Animal wallpaper

Animal wallpaper for the rooms American houses actually have

Animal wallpaper works best on a wall that has a job to do, and a US floor plan hands you several: the powder room off the hall, the entry, the tall stairwell nobody knows what to do with. These are refined European designs in which the animal leads and the room still gets to breathe. Nothing cartoonish, nothing drawn for a play corner.

Powder room, entryway and the open-plan anchor wall

A powder room has no furniture competing for attention and nobody lingers there, so it is the one spot where a saturated flamingo print or a dense spotted pattern can run at full strength. In a bedroom the same print reads softer and more summery, especially against light furniture and a brass wall light. On an open plan the sums change: pick the wall behind the sofa or the dining table as the anchor, then keep the connecting walls to a plain shade lifted from the pattern, so the print does not follow you from kitchen to couch. A stairwell repays a tall design, because you read it there from three heights on the way up.

Big cats, birds and skins: choosing your motif

Choosing from the collection comes down to how loudly you want the animal to speak. A leopard slipping through foliage reads as a painting at arm's length and as a settled, coherent pattern from the far side of the room; deep tones with restrained gold keep such a wall looking crafted rather than noisy. Animal skin designs do that same work more abstractly, spots and stripes without the creature itself. At the quiet end sit finely drawn cranes, songbirds and butterflies among branches: this bird wallpaper suits a dining room or a reading nook and sits close to our botanical designs, while a full green scene belongs with the jungle wallpaper.

European roll sizes and animal wallpaper on an American wall

European brands sell these papers by the European roll: 33 ft long and 20.9 in wide (10.05 m × 53 cm), covering close to 57 sq ft (5.3 m²), near enough what an American double roll covers. That width sets how the seams fall: a 12 ft (3.66 m) wall takes seven drops, so a busy repeat hides the joins better than a sparse one does. A 9 ft (2.74 m) ceiling leaves three full drops per roll, fewer once a long repeat has to be matched. Where the motif has to cross an entire wall without repeating at all, the animal murals are printed to your measurements.

Hanging these designs on drywall and ordering from Europe

Almost everything here is printed on non-woven wallpaper: the paste goes onto the wall and the strip goes up dry. On the wide, flat drywall of most American rooms that is the quicker way to work. Orders leave Europe with import duties and taxes already settled, so nothing is collected at your door on delivery.