From blousy blooms to delicate trails, these enchanting, floriferous prints are perfect for breathing new life into rooms of your home this spring
WISTERIA HYSTERIA
Celebrating the beauty of wisteria and covered with its long, trailing blooms, the Seraphina wallpaper from Colefax & Fowler oozes timeless elegance. Reminiscent of stylised florals found on Japanese screens, it is guaranteed to bring romance to a dining room and would work particularly well in rooms with high ceilings where it has space to shine. The dreamy wallpaper print is available in five delicate, aged colourways, including Old Blue (pictured), priced £88 per roll. The design is also available across a range of fabrics.
A HAPPY PLACE
Increasingly, homeowners are getting bolder with kitchen design, embracing colour and pattern to bring ‘dopamine décor’ to these functional spaces. A hero print in the Harlequin x Sophie Robinson collection, the Woodland Floral paper features beautiful illustrations of flowers found in Sophie’s garden, including primrose, peony and laburnum. Displaying an array of tones, this Peridot/Ruby/Pearl colourway, £89 per roll, offers great scope for co-ordinating with painted kitchen cabinets.
Elegant and familiar, floral prints are a decorating staple that appear in fabric and wallpaper collections season after season. From large-scale designs to ditsy prints, they are diverse, versatile and bursting with life. ‘The beauty of florals is the vitality and positive energy they bring, combined with the ease of mixing in other patterns for a layered scheme,’ says Claire Greenfield, lead designer at Harlequin. ‘Decorating with florals is about embracing the joy of bringing the outdoors in. Layering florals with stripes and drawing out colours from designs to complete your palette can make a space really impactful.’
While our love affair with florals of all styles seems enduring, some patterns, in particular, have come to the fore over recent years. Smallscale prints are everywhere and are a go-to due to their versatility. Equally, as we become more confident about embracing pattern in our homes, large-scale, maximalist designs continue to rise in popularity, as do immersive botanical murals for those looking for escapism.
Flowers are one of the favourite motifs among independent designers looking to express their love of colour, nature and the maker’s mark. Folksy designs are aplenty, and embroidered fabrics also feature regularly as homeowners seek to embrace gentle texture.
The vast, historic archive of floral patterns continues to be a rich source of decorative inspiration for designers. From 17th-century Chinese wallcoverings to Arts and Crafts prints of the late 19th and early 20th century, original documents are redrawn, recoloured and reprinted in many contemporary colourways, perfect for bringing a
