Choosing Kitchen Wallpaper

Kitchen wallpaper is an instant way to decorate. It adds color, defines a decorating theme and provides texture to the busiest room in the house. This, however, is not your mother’s style of decorating with wallpaper. Gone are the days of covering every inch of a room. Today’s style of kitchen wallpaper concentrates on style. Today’s wallpaper accents, rather than totally wraps a room. One wall may be the beneficiary of stylish new wallpaper, while the other three walls are swathed with a color pulled from the paper itself.

Kitchen wallpaper today might cover a soffit or a backsplash and if it doesn’t share the walls with paint, it might be a companion wallpaper design. Kitchen wallpaper can be cut into smaller segments and matted in picture frames or designs may be cut out of the wallpaper and used a appliqués.

However you decide to use kitchen wallpaper, make sure to use a vinyl paper that can stand up to kitchen dirt and grease.

While anything goes when it comes to decorating your home, there are some tried and true kitchen patterns that work. In most cases, you can find coordinating decorative accessories to go with these patterns.

• Checks, especially in black and white, red and white or blue and white
• Roosters and chickens
• Sunflowers
• Italian chefs
• Apples (or any other types of fruits and vegetables)
• Tuscany style with grapes or wine bottles
• Chili peppers

If kitchen wallpaper seems too much… well, too much wallpaper, but you still want a pattern, then consider kitchen wallpaper borders, stickers or a mural. Like their cousins, these small decorative accents come in vinyl, so they can be wiped off. Boarders and murals can be applied like wallpaper, while stickers placed, removed and removed easily and repositioned (in most cases).