Bold Wallpaper Brings Color and Fun to the Laundry Room
Laundry load heavy? Lighten up and be inspired by these rooms featuring brightly patterned walls
A small room with enclosed walls can be a great place to try out a bold color or pattern you wouldn’t want in a larger area, like a living room. Often, we see these gutsy colors and patterns in powder rooms. But the laundry room is another great contender for a special treatment. Enjoy these 12 spaces where bold wallpaper helps make doing the wash a little more fun.
2. Fantastic Fox
The horizontal lines of this pattern’s repeat lend a sense of order to the space, even as the Mr. Fox theme gives the room a zany touch. This is a great example of how quirky or bold doesn’t have to feel chaotic.
Wallpaper: Mr. Fox, Scion Spirit & Soul Wallpaper Collection
The horizontal lines of this pattern’s repeat lend a sense of order to the space, even as the Mr. Fox theme gives the room a zany touch. This is a great example of how quirky or bold doesn’t have to feel chaotic.
Wallpaper: Mr. Fox, Scion Spirit & Soul Wallpaper Collection
3. Yellow Diamonds
The yellow color of the wallpaper motif brings in a bit of cheer, while the mustard tile backsplash adds sophistication. This laundry room is relatively spacious, with storage cabinets and a sink, but the print would work just as well in a smaller room.
Wallpaper: Pierre Frey
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The yellow color of the wallpaper motif brings in a bit of cheer, while the mustard tile backsplash adds sophistication. This laundry room is relatively spacious, with storage cabinets and a sink, but the print would work just as well in a smaller room.
Wallpaper: Pierre Frey
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4. Scandinavian Spirit
This Minnesota laundry room manages to be colorful and feel calming at the same time. Color coordination helps: Note that the paint for the wall behind the machines pulls from one of the wallpaper colors.
Wallpaper: Orla Kiely
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This Minnesota laundry room manages to be colorful and feel calming at the same time. Color coordination helps: Note that the paint for the wall behind the machines pulls from one of the wallpaper colors.
Wallpaper: Orla Kiely
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5. Refreshing Green
This wallpaper establishes a clean green and white palette for the room, adding personality and charm to a space that could otherwise feel like a sea of white.
Wallpaper: Thibaut T35110 Russell Square in Green
This wallpaper establishes a clean green and white palette for the room, adding personality and charm to a space that could otherwise feel like a sea of white.
Wallpaper: Thibaut T35110 Russell Square in Green
7. Teal and Red
Teal makes for an unexpected complement to bright red machines, creating an energetic feel. The butterflies add softness and whimsy.
Teal makes for an unexpected complement to bright red machines, creating an energetic feel. The butterflies add softness and whimsy.
8. Modern Floral
The graphic floral pattern of this wallpaper offers a nice contrast to the geometric shapes of the flooring. Its tan, white and blue color scheme works well with the white beadboard paneling and creamy, nearly taupe upper cabinetry.
The graphic floral pattern of this wallpaper offers a nice contrast to the geometric shapes of the flooring. Its tan, white and blue color scheme works well with the white beadboard paneling and creamy, nearly taupe upper cabinetry.
9. Blue and White China
Wallpaper with repeating landscapes brings the feeling of toile to this white and wood laundry room, with images of pagodas, bridges and water evoking Asia.
Wallpaper with repeating landscapes brings the feeling of toile to this white and wood laundry room, with images of pagodas, bridges and water evoking Asia.
10. Circles and Teardrops
The curves of this vivid navy and white wallpaper form a pleasant contrast to the vertical lines of the cabinetry panels. The design is bold but the color, while intense, leans more sedate, for an effect that’s not overwhelming.
Wallpaper: Given Campbell Wallpaper
The curves of this vivid navy and white wallpaper form a pleasant contrast to the vertical lines of the cabinetry panels. The design is bold but the color, while intense, leans more sedate, for an effect that’s not overwhelming.
Wallpaper: Given Campbell Wallpaper
11. Feather-Friendly
A classic pattern gets an update in this wallpaper, where the lines aren’t as perfectly straight as with a standard chevron. One papered wall is plenty for this space, but a smaller room might look nice with all four walls covered.
Wallpaper: Feather, Serena & Lily
A classic pattern gets an update in this wallpaper, where the lines aren’t as perfectly straight as with a standard chevron. One papered wall is plenty for this space, but a smaller room might look nice with all four walls covered.
Wallpaper: Feather, Serena & Lily
12. Best in Show
Various dog breeds deck the walls of this black and white laundry room. Teal accents — including one dog sculpture — bring a bit of vibrant color into the space. This room is long and narrow, but the doggies distract from its shape and bring more emphasis to the room’s style.
Wallpaper: Best in Show, Osborne & Little
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Various dog breeds deck the walls of this black and white laundry room. Teal accents — including one dog sculpture — bring a bit of vibrant color into the space. This room is long and narrow, but the doggies distract from its shape and bring more emphasis to the room’s style.
Wallpaper: Best in Show, Osborne & Little
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If you love red but find it overpowering in a larger space, the laundry room could be a great place to have some fun. This homeowner must do a lot of loads — at least if the three machines are any indication. Keeping one wall white gives the eye a respite from an energetic wallpaper design. And how cute is the matching bag in the foreground?