Yes I thought I noted a color change. And I noted the blue tile in the shower seems to be different from the almost green blue in the floor. And it looks like the floor flower is burgundy.

I prefer no contrast between the wall and the trim, but IF you want wallpaper, it needs to be a stripe. A very narrow stripe.

I like what you have now. Maybe just an interesting piece of art on that wall?

I think a wallpaper could be great. I dont like the one chatgpt picked in @jojoco’s image, I think the scaleis way too similar to the scale of the floor tile design.

Annie and Mtn, the blue in the floor matches the shower. I was very obsessive about that when I was choosing them. The ”burgundy” in the floor is brown. Just goes to show how misleading pictures can be! Probably not the best pics but y’all will have to take my word for it. 🤓

I think I have talked myself out of the wallpaper idea.

There is art in the room now; these are older photos. But there isn’t anything here…yet…?

What are the names of the tiles that were used in the shower? Maybe that will help provide everyone with the actual colors better.

Are these the tiles that are on your floor? Ivy Hill Bella Prado?

Your shower tiles look like an aqua color to me in your photos - however, based upon the Ivy Hill tiles above, I assume that they closely match the blue shown in the above photos.

Do I think you could do wallpaper here? Yes, but I am probably in a very small minority of a pretty pattern phobic forum