7 Reasons to Fall for Wallpaper

1. Dramatic Damasks
The new damasks are at once densely packed and larger-than-life. What keeps them livable is their urbane color palette for today's more streamlined decor.

2. Paisley Power
As damasks have become de rigueur so have their next of kin -- paisley. Even more fetching is the marriage of paisleys and elaborate damasks in a single design.

3. Poetry of Trees
As our thoughts turn to fall foliage, the trees that have long inspired wallpaper designers hold even greater allure. Leaves become an exuberant toss as branches stretch into stripes. The stark beauty
of bare trees, trees in silhouette, and even a stack of logs lend a contemplative air to designs.

4. Fine Plumes
The fashion flock has fallen hard for feathers this season, but a little goes a long way. Just the opposite is true in wallpaper, where birds
of a feather flock together.

5. Stripes of Every Kind
Stripes are classic, but wallpaper designers love to reinvent them -- toying with scale, layering lines, and dallying with details that are inconspicuous from afar yet command attention up-close. Daring designers cross on the solid line, installing stripes horizontally to open up a room.

6. A Warming Trend
Like a ray of sunlight, yellow bursts forth from an otherwise neutral palette this season. And why not? It shoots a room full of adrenaline, and effortlessly shifts from retro modern to traditional.

7. Gorgeous Grays
Gray painted walls can be somber, cold, even dismal; but in a wallcovering, this shimmering shade is the height of chic, especially when accented with pearlized metallics.