Industrial wallpaper

Industrial wallpaper gives a flat drywall wall the history it never had: poured concrete with the unevenness still in it, brick painted pale over red-brown, sheet metal gone soft with rust. Houses here are built from smooth board and paint, which is why the effect reads so strongly on an American wall.

Concrete, brick and aged metal finishes

Three material families carry it. Concrete effect is the quietest, cool gray with faint clouding that never repeats exactly. Brick runs from chalky whitewash to deep red-brown. Worked metal arrives with scratches, rust bloom or a dull zinc sheen. Color stays narrow across all three, cool gray through anthracite, with earth tones and off-white at the edges, so the wall reads as surface, not pattern. Keep the other walls quiet with plain wallpaper, or carry the tone through with gray wallpaper. At the dark end of the same palette sits black wallpaper.

Small rooms take industrial wallpaper better than expected

A double-height entryway or open-plan great room is the obvious candidate, but tight spaces are where this finish earns its place. A powder room in concrete effect stops reading as a leftover closet. Because the tones sit back, these designs rarely argue with cabinetry or trim already in place.

Warm materials against a raw wall

Put leather, oak and wool against it, and light the room from several points at eye level instead of one ceiling fixture. Metal in the hardware or lamp bases picks the theme up without chilling it. For relief you can feel rather than printed shadow, textured wallpaper suits this world, and a short run of metallic wallpaper brings the metal note back softly.

What a European roll of industrial wallpaper covers

Our brands supply European rolls: typically 33 ft (10.05 m) long by 20.9 in (53 cm) wide, roughly the coverage of an American double roll. Ceilings run higher here, so a 9 or 10 ft wall usually yields three strips from a roll where a European room gives four. Hold a roll spare when the repeat is long. For a wall you want covered in one image instead of a repeating design, look at the industrial murals.

Non-woven backing and paste-the-wall hanging

Most of the range here is printed on non-woven backing, so you paste the wall and hang the strip dry, which is faster and cleaner. For a kitchen wall or an entry that takes daily wear, some designs come with a tougher, washable surface. Substrate, finish and repeat are listed per design. Gray and rust shift a long way under artificial light, so order a sample and judge it in your own room first.

Delivery from Europe with duties included

Every order ships from Europe with import duties and fees paid up front, so nothing is collected at the door. Not sure how many rolls a stairwell takes? Send the measurements and we will work it through with you.