Design Trends 2011 - Trend #7 Coming to a Wall Near You!

Can you believe it? After all those countless hours we have all spent peeling duck borders and fruit wallpaper from the walls of our kitchens and baths, wallpaper is actually making a comeback! In 2010, we saw one wall accents and recessed niches hung with graphic designed wallpaper the latest trend for 2011 is to wallpaper two, three and even four walls in a room. Fewer accent walls and more fully papered rooms are cropping up in homes and magazine spreads as of late, along with a handful of "mini trends" in wallpaper design. While we started to see some of these trends at the end of 2010, experts bet they'll pick up even more steam in the months to come.

Paintable Wallpaper-It's the perfect hybrid between painting a wall and wallpapering it, and for the non-committal decorators among us. Big box stores like Target and Home Depot, carry over thirty designs including Martha Stewart's collection.

Tone-on-Tone & Metallic -If 2010 was the year of large scale patterns, a wide range of colors and quirky, highly individualized designs, then 2011 is definitely dialing it back a bit. Think subtly bold designs, such as the textured, paintable ones mentioned earlier, as well as tone-on-tone patterns and shiny metallic (see Trend #6!!).

Fabric and Wallpaper Combos-This is a trend is popping up in all the interior design magazines issues of the New Year. Interior designer Windsor Smith used Bennison's Roses wallpaper and then covered the home's dining chairs in an identical fabric, in a feature for House Beautiful magazine, above. Interiors magazine's January 2011 issue features the same technique by designers Silvia Oliveira and Daniela Martins who matched window treatments with wallpaper in a bedroom they outfitted in Brazil.

So while the trends of statements walls of 2011 are still holding strong, wallpapering the entire room is making a comeback.  So keep your eyes peeled for the wallpaper that fits your style!