapers in light stripes. When combined with striped wallpapers on the walls, drawings and pictures with cartoon heroes, castles, fairies, and flowers will look great. Examples of children's striped rooms can be found in the video.
Striped Wallpapers in the Living Room
If you want to create a beautiful and fashionable interior in the living room, striped wallpapers are a must. We usually spend most of our time in the living room watching TV, reading books, and hosting guests. Therefore, the living room should please the eye, evoke positive emotions, and be cozy. Everything depends on the chosen style.
Using striped wallpapers in the living room can create a highly modern design. All you need is to apply striped wallpapers in an extravagant color palette and support them with furniture and decor.
Striped wallpapers will be trendy in a living room with a fireplace. The fireplace can be artificial, tables and chairs classic from dark or white wood, sofa and armchairs in light neutral tones. It's better to use striped wallpapers in one color palette, as shown in the photo below. Such an interior looks very harmonious and unobtrusive.
Photo 5 — Striped Wallpapers in the Living Room
Striped Wallpapers in the Entrance Hall
Stylish striped wallpapers will also look great in an entrance hall. It's better to choose vertical stripes, as the entrance hall is usually not very large in size. Striped wallpapers in an entrance hall allow you to significantly elongate and visually expand the space.
Cost of Striped Wallpapers
The price of striped wallpapers mainly depends on the material, its quality, and the manufacturer. Today, there is a huge selection of various striped wallpapers in color and style. The most popular wallpaper manufacturers include companies like Parati, AS Creation, Emiliana ParatiSirpi, Rasch, Decori Decori, Erismann Limonta, Art Wall and others.
In the Russian market, the cheapest are paper wallpapers, their cost ranges from 25 to 100 rubles per roll. Vinyl striped wallpapers cost from 200 rubles. The most expensive are Italian and German fleece wallpapers, their price can reach up to 2000 rubles per roll. In the Ukrainian market, you can buy wallpapers from 40 to 300 UAH per roll.
