As with color, pattern is something people are sometimes afraid of using but if you are worried you will tire of a bold pattern, you could use it only in the areas that you pass through - rather than in rooms you spend more time in.
However, used correctly, wallpaper should not really be so in your face that you tire of it any more than you might your husband, or other strong elements in the house. Marthe Armitage, the octogenarian wallpaper designer, believes they should fade into the background and simply provide a canvas for pictures, furniture and the general clatter of life. This may seem odd, as one would have thought she would want them to be the main event, yet she is right, and patterned papers are so much better in the background. It is wrong to think that you cannot put pictures on wallpaper.
If you are not ready to paper your entire drawing room, start in small rooms. Pattern can actually make a small space feel larger, rather than oppressive; your eye is drawn through it rather than halted quite flatly, as it is with a painted wall. It is great to give a small bathroom the gaiety of a tremendous wallpaper.
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