Muted old-blue chinoiserie wallpaper with taupe branches, birds and seated figures

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Toile Chinoise Wallpaper Old Blue

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Toile Chinoise Wallpaper Old Blue places a softly muted blue ground beneath winding branches, perched birds and finely drawn chinoiserie figures. The cool, weathered tone gives the scene a quiet, antique character.

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About this wallpaper

This colourway is built on a pale old-blue ground, with taupe, beige and softly brown outlines defining flowering branches, birds and small seated figures. The low-contrast palette keeps the detailed chinoiserie scene gentle rather than theatrical, while the scattered motifs create movement across the wall. Made from 100% paper, it has an approximate vertical repeat of 46cm and horizontal repeat of 68.5cm. The restrained blue-grey tone works particularly well where a room needs pattern with a calm, faded quality.

How to use it

Use Old Blue across a bedroom, study or garden-facing sitting room, pairing its cool blue-grey ground with chalky whites, aged timber and warm taupe upholstery. Repeat the muted brown and beige detailing in lampshades, wood tones or plain linens rather than introducing a brighter accent.

A cool, softly faded blue chinoiserie ground with taupe branches and delicate figures, suited to elegant bedrooms, studies and sitting rooms.

Pairs well with

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

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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