Simon Houlding Upholstery
Cream and taupe-grey wallpaper with an irregular overlapping snakeskin-scale pattern

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House of Hackney

COBRA Wallpaper - Phlox

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COBRA Wallpaper - Phlox layers pale cream with smoky taupe-grey in a close, irregular snakeskin-scale pattern. The low-contrast palette gives the design a softened, atmospheric character rather than a sharply graphic one.

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About this fabric

Catalogued as wallpaper, this Phlox colourway is visibly built around overlapping scale shapes with uneven edges and changing tonal density. The ground reads warm cream, while muted taupe-grey areas gather into darker clusters and broken diagonal bands across the surface. Its restrained contrast keeps the serpentine motif distinctive without making the wall feel brightly patterned. The softly mottled appearance gives the design depth as the pale and dark passages shift across the repeat.

How to use it

Use this cream and taupe-grey colourway across a bedroom, dressing room or quiet sitting space, where its softened scale pattern can sit alongside warm timber, aged brass and natural stone. Keep surrounding fabrics tonal to preserve the design’s muted depth.

Pair the softly contrasting cream and taupe-grey scales with warm timber, stone and textural neutrals.

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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

Light Gray

Farrow & Ball · #b0a593

To stand against it

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Farrow & Ball · #5e4348

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