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Slate grey wallpaper with ivory acanthus leaves and fine engraved linework

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Acanthus Slate

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Acanthus Slate combines a cool slate-grey ground with pale ivory acanthus leaves, creating a softly contrasted botanical surface. Fine drawn details give the scrolling foliage a particularly crisp, archival character.

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About this wallpaper

The repeating acanthus design is densely arranged, with curling stems, serrated leaves and small interior line details picked out in pale ivory against the slate ground. Its cool grey tone feels restrained rather than stark, while the light foliage keeps the overall image open and legible. This wallpaper is supplied at a 52 cm useable width and a 10.05 m standard length. The vertical pattern repeat is 31.8 cm, with the supplied specification recording a 0 cm horizontal repeat; its stated weight is 150 gsm.

How to use it

Use Acanthus Slate across a study, hallway or bedroom where its cool grey ground can sit alongside chalky whites, aged timber and muted blue-grey furnishings. The pale botanical drawing also works well as a calm backdrop behind darker painted joinery.

A cool, detailed botanical wallpaper that brings depth and classic movement to walls without a strong colour contrast.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Acanthus Slate without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

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To stand against it

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