Meadow Wallpaper

What Meadow Wallpaper Is

Meadow wallpaper is a wall mural printed with wild grasses and field flowers. Poppies, daisies, cornflowers and seed heads, drawn as they grow. Loose, tall and a little untidy.

Giffywalls prints every mural to the exact size of your wall. We print these field scenes all spring and summer, and they are the ones buyers send us photos of afterward. Usually with a bed or a dining table in front.

Why a Meadow Reads Differently

A normal floral repeats. A meadow does not. The stems rise from a base line and thin out toward the top of the wall.

That gives you two things. The bottom of the wall holds the detail, so furniture in front of it still leaves plenty on show. The top stays open, which lifts a low ceiling. It is one of the few big prints that suits a small room.

How the Colors Behave

Most designs sit in soft greens with dots of white, pink, red or gold. Light changes them a lot. A north-facing room cools the green and the wall reads calm and misty. A south-facing room warms it and the flowers pop. Under lamps at night the greens deepen and the whole field settles down. If a room is dark, pick a design on a cream ground rather than a gray one.

Where It Works Best

Bedrooms

Grasses behind a bed read soft rather than busy. The bed covers the base of the stems, leaving flowers and seed heads above it. That is exactly how these murals are drawn to work.

Living and Dining Rooms

A field scene behind a table brings the outside in. Keep the table plain and the chairs simple. Cane, linen and pale wood all sit well with it. Our cottagecore wallpaper range shares the same easy mood.

Halls and Stairways

Tall stems suit tall walls. A stairway lets the grasses run the full height, which no other room really allows. It turns a dead space into the best wall in the house.

Nurseries

Soft, quiet and gentle on the eye. A meadow grows up better than a cartoon does, so the room lasts longer before it needs redoing.

Getting the Height Right

This is the one thing to get right. The base line of the grasses should sit low, just above the skirting. Too high and the field floats. If a bed head or a sofa back will cover the bottom third, tell us. We drop the crop so the flowers land above the furniture rather than behind it.

Styles You Will Find Here

Meadow covers a lot of ground. There are soft watercolor fields with blurred edges. There are fine ink drawings in one color. There are bold poppy scenes in red and black. And there are dry, golden late-summer grasses with barely a flower in sight. Want quiet? Take a single-color line drawing. Want life? Take a full color field in bloom.

Colors to Build Around

Cream and warm white keep it fresh. Oatmeal and clay warm it up. Sage or olive on the other walls pulls the green through the room. Black frames sharpen a soft field and stop it feeling twee. Terracotta pots and dried stems finish the look. Avoid strong blue nearby. It fights the greens and makes the field look flat.

Sizing and Fitting

Measure the wall. Send us the width and the height. We scale the field so the stems stay in proportion and nothing gets stretched. Tell us where the bed or the table goes and we set the base line to suit. Renting? Choose peel and stick for a removable wallpaper finish that lifts off without taking paint. Paste-the-wall suits a room that is staying as it is. There is more to browse in our wider botanical wallpaper range. Shipping is free on every order.