Turquoise wallpaper

Turquoise wallpaper covers more ground than the name suggests: at one end it sits close to pale aqua, at the other it leans so far toward green that most people would call it teal. Where you land decides how the room feels afterward. Several hundred designs in this shade come from European houses like Casamance, Elitis, Thibaut, Texdecor and Vescom.

The turquoise range, from pale aqua to deep teal

At the pale end the shade behaves like a tint of white and keeps a small room open, close to our aqua wallpaper. Toward the middle the pigment strengthens, blue and green pull evenly, and the wall holds its own next to furniture. At the deep end green takes over, into the register you also find in green wallpaper, while a colder cast belongs with blue wallpaper. Order a sample from each zone; an afternoon on your wall settles it.

Rooms where turquoise wallpaper works in an American home

A powder room is the easiest place to start: small walls, artificial light, and nowhere for the color to drain away. An entryway carries the deeper shades well, since you pass through rather than sit in it. In a breakfast nook the paler tones bounce morning light around, and a primary bedroom usually wants the grayer versions. Check the wall first: drywall shows every ridge and taped seam under raking light once a flat color goes over it. For a bathroom, our bathroom wallpaper selection gathers the designs suited to a room that steams.

How surface and sheen change turquoise on the wall

The same shade looks different depending on what it is printed on. A flat non-woven ground holds it steady from morning to night. A woven textile wallcovering breaks it into thousands of small shadows, so the wall reads softer and darker than the sample did. Natural fiber does the most work: raffia wallpaper gives the tone a grain that shifts as you walk past, and Elitis builds much of its catalog around such surfaces.

How European wallpaper houses handle turquoise

Casamance keeps several panoramic ranges alongside its repeats, so the shade can arrive as water, sky or foliage rather than flat color. Thibaut runs a long grasscloth program, where the color comes already textured. Texdecor and Vescom lean toward acoustic and contract-grade grounds, where the color has to take daily wear.

Ordering turquoise wallpaper from the Netherlands

European rolls are sold singly, not as double rolls. A common size is 33 ft (10.05 m) long by 20.9 in (53 cm) wide, though width and repeat vary by brand and appear on each product page. Measure in feet, allow for the repeat, and order all rolls at once so they come from one batch. Duties and taxes are included in the price shown, and orders ship from the Netherlands. Stuck between two shades? Write to us; we see these ranges daily.