Adding wall texture to your interior design is the perfect way to elevate your room. For many designers and homeowners, however, this can be a daunting idea to try for the first time. In this article, we’ll explore ways you can incorporate texture into your room and how to apply different textural options. We’ll also highlight some of the new wallpaper available in our newly-launched collection: The Texture Edition.

Texture design for the living room

The living room is a special, central space in the home, and it’s the perfect room to treat as the heart of your interior design choices. There are many ways to bring texture into this space, from a creative use of textiles across upholstery, varied and dynamic accessories like pillows or glassware, and additionally through wall texture design. 

When pulling together design ideas for the living room space, make sure to focus on complementary features that will emphasize the beauty of the overall room, or bring attention to a particular furniture piece or artwork. If you are creating a living room textured wall, you may want to consider using grasscloth which can add subtle or impactful texture.

Other materials such as leather or velvet can also establish a more dynamic modern wall texture design. If you’re looking for inspiration for wall texture design for your living room, we can suggest these grasscloth wallpapers for wall texture ideas: Jute grasscloths can add a bold, textural look, such as the exquisitely chic black Raven jute. For a smoother texture that incorporates a soft chevron pattern, we can suggest our Japanese Paperweave, Sandbar or Horizon. If you’re looking to make a bold statement with a chunky textural pattern with a visual depth, our Paperweave Stout might be the perfect choice.

 

Textured wall ideas for the bedroom

You may want to experiment with darker, bolder styles in your living room wall texture design, whereas when it comes to your bedroom, you may be searching for a more serene interior wall texture design. Within the bedroom, focus on the textural opportunities at play between the bedding, headboard or curtains, and use those three elements to tell a visual story. Unifying the room’s textural elements across the space can help you elevate each piece. Use natural light to accentuate a calming, breezy feel during the day, and soft, low lighting for a coziness at night.

For some distinct wall texture ideas you may want to use in the bedroom, consider:

1. Gentle textile wallpapers like our whisper- blue linen Drift, or the more neutral Birch. 
2. Bring in the warmth to highlight sunrise and sunset with the chunky but mellow Jute Terracotta. 
3. For a subtle yet textured neutral, our Paperweave Marzipan can add just the right amount of visual interest while keeping the space open and bright. 

 

Material considerations for your wall texture design choice

When considering wall texture ideas for any room, don’t overlook the opportunities that grasscloth can provide. As a natural product with beautiful and subtle variation, there are different types that can suit various design tastes to provide a wall texture style that fits your vision. Some categories of our Grasscloth collection you may want to consider are:

Paperweave: These are softer in texture and have both a vertical and horizontal wall texture design within their weave (both a warp and weft). With various colorways and weave appearances, there are numerous options for a simple wall texture design that reduce the traditional seam look that you get with installed grasscloth.

Jute: These chunkier, hand-knotted grasscloths offer that traditional grasscloth wall texture design appearance, with beautifully pronounced seams between panels. The naturally dyed colorways vary from a creamy neutral like Puka, a breezy beach-blue like Saybrook, or a metallic-rubbed sultry Rex. 

Linen: As a textile, linen offers a simple wall texture design that can serve as a soft backdrop to any room. Our newest linens are one of our smoothest and most subtle wallcovering options which bring that visual depth without making a big statement, while also hiding the seams between panels nicely.

Sisal: This is the most popular type of grasscloth in our collection, and can easily be used to create a soft and subtle interior design. The weaving of the fibers is fine, and the texture of the material absorbs natural dyes evenly to create a fairly consistent-colored surface. 

How do I choose a wall texture?

So much of the beauty of wall texture design is discovered when the texture interacts with light and the other materials in a room. If you’re considering using grasscloth wallpaper in your interior design, we recommend ordering samples so that you can hang them on the wall and see how they interact with the space. Every textured wall decor idea comes to life in a different way once it’s in the room, so it’s best to sample it in action.

 

What is the easiest texture to use?

As we’ve discussed, there are many different wall texture ideas that can elevate the interior design in your space. If you aren’t looking to bring a bold feel into the room, there are many grasscloth options that fit a more subtle style, such as Paperweave Salt or Stellar, or Sisal Tonic and Twilight. These neutrals can effectively create an elevated atmosphere that matches many interior design choices, and in that way they can be the easiest wall textures to design into your space.

 

Explore our new collection: The Texture Edition

At twenty2 we’ve launched twelve new SKUs to add to our existing collection of grasscloth wallpaper. Bringing in a fresh set of textures and patterns, the new collection offers Linen wallpapers, as well as Jutes and Paperweaves to truly offer a variety across the spectrum of bold to subtle. If you’re looking to add texture to your room, explore our new set of wallpaper options.