Casamance wallpaper

Casamance wallpaper is a French line that reaches American walls without a showroom stop along the way, so the choosing happens on screen and with a sample in your hand. The collection divides cleanly. On one side sit fine woven grounds with the look of linen or sisal; on the other, plush velvet surfaces, a metallic sheen worked into the ground, and scenes that run the full width of a room.

How Casamance wallpaper is measured and ordered

These rolls are made to European sizes, measured in meters and centimeters, and every product page lists its own length and width, so convert before you count rather than after. As a rule of thumb, 10 m is roughly 33 ft and 53 cm is about 20.9 in. Textile grounds and panoramic series are sold to their own sizes, so read the figures on the page you are actually buying from. Order all the rolls for one wall in a single go, so the batch matches, and allow for the pattern repeat on top of your wall height. New drywall wants primer and a dust-free surface, since woven and velvet finishes show any ridge underneath. Every order ships from the Netherlands and duties and taxes are included in the price shown, so nothing lands on the doorstep as an extra.

Three ways these designs read on a wall

The quiet end of the range is about surface rather than pattern. Le Lin 3 reads as a fine weave that softens overhead light instead of bouncing it back, which is why it holds a color in a large room without adding noise. Le Velours 3 works the other way. Its plush surface deepens whatever color it carries and shifts as you cross the room. Panoramas 4 is the boldest of the three, a single scene sized to fill a wall and read from a distance.

Where Casamance wallpaper works in an American house

A powder room is the easiest place to start. The wall area is small, and a strong pattern has no time to tire you out in a room nobody sits in for long. An entryway or stair wall suits a panorama for the opposite reason: you see it from a distance and at an angle, which is how those scenes are drawn to be read. In a primary bedroom the woven and plain grounds do the real work, holding a color steady without competing with the bedding. A breakfast nook takes a lighter botanical well, since it keeps the corner awake without crowding the table. Mudrooms and kitchen walls are the two places to think twice, because steam and scuffing are hard on textile finishes.

Drapery and pillows in the same color family

Casamance designs furnishing fabrics alongside its wall coverings, which is the practical reason to plan the wall and the soft furnishings together. Casamance fabrics covers curtain and upholstery weights, and the Maison Casamance cushions are the fastest way to repeat a wall color at seating height. Carrying one shade across all three surfaces usually does more for a room than matching them exactly.

Questions before you order

Working out how many rolls of Casamance wallpaper a stairwell takes is guesswork until someone has seen the measurements. Send us the height and width of the wall, and the series you are leaning toward, and we will go through it with you. Order a sample first either way, and judge it in your own evening light, next to the floor and the trim.