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Home Décor, Interior Design
There’s few decorating decisions that deliver quite as much impact as an accent wall. Also known as a feature wall, it’s a single wall given a little extra character ~ a bold wallpaper, a deep, dramatic colour, an immersive mural – while the rest of the room plays a quieter, supporting role. The beauty of it lies in the balance of effort and reward.
We’ve spent eighty years helping people think differently about their walls, and a feature wall is one of our favourite places to start. Here’s some inspiration to help you create one you’ll love coming home to.
Before the fun part, a little expert advice: the wall you choose matters as much as what you put on it. The best feature walls build on a room’s natural focal point ~ the chimney breast, the wall behind a bed or sofa, the one that first greets you as you walk in. Choosing the wall the eye is already drawn to makes your design feel intentional rather than out of place.
As a rule of thumb, a feature wall works best on a wall without too many windows, doors or awkward interruptions, where your chosen design has the room to be appreciated in full.
Wallpaper is the classic feature wall, and for good reason. A single wall is the perfect way to enjoy a bolder design ~ a sweeping damask, a delicate floral, a graphic geometric ~ without overwhelming a room. Our feature wall wallpapers span every mood, from quietly elegant to gloriously dramatic, so there’s a design to suit a calm bedroom and a characterful hallway alike.
The trick is to let the paper lead and keep everything else considered. Pair a busy pattern with the other three walls in a soft, complementary tone, and your feature wall comes beautifully to the foreground. Each of our beautiful wallpapers are perfectly partnered with four complementary premium paint colours.
Wallpaper is the classic feature wall, and for good reason. A single wall is the perfect way to enjoy a bolder design ~ a sweeping damask, a delicate floral, a graphic geometric ~ without overwhelming a room. Our feature wall wallpapers span every mood, from quietly elegant to gloriously dramatic, so there’s a design to suit a calm bedroom and a characterful hallway alike.
The trick is to let the paper lead and keep everything else considered. Pair a busy pattern with the other three walls in a soft, complementary tone, and your feature wall comes beautifully to the foreground. Each of our beautiful wallpapers are perfectly partnered with four complementary premium paint colours.
You don’t need pattern to make an impact. A single wall painted in a rich, characterful shade is one of the simplest ways to add depth and atmosphere, especially in a bedroom or snug where you’d like a cocooning feel. Our dark paints are made for exactly this: think an opulent bottle green like Adeline, a deep damson, or a midnight navy.
For an even more enveloping look, you might consider colour-drenching ~ carrying the same shade across the walls, woodwork and even the ceiling for a seamless, immersive effect. And don’t overlook the finishing touch of picking out skirting or trim in a hard-wearing eggshell; it’s the kind of small detail that makes a scheme feel properly finished. A word on lighting, too: deep colours shift beautifully through the day, so it’s always worth living with a tester through both morning and evening light before you commit.
For the most immersive feature wall of all, nothing quite matches a bespoke mural. Where wallpaper repeats a pattern, a bespoke mural is a single, uninterrupted scene ~ a misty forest, a sweeping landscape, an oriental garden ~ printed to your wall’s exact measurements. It turns one wall into a window capturing somewhere else entirely, and makes a genuinely show-stopping centrepiece for a living room, bedroom or hallway.
Not every feature wall needs to shout. For a subtler kind of statement, texture adds interest in a gentler register. Grasscloth wallpaper, woven from natural fibres, brings tactile warmth and a soft play of light to a single wall, lifting a neutral scheme without competing with it. It’s a lovely choice if you’d like your feature wall to feel calm and grounding.
This is where a feature wall really comes together. Because we design our wallpapers and paints to partner perfectly, you can pull a colour straight from your feature wallpaper and carry it across the rest of the room. A green picked out from a botanical print, a blush drawn from a floral, a charcoal lifted from a geometric ~ matched in paint on the surrounding walls, it makes the whole scheme feel cohesive and intentional.
This is where a feature wall really comes together. Because we design our wallpapers and paints to partner perfectly, you can pull a colour straight from your feature wallpaper and carry it across the rest of the room. A green picked out from a botanical print, a blush drawn from a floral, a charcoal lifted from a geometric ~ matched in paint on the surrounding walls, it makes the whole scheme feel cohesive and intentional.
However you approach it, an accent wall is an invitation to be a little bolder than you might be across a whole room ~ a chance to express something of your own taste and character in a single, confident gesture. Take your time choosing, trust the wall that draws your eye, and you’ll create a focal point that feels both considered and uniquely yours.
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