Wallpaper trends 2025 – the key styles and patterns to cover your walls with this year

These are the most popular wallcovering prints and designs you’ll be loving in 2025

But if anything, 2025 seems to be full of bold wallpaper ideas that are set to only grow in popularity as we get deeper into the year – there’s truly no holding back when it comes to decorating our homes this year. So be ready to have fun as there’s very little space or tolerance for boring or safe wallpaper choices in 2025.

Caroline Woolmer, head of product design at Henderson Design Group, advises how to approach these fresh new home decor trends. ‘Embrace 2025’s wallpaper trends by balancing bold choices with thoughtful styling to create spaces that feel personal and inviting. Use wallpaper to add warmth and depth to minimalist interiors or to introduce character and charm to smaller spaces.’

1. Play around with fun motifs

Speaking of having fun and embracing individuality, this leads us to one of the biggest trends of the year – which is simply to express yourself, your quirks, personality and interests through your home decor, including your wallpaper.

‘As we spend more time in our homes, we have seen a shift in trends that are all about creating interiors that are personal, expressive, and unapologetically you,’ Caroline at Henderson Design Group says.

This links perfectly to the biggest home trends for 2025 from the Pinterest Predicts report called Primary Play – and the trend gave inspiration to Pinterest’s first ever physical product launch, created in collaboration with Poodle & Blonde. And incidentally, it’s a wallpaper!

2. Go for earthy shades

Opting for earthy shades is one of the biggest paint trends of 2025. But it’s also one that makes a crossover to wallpaper. Whether it’s brown in line with Pantone’s colour of the year, Mocha Mousse, or terracotta, the trending colours are both cosy and grounding.

‘In terms of colour, earthy tones will be popular – think terracotta, deep greens and muted brown,’ says Paula Taylor, head stylist and trend specialist at Graham & Brown. ‘Graham & Brown’s wallpaper and colour of the year, Elderton will mix nicely with these.’

Caroline at Henderson Design Group agrees, ‘Rich, dark earthy tones like deep greens and burnt oranges create warmth, drama, and depth. While some earthy tones carry over, they’ve been reimagined with more dramatic, personalised touches to reflect the shift toward expressive, statement-making interiors.’

3. Bring the outside in big time

Nature-inspired motifs never truly go out of style, especially as we’ve been enchanted with biophilic design over the past few years, wanting to bring the outside in more and blur the lines between the outside and our interiors. But what evolves are the ways in which we deliver those botanical themes – and 2025 is about going as big as possible.

‘Nature-inspired prints will dominate, with large-scale florals, forest motifs, and landscape murals bringing a biophilic touch to interiors and fostering a connection to the outdoors. Nature-inspired designs and eco-friendly materials reflect the growing demand for interiors that connect us to the outdoors and support wellness-focused living,’ Caroline at Henderson Design Group.

But when it comes to murals, it’s more about painted and drawn designs as photographic murals fall out of favour in 2025.

4. Look up to the ceiling

Similarly to immersing the entire room in wallpaper, there’s been a trend of wallpapering the ceiling, a part of the room usually somewhat forgotten about and left white. You can either do this as part of drenching the space with wallpaper or specifically highlighting the ceiling by putting a contrasting wallpaper up there, much like Layton Williams has done in his kitchen last year.

‘In 2025, more people will be asking themselves, is it just a ceiling or is it an additional wall space waiting to be transformed?’ says Catherine Jacob, head of design at Hovia. ‘The new year will see the ceiling evolve from an often-overlooked feature to a statement-making canvas. We’re seeing an increase in customers using our murals on their ceilings. It’s an exciting way to transform a room and our customers are always blown away when they see what adding a ceiling mural can do to a space.’