Muted taupe wallpaper with circular sporting scenes, boats, rackets and horses

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Mulberry Home

Sporting Life Antique

Sporting Life Antique layers softly faded sporting illustrations inside overlapping circular frames. Its warm taupe ground is balanced by chalky sage, stone, dusty blush and muted blue-green details.

muted taupe sage check large smart wallpaper

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See this fabric on Mulberry Home's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

The large-scale composition includes polo riders, sailing boats, cricket bats, tennis rackets, skittles and other sporting vignettes, each contained within a painted-looking roundel. Antique taupe, mushroom, olive-sage and washed blush tones give the scene a timeworn, quietly collected character rather than a bright or high-contrast effect. This wallpaper is made from 100% Non Woven and measures 70 cm (27.5") wide, with a 50 cm (19.64") vertical pattern repeat. It is spongeable for practical day-to-day care.

How to use it

Pair this muted taupe and sage colourway with warm timber, aged leather and linen upholstery to echo its relaxed sporting-club mood. In a smaller room, let the repeated medallions provide the main decorative focus against simple, low-colour furnishings.

Use this softly weathered taupe colourway to bring a collected sporting-gallery feel to a study, boot room or sitting room.

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Specification

Composition: 100% Non Woven
Width: 70 cm (27.5")
Vertical repeat: 50 cm (19.64")
Aftercare: Spongeable

Specification as published by Mulberry Home. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Made up by us

Every metre we order is cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage. Reupholstery, bespoke pieces, curtains, blinds and headboards.

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Pairs well with

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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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