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Design Guide | How to Use Wallpaper to Decorate Small Spaces


Interior Design: @bornandbredstudio Photography: @annastathakiphoto *Featuring Sarah Wallpaper in Rose

In this Design Guide we are focussing on how wallpaper can enhance small spaces by using pattern and colour to create an impact.

Powder rooms, boot rooms and entrance halls are ideal smaller spaces that provide that perfect opportunity to be bold and create really impactful interior design.

Go Bold

Embrace smaller rooms with large repeat patterns to make the space feel bigger.
Going bold with a large scale patterns will add depth and visual interest to your small spaces.


Our Sarah Wallpaper features large-scale, hand-painted, gestural brushstrokes. This bold, painterly wallpaper will create a fresh and playful look to your interiors.

Available in 4 colourways Rose, Winter, Spring and Sage.


Mix It Up

Layer up patterns, look for styles and colours that compliment each other. Stripes and geometrics are great options to pair with bold patterns.

We love how Born and Bred Studio have paired our big and bold Sarah wallpaper with the striped tiles to create the perfect visual contrast in a small space.


Celebrate Colour

Starting with your pattern, pull your scheme together by picking out a colour from the wallpaper and incorporate it into your design by using it on the woodwork or bring that colour up onto the ceiling to create a really contemporary and harmonious feel to your space.

All of our wallpapers have a subtle, textured surface that adds a beautiful and luxurious finish to the wall.

Interior Design: Nicky Alexander

Interior Design: Cindy McKay

Interior Design: Lark Interiors

We love how Interior Designers Nicky Alexander, Cindy McKay & Lark Interiors have used these techniques for their small spaces.
*Featuring our Heather Wallpaper Multi Winter, Heather Wallpaper Multi Sand and Evergreen Wallpaper Dark Multi.

Finally, if you are wanting to add a just touch of pattern to your scheme consider adding wallpaper behind alcove shelving or in a kitchen pantry.

All of our wallpaper here at Imogen Heath is printed to order in the UK.
Suitable for both residential and commercial use.


If you have any images from projects using our wallpapers and/or fabrics we would love to see them, please send to: info@imogenheath.com