Simon Houlding Upholstery
Dark chestnut wallpaper with fine horizontal lines and stepped rectangular blocks

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Mark Alexander

Root Chestnut

Collage Ii Wallpaper

Root Chestnut has a deep chestnut-brown ground crossed by tightly drawn horizontal lines, with stepped rectangular sections creating a quiet architectural rhythm. In the room setting, its dark depth contrasts clearly with the pale sofa and softly coloured rug.

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About this wallpaper

Catalogued as wallpaper, this colourway presents a layered geometric composition of narrow horizontal bands and irregular rectangular blocks. The chestnut tone reads warm and near-charcoal in the shadowed areas, while lighter brown lines catch the light across the surface. Its restrained tonal contrast gives the pattern depth without introducing bright colour, making the wall feel textured and structured rather than decorative or busy.

How to use it

Use Root Chestnut across a feature wall or full room to bring warmth and graphic structure to a contemporary scheme. Pair its dark brown linear pattern with ivory upholstery, blackened timber and softly mottled neutrals, as shown here.

Use this deep chestnut design to create a warm, architectural backdrop behind pale upholstery and dark timber.

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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 Root Chestnut 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

Dark Lead Colour

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To stand against it

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