My son has the same wallpaper in his dining room. The rest of the front of the house, except the kitchen, is painted a very pale creamish yellow. Standing a few feet away from the room, it looks like the paint matches the cream background of the wallpaper. It's absolutely stunning to look at!

I personally love cream and white together. It's beautiful on its own or can act like a blank canvas, giving me freedom to change my mind with the hardware, textiles, wall accessories from season to season. I'm just finishing up a cream and white bathroom reno with light gray accents and chrome finishes, it's refreshing and calming at the same time. If you have a piece of the wallpaper, head into the paint store to find the white that compliments your wallpaper....or bring some paint swatches home. Once narrowed down, buy a pint and paint a posterboard to move around from wall to wall at different times of the day. Although you will have cream walls with white cabinets, these are a couple cream/white rooms I've always admired....

I love the jungle-y one. I have papered and a powder room isn't very easy as it's a tight squeeze, so it all depends on how patient you are :) Of course taking out the toilet and sink will make it easier, but I've done it without taking them out. There's just enough room behind most toilets (take off the lid, obv.) to drop the paper behind it, then you need to find something to smooth it out (a car snow brush worked for me)...when you drop it down, you have to have it perfectly plumb, which it will be if the previous piece is (but the previous piece will be a corner, so you'll have to check check and check again for that line). So after you smooth it down, you'll have the water line to deal with. Smooth down to there and then cut straight up from the bottom to fit both sides around it (obv pulling out the circular cover and cutting a bit of a circle in the right place). The cut edges should then match and they will be near the floor behind the loo, so nobody will see. Sink bottom is a bit more difficult because you cant get back there easily. My best advice for it is that it's similar to the toilet, but you'll be cursing more :) because you're going around a rather large oval....so start your cutout for that small and slowly make it larger....for the sides, you have to make slices until it just fits (pasted paper has a touch of stretch. Honestly...cheapest, but worst room of any house for me to paper...

palimsest I am for sure not going to do wainscoting. I really like where you showed what that would look like with the side wall papered and the fixture wall painted. The side walls wouldn't be too hard to do and I really do think it would look good. If I do the side walls in the paper and paint the fixture wall black then What is your opinion on my oil rubbed bronze towel bar, light sconces and tp holder? leave them, paint them(what color?) or replace them(what color?)