Features and advantages
Wallpaper finishing has such advantages as price, the ability to update the walls yourself, a wide choice of types and colors. Striped wallpaper, as one of the design varieties, is used when there is a need to visually increase or expand the room. The strip also performs a decorative function.
For example, in a Scandinavian or minimalist style, such finishing can be the only decor. Striped wallpaper can be combined with plain walls and will suit any interior.
Types of stripes
Geometry and stripes on wallpaper perform the function of visually distorting the perception of the room in its favor.
Vertical stripes
Stretches the room and raises the ceiling. The final look of the interior depends on the color of the stripes, their alternation and size.
Horizontal stripes
They expand a narrow but long room with a high ceiling. Not recommended for interiors with a low ceiling, where a transverse stripe will make it even lower.
The photo shows a striped green-beige room interior with red accents, which is not overloaded with wall decor.
Diagonal stripe
Suitable for an interior with walls of irregular geometric shape, a room in the attic. In this case, one wall can be striped, and the rest – plain.
Types of wallpaper
Each type of striped wallpaper has unique characteristics due to its composition, which plays an important role in the final appearance of the interior.
Size and design of stripes
An interior with striped wallpaper looks impressive, beautiful and functional.
Wide stripe
Suitable for a room of any size, but such wallpaper reveals itself best in a spacious living room or bedroom.
Narrow stripe
It can be frequent or rare, contrasting or monochromatic. When choosing wallpaper with a small stripe, there should be a minimum of furniture and decor, combined with monochromatic curtains.
Stripes with flowers
Suitable for rustic, Provence style, children’s rooms and informal interiors of the bedroom or living room.
The photo shows a striped interior with a floral pattern, where the wallpaper matches the textiles and upholstery in color.
Single-color stripes
They look calm and discreet. From a distance they look like single-color wallpaper. They do not cause eye strain and do not get boring for many years.
Striped wallpaper with a pattern
Suitable for a child’s interior, an accent wall or with a combination of plain walls.
Striped wallpaper with an ornament
They are selected for the living room, wide dining room, bedroom, the ornament can be geometric, floral, with monograms of a contrasting or similar color.
Textured stripes on wallpaper
They look voluminous due to the vinyl relief layer. The protruding stripes add movement to the design. They can cause fatigue, so they are used in combination with single-color walls.
Shiny stripes
They symbolize dynamics, energy and attract attention. The shine can be textile, gold or silver. They come in thin and large stripes.
The photo shows the interior of the living room with shiny stripes that shine with a velvety sheen at a certain angle.
Color scheme
White
White striped wallpaper is suitable for a small space, it expands a large room even more. A universal color for any interior. White and blue or white and light blue stripes are suitable for a bedroom and a nursery.
Gray
Gray stripes look impressive on any bright or neutral background. Wide gray stripes are suitable for a bedroom, a nursery or a kitchen. The gray and white room is complemented by bright textiles.
Beige
Beige looks neutral against a white, brown background, balances the bright background.
The photo shows a milky beige interior with medium-sized striped wallpaper in a classic style, which are combined with curtains.
Brown
Brown stripes are suitable for the home comfort of the living room, bedroom, looks good on a white, coffee, orange background.
Black
Black striped wallpaper looks strict, depending on the size of the stripes greatly affect the perception of the room. The black and white room is diluted with bright decor.
Red
The red stripe looks spectacular on textile wallpaper, suitable for an accent wall.
Burgundy
Burgundy stripes create the grandeur of a classic interior and a bright accent in a modern design, a bold choice for a living room.
Orange
Bright orange stripe brings a note of warmth without an abundance of color, suits gray, black, white background.
Gold
Gold striped wallpaper comes in different intensities and goes well with black, white, and beige colors in the interior.
The photo shows a bedroom interior with gold striped wallpaper in a classic style.
Green
Green stripes relieve stress, set you up for relaxation, and go well with red, white, black, brown background.
Light green
Light green stripes arouse interest, attract attention, combine with other patterns of orange, red.
Blue
Blue looks solid when combined with different shades, suitable for a child’s room in combination with white, gray.
Blue
Blue stripes in combination with white, gray look classic, often used for the interior of bedrooms and bathrooms.
