London Wallpaper

What London Wallpaper Is

London wallpaper is a wall mural printed with the city's skyline, streets and landmarks. It puts a view on a wall that has none. Tower Bridge, red buses, black cabs, rooftops at dusk. The city does the work.

Giffywalls prints every mural to the exact size of your wall. We print city scenes all year, and this one travels further than most. It goes to homes far from the Thames, hung by people who lived there once.

Black and White or Color?

This is the first choice to make. It changes the whole room.

Black and white reads graphic and calm. The buildings turn into shapes, so the wall sits back and behaves like art. It suits a home office or a smart living room. Color does the opposite. A warm sunset over the river or a wet street at night brings mood and pulls the eye. Pick color when the wall is the point of the room.

Where a City Mural Works

Living Rooms

A wide skyline behind the sofa gives a flat room depth. It works like a window. Keep the furniture low so the horizon stays clear. Leather, dark wood and brass all suit the theme.

Home Offices

A rooftop view behind a desk reads sharp on calls. Choose a quieter gray scene so it does not fight your screen. This is the most common use we see for city murals.

Halls and Stairways

Long walls suit long views. A street scene running up a stairway pulls you along it. There is no furniture in the way, so the whole image shows.

Teen Rooms

Older kids love a city wall. It grows up better than a cartoon. A skyline at night, a busy street scene or a brick and graffiti wall all work.

Bedrooms

A city can still be calm. Choose a soft gray dawn view or an ink drawing rather than a night shot. Put it behind the bed, not facing it. You want the wall to settle the room, not light it up.

Scale and Where the Horizon Sits

Get this right and the room changes. Aim to have the skyline sit near eye level when you are seated. Too high and it feels like you are in a plane. Too low and the sky swallows the wall. Send us your measurements and we set the crop for you.

Styles You Will Find Here

London is not one look. There are ink line drawings of the skyline, vintage travel poster scenes, moody night shots, watercolor washes and full photographic panoramas. Some sit close to our city wallpaper range as a whole. Others belong with vintage murals, with faded paper tones and old type.

Colors to Build Around

Gray, cream and warm white keep a mono scene clean. Deep red picks up a bus or a phone box. Navy and forest green suit a club-like room with leather and dark wood. Brass and amber lamps warm up a night scene. Keep the rest of the room simple. A busy city print plus busy furniture is too much.

Does It Date?

Skylines change, and that puts some people off. In practice the landmarks people pick have stood for a century or more. The bridges, the river and the older rooftops do not move. If you want a wall that will not age, skip the newest towers and choose a view from the water.

Sizing and Fitting

Measure the wall. Send us the width and the height. We scale the image so nothing you care about lands in a corner. Tell us if a bookcase or a door will cover part of it and we shift the crop. Renting? Pick peel and stick for a removable wallpaper finish that lifts off clean. Paste-the-wall suits a room that is staying put. Shipping is free on every order.