One of the main reasons I dream of buying my own place is literally so I can wallpaper it. That’s right. Not for any grown-up reasons, but so I can get my craft-on in a way that rental properties don’t allow. Oh yeah, I want cats too, lots of them, but that’s another matter.
Great Britain loves a good wallpaper story. They’re into it I tell you. It might be all the indoor activity that goes on here. I've come across a great many designs while pottering through home-wares shops and not one harks back to the beige florals that lined the kitchen cupboards of my youth!
House of Hackney is a great example of exhilarating interior fun. I stumbled upon them last year after they had taken over a derelict Victorian town-house on the Kingsland Road. Performing something of a resurrection, their textiles brought renewed life to a dilapidated interior.
I can’t mention modern wallpaper without paying due respect to the extraordinary creative flair of Florence Broadhurst. This Australian born lass knew more than a thing or two about colour and design (if you have a penchant for remarkable women I highly recommend her biography). And rather fittingly she spent the good part of a decade in the UK.
I think we should all take a leaf out of Florence’s book and banish white walls in favour of a bit of wallpapery fun.
