The Merchant’s Journal

Timbale wallpaper in a bedroom demonstrating scale and proportion

How Designers Use Scale and Proportion to Make ...

When a room feels almost right but not quite resolved, scale is often the missing ingredient. Here is how to use proportion across wallpaper, furniture, rugs, lighting and art.

How Designers Use Scale and Proportion to Make ...

When a room feels almost right but not quite resolved, scale is often the missing ingredient. Here is how to use proportion across wallpaper, furniture, rugs, lighting and art.

Peonies and Cosmos botanical wallpaper with expressive floral detail

Botanical Wallpaper Without the Cliché

Botanical wallpaper can be moody, graphic, painterly or wonderfully strange. The key is to treat it as art rather than turning the whole room into a theme.

Botanical Wallpaper Without the Cliché

Botanical wallpaper can be moody, graphic, painterly or wonderfully strange. The key is to treat it as art rather than turning the whole room into a theme.

Layered interior with Maud and Nycklas wallpaper showing a collected mix of pattern and objects

The Art of a Collected Interior: How to Layer O...

The most convincing homes rarely look as though they were bought in a weekend. Mixing old and new, polished and imperfect, creates the layers that make a room feel personal.

The Art of a Collected Interior: How to Layer O...

The most convincing homes rarely look as though they were bought in a weekend. Mixing old and new, polished and imperfect, creates the layers that make a room feel personal.

Chirp wallpaper showing expressive pattern in an interior setting

Small Room, Big Pattern: Why Scale Can Work in ...

Small rooms do not have to shrink away behind tiny prints and pale colour. Large-scale wallpaper can make a compact space feel more deliberate, immersive and memorable.

Small Room, Big Pattern: Why Scale Can Work in ...

Small rooms do not have to shrink away behind tiny prints and pale colour. Large-scale wallpaper can make a compact space feel more deliberate, immersive and memorable.

Vincent Navy wallpaper used across a richly styled interior

Feature Wall or Full Room? A Better Way to Decide

There is no universal rule that bold wallpaper belongs on one wall. The better question is what treatment makes sense for the architecture, pattern and atmosphere you want to create.

Feature Wall or Full Room? A Better Way to Decide

There is no universal rule that bold wallpaper belongs on one wall. The better question is what treatment makes sense for the architecture, pattern and atmosphere you want to create.

Bedward wallpaper in a styled interior, illustrating how to assess wallpaper in a real room

Wallpaper Samples: How to Test a Design Before ...

A wallpaper sample is not just for checking colour. Use it to understand scale, light, contrast and how the design behaves alongside the things already in your room.

Wallpaper Samples: How to Test a Design Before ...

A wallpaper sample is not just for checking colour. Use it to understand scale, light, contrast and how the design behaves alongside the things already in your room.