Embrace 2024’s Top Wallpaper Trends

Whether you’re looking to replace existing wallpaper in your living room with something fresh or swap out painted bedroom walls for a modern wallpaper style, you’ll want to know what the latest wallpaper trends are in 2024.

In this blog, we’ll discuss the styles, colours and patterns in fashion this year to help you get ideas of what wallpaper trends might best suit your preferences.

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Blue Tones Are In

In 2024, some of the more popular wallpaper trends include those with shades of blue. Pale blue wallpaper can act as a great way of introducing neutral base tones to a room, which can work well with other neutrals to create a soothing and comfortable environment.

Going with a deeper blue, you may find that this works best with colours like yellow, white, pink, gold or orange. As an Earthy colour (more on that later), blue fits well with other natural gradients, including greens, reds and browns.

As with other wallpaper colours, you may want to add other colours to compare or contrast furniture, fixtures/fittings, ornaments, curtains, utensils (where suited), a table or more. In general, it’s important to consider how various colours may look within a given space and the sort of feel and character they can provide.

Retro ‘70s Look

You’ll also want to consider going for a retro 1970s look, which you can achieve by opting for modernised wallpaper renditions of classic seventies styles.

In recent times, 1970s-style decor has seen a resurgence in popularity, and this includes modernised seventies wallpaper.

Some popular retro-modern 1970s wallpaper trends include:

• Scandinavian wallpaper look
• Botanical style wallpaper
• Harlequin contour style
• Sinon orange wallpaper *
• Retro chic wallpaper designs
• Trippy 1970s wallpaper style
• Hexagonal wallpaper appearance

*This design utilises a mix of browns and oranges, giving that quintessential 1970s look.

Earthy Colours

As touched on, Earthy colours can provide a more natural look for your home. Common Earthy tones include blue, brown, green, red, grey, orange and beige. Notably, Earthy colours are generally the paler tones of the colours mentioned.

Wallpapers that utilise one or more Earthy colours will provide a calming environment that emulates the look and feel of the natural world. Of course, Earthy wallpaper designs can range widely from those that simply utilise a single tone throughout (e.g. sea blue wallpaper) to botanical wallpaper to marble texture bathroom wallpaper.

Peachy Wallpaper

Another trending option in 2024 is peach wallpaper. Pink, peach, red, brown and orange can all work well together in a space, with one or more of these tones appearing on wallpaper to create a warm, welcoming space.

Moreover, Peach Fuzz, in particular, is a trending colour, with it being declared Colour of the Year for 2024 by Pantone.

Statement Stripes

Returning to the design and style department, statement stripes emphasise a certain degree of colour along with a contrasting tone (as some examples, you may want to go with bright blue and white, black and white or beige and grey).

Among the advantages (which can vary depending on the exact type of statement stripe wallpaper being used) include giving the perception of increased height when using vertical striped wallpaper where the stripes are spread out tightly.

Beyond that, statement stripes, when presented horizontally and in the right design, can make a room feel wider. What’s more, statement stripes can liven up a space and introduce a unique character.

Some of the most notable statement stripe designs include vertical, horizontal, jagged, trippy and botanical.

Gorgeous Wall Murals

Wall mural wallpaper remains a common choice for consumers in 2024. What’s more, there exists a very wide range of options on the market.

Some of the top aesthetically pleasing wall mural design options are:

• Abstract
• Oceanic
• Earthy (incl. Botanical)
• Urban
• Cottage/Rural

Of course, these are just some standout design types. Further, the range of actual wallpaper wall mural options on the market is very extensive. So, if considering this approach, you’ll need to set aside sufficient time to find the right wallpaper wall mural for you and your home.

Wood Panelled Wallpaper

Last but not least, in an emerging trend, an increasing number of households are choosing to have wallpaper added to wall panelling and even behind joinery.

For these sorts of wallpaper installations, you should hire a professional to fit the wallpaper. This is because adding wallpaper to wood panels or/and the back of joinery can be complicated, with errors in the installation process leading to issues, whether functional or safety-related.