I would paint, although, I do think, the right wallpaper could look nice too.

William Morris wallpaper

Let all your beautiful wood have it's day. I would repaint a warm white the faux brown walls and call it good.

Are you asking about the wall in the staircase that then goes above the glass paneled door? This wall needs to connect and look good with both the living room and the upstairs hallway. What will the hallway look like? There is an odd column to the right of the glass door and then we see a bit of brown wall to the right of that - are these both getting a green shade too?

Thanks all -- we are doing the William Morris paper in the adjacent dining room, and then choosing some coordinating shades of green for the walls in the living room that extend all the way to the right of that glass door. The question is where to "break". I see what you mean, Kendrah, about having to think through the hallway upstairs. I wonder about a cream color that would pair well with the adjacent green when you see it downstairs? Maybe that works for the ceiling of the living room/dining room as well? I"m not a fan of white next to the woodwork - I just find it to jarring......

You can probably stop paint or wallpaper at the corner at the top of the stairs. At one time a house like this would have been primarily papered with more or less coordinating paper, even on the ceilings--they made plain papers. (which usually still had a subtle pattern) for ceilings. I don't know what Morris pattern you are using in the dining room, but a paper like Morris Standen (a smaller scale of Willow) would frequently have been used as a "plain" adjacent to a more exuberant pattern like Strawberry Thief.

They didn't really have the same rules about how adjacent rooms related to each other and the general lack of pattern that we have now, so you don't necessarily need to strictly adhere to them in your house.

I like the idea of finding a cream for the ceilings in living room and dining room that you then carry up the stairwall. Potentially is could go in the upstairs hallway and ceilings. It would be a nice thread that carries throughout.

I would just hug them, it’s gorgeous.