Simon Houlding Upholstery
Cream wallpaper with sunflower-gold lettering, birds, scrolling foliage and fine botanical motifs

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The Beauty of Life Sunflower

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The Beauty of Life Sunflower combines a warm cream ground with abundant sunflower-gold ornament, including curling foliage, birds, flowers and prominent layered lettering. Its light background keeps the dense design luminous while the metallic-looking gold details add depth.

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About this fabric

This wallpaper is filled with fine botanical sprigs, scrolling foliage, perched birds and decorative text spelling out “LIFE” and “THE BEAUTY OF LIFE” in a rich sunflower-gold tone. The cream-and-gold palette reads warm rather than bright, with the darker outlines and concentrated details giving the pattern a richly illustrated character. It has a 68.6 cm usable width and a 52 cm vertical pattern repeat, while the horizontal repeat is listed as 0 cm. Supplied at 150 gsm in a standard 10.05 m length, it is well suited to carrying this continuous, vertically arranged composition across a wall.

How to use it

Use it on a study, reading room or intimate sitting-room wall where the warm sunflower gold can sit alongside aged wood, ochre upholstery and cream-painted joinery. The large lettering and busy botanical border make it especially effective as a feature treatment rather than a quiet background.

Use this warm gold-and-cream wallpaper to bring literary drama and finely detailed botanical ornament to a feature wall or study.

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