This Behr ad better represents the wall color.

I LOOOVE the wall color. I am into that hue right now. I also like the wallpaper. The curtains are too high contrast for me, though. You have a fancy laundry room.

@Susie .

Can you suggest a different curtain design? I love the wall color too. I also have it on a wall in my staircase.

I see what you're trying to do - relate the wallpaper to the curtains - which it is. I just don't personally like the stripe effect with the high contrast. If I were doing black/white, I'd do white with black bands. Sorry to cover up your chaise.

Your idea may turn out better - I get migraines from looking at high contrast stripes, so I get PTSD whenever I see them. If you like the stripes better, do the stripes!

I like the stripes better but I am at a loss for creativity when it comes to what pattern with this wallpaper. I definitely want patterned curtains. I have those same striped curtains in my bedroom across the hall from this room. It may or may not be a good idea to repeat the same curtains in two rooms. I'm not sure.

I don't think it's a bad idea to repeat them. I don't see any other black/white patterns that work as well with the wallpaper. Stripes tend to work with most patterns. You don't want to get too geometric since the wallpaper has so much movement.

You are more courageous with pattern than I am and also are able to pull it off.

Maybe a deep blue will pull the room together and allow the wallpaper to be the focal point vs it fighting with the curtains.

Do another, smaller, inkblot pattern. Spoonflower has a panel much like the one shown in this photo called a double inkblot...what you get when you fold over the wet ink pattern.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/home-decor/living-decor/curtains/8483711-soot-on-cream-double-inkblot-by-danika_herrick?size=HOME_GOOD_50_BY_84_CURTAIN_PANEL

Vertical b&w stripes are the right idea but if you haven't already keep looking around to see what different width of stripes might be available.

And here's another possibility

White Black Ring Top Tissue Curtain -47Wx84L-Piece · More Info

PS: Since it appears you have high ceilings and want to hang the drapes from the ceiling, probably you'll be getting custom curtains. Lots of choices once you start looking at fabric instead of pre-made curtains. I like these broken vertical dashes.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/8373341-denim-line-white-mudcloth-large-by-holli_zollinger

I am not crazy about the curtains with the paper. Maybe a graffiti-ish print?

Love all of this!!

Although not sure about a furry rug with laundry lint.

I would look into either a smaller size stripe for the curtains or maybe do an ombre effect.....

Please please please post before and after photos!!

@Maureen

I assume you mean purple, the same color as the wall??

@elcieg

Those ink blot curtains would be pretty wild with all the pattern going on the ceiling. I will have to Photoshop that and see how I feel about it.

@mytwo cents

Same as above. I need to Photoshop these ideas.

@A M

I definitely won't do red but I do love the idea of graffiti.

@Jilly

I had completely written of matching the walls but then you threw me a curveball with a funky tieback. Now you have my wheels spinning. This is why I love your suggestions. You give me something else to consider. What do you think of instead of doing a tieback making one that is not tied but simply holds the curtains in place. Something out of a solid material instead of rope. I am imagining something in gold/bronze to match the light fixture and some of the same designs as in dogon doors. How do you think that would look?

I am traveling. I need to get home asap and photoshop these ideas! It is so helpful to have many eyes looking at a space to bounce ideas off of. I think it is key, at least for me, to pulling a room together.

“What do you think of instead of doing a tieback making one that is not tied but simply holds the curtains in place. Something out of a solid material instead of rope. I am imagining something in gold/bronze to match the light fixture and some of the same designs as in dogon doors. How do you think that would look?”

Yes! Exactly that! I should have clarified that in my post. I think it would fit the room so well!

I’ve seen some great ones — animals, serpents, a big single flower, sun/moon/stars, and on and on. Love the idea to do the dogon doors design. So unique!

I’m kind of obsessed with tie-back curtains … I started a thread about them a quite a while back. :)

Love Jilly’s idea for the velvet curtains - feel like it would envelope the room instead of breaking it up (and the curtains need heft to stand up to the saturated colors) BTW if this were my laundry room, I would not mind doing laundry so much 🤩

@Debbi Washburn

I love those sheer curtains in the bottom photo. I have never been a fan of sheers until a few days ago. I am staying at a hotel in Atlanta and the sheers at the end of the hallway are totally sexy. I never thought of sheers as sexy until now. However, I live in an urban area. The house next door is an arms length away. Sheers would never work in this room. I will think about the smaller stripes.

@Jilly, @la_la Girl

I am giving some serious consideration to this idea. I love the idea of the tiebacks. Why didn't I bring my laptop along with me in this trip???? I also love those sheers but that would never work in a million years.

La_la laundry is still a drag. This room is multipurpose out of necessity. My house is too small.

Which of these mockups do you think looks best?

Purple curtains with some sort of oversized tieback as @Jilly suggested

Plain purple curtains with no tieback

Or small black and white stripes as @Debbi Washburn suggested

I think I might like a wallpaper plus matching fabric set up here, if you could find it.

I like Queen of Spain, which comes as paper and fabric. The scale is smaller but it's still substantial.

Wow, the mockup with the purple (velvet!) curtain and tieback is FABULOUS!

I'm for #1 and #2

Ditto Ida, love that!

@palimpsest

I gush of Queen of Spain every time I see it. Love that print but it is way out of my price range.

I might be able to find a more reasonably priced wallpaper and fabric combo though.

@Ida Claire, @mytwo cents

I really like the velvet with a tieback, though I like Queen of Spain more. I think I am in for many returns before I find the right color. But I think a huge tieback with snakes and African figures could be fabulous. I am thinking a really tall tieback in the 3' range. Does that sound fabulous or more of a flop to you?

Love the idea of a velvet curtain with a big tie back!

I would suggest stopping in a fabric store and getting a piece of velvet scrap and hang it on the wall. You just want to make sure that over time it doesn't attract a lot of lint.

Regarding the current rug, what do you think of the color? Does it work with the black and white wallpaper and velvet curtains?

Also, if I can't find the correct color of purple velvet curtains, what would you think of black velvet since the walpaper is black and white?

Look at Spoonflower. Most, if not all, of the fabrics are also wallpapers. I did a guest bathroom with a wallpaper and used a smaller scale of the pattern on the shower curtain. There are about 12 types of coordinating fabrics for each design (thousands).

Cotton, Linen, Velvet, Chiffon, Poplin, Satin, etc. I just pulled some black and whites since that was what you had originally posted.

Here is my bath. I happen to like pirates and mermaids.

@A M

That is a spectacular bathroom. I am so happy you shared this. I had not thought about Spoonflower even though I was just looking on their website for living room curtains two weeks ago. I find it so helpful when people share their personal spaces. Fabulous! I will take a look at their website.

so i think if you find just the right purple drape you don't need the extra bling of the tieback and it might be too much. But if you go with black drape against the black painted wall, maybe the bling makes it special.

@ilikefriday...is this "you"?

Yes @K L, love those! I am thinking something really tall with snakes and locks, and figures you might find on Dogon doors. I thought I would repeat that theme in this room, though I know themed rooms are sort of frowned upon around here. These will likely be homemade tiebacks.

@ilikefriday

Ahhhh.....well then, snakes for stripes on your drapery panels?