The photo shows a white and blue striped interior, where the wallpaper is illuminated by soft decorative light and complemented by paintings in identical frames.
Turquoise
Turquoise stripes look bright and discreet at the same time, combined with vanilla, gray, brown colors.
Pink
Pink striped wallpaper is suitable for a girl’s room, the combined white and pink stripes complement each other in contrast.
Yellow
Yellow stripes are best combined with other bright stripes, should be combined with the same textiles.
Purple
Purple stripes are suitable for a light background, create the effect of a bright and dynamic interior.
Lilac
Lilac stripes are used in medium and large rooms, combined with lemon, gray, pink, white.
Multicolored
Multicolored striped wallpaper can be of different widths, combine up to 5 colors, where one turns into another, or all the lines are colored and of different shades.
The photo shows a multicolored striped wall at the head of the bed, which is combined with a gray base color.
Photo in the interior of rooms
Striped wallpaper will suit the interior of any room and will favorably emphasize its advantages with the right choice of color, size and location of the strip.
Hallway and hallway
For this room, it is better to do it in white stripes to compensate for the lack of daylight in a darkened room. A combination of white with beige, gold, yellow, pistachio, light green, orange will do.
Kitchen
Most often filled with a kitchen set and other furniture, vertical two-color stripes of different sizes or neutral wide stripes will be combined with mosaics or tiles of the apron. Curtains are selected to match the color of the textiles.
Living room
Can be pasted in striped wallpaper of any size. Pastel stripes on a light blue or neutral background will suit a Scandinavian or minimalist style, a classic interior can be made with wide and medium stripes in green and white or red and white.
Children’s
Can be in gray-pink, gray-white, gray-blue stripes. For a teenager, a combination of lilac-violet, white-violet, blue-white colors is suitable.
The photo shows a striped multi-colored interior in a modern style with a bright sofa and a hanging chair.
Bedroom
Allows a combination of white with pale blue, soft pink, light green shade. You can make an accent wall or two parallel walls striped. Plain walls are additionally decorated with paintings.
The photo shows a white and beige bedroom interior in a modern style with an accent striped wall.
Choosing curtains
Textiles should be in harmony with the wallpaper, so there are several options for choosing curtains.
- Curtains and the main color of the wallpaper in the same tone. This solution is suitable for a small room and a neutral interior without an accent on the window.
- Bright curtains are suitable for a large living room and hall, where you need to “bring closer” the window, the stripe is selected to match the main tone of the walls.
- Curtains that differ in tone do not violate the unity, but draw a border between the walls and curtains.
- The size of the stripes, their position and color on the wallpaper can be combined with the curtains.
- By type of curtains, short ones, curtains, Roman blinds, blinds, pleated ones are suitable.
Wallpaper combinations
If the room is small, you can highlight zones and delimit the space with companion wallpapers.
Striped and plain wallpaper
Striped wallpaper in the interior can be combined with plain wallpaper that repeats the color of the background or stripes, it can also be a neutral or bright contrasting choice.
Striped and patterned wallpaper
Striped wallpaper can be combined with patterned wallpaper in spacious rooms to avoid overloading the interior with decor on the walls. The pattern and stripe are beautifully combined in identical shades.
In the photo, striped wallpaper is combined with patterned wallpaper in the interior of one room to increase the space of a narrow room.
Styles
Striped wallpaper is widely used in different interior styles, from classic to modern designs.
Provence
It is recognized in pastel shades, pistachio, lilac and pink shades of wallpaper with white or gray stripes of medium or small size, which can be combined with the image of birds, wallpaper with flowers.
Classic style
Classic chooses monochromatic or low-contrast combinations of stripes on wallpaper. Most often, this is the average size of the same stripes with an equal interval of placement. Pastel shades of white, green, blue, beige are used.
Modern style
Can be with contrasting black and white or minimalist single-color stripes. Wide stripes, multi-colored combinations on one wall, combinations with single-color walls are used.
Marine style
Marine style with blue-light blue or turquoise stripes is combined with yellow, white, sand wallpaper and a red accent in the decor.
The photo shows a marine bedroom interior with striped wallpaper in white and blue colors.
English style
English style and discreet stripes on a green, red, beige background emphasize an aristocratic interior with dark furniture and a leather sofa. The stripe is selected in medium size.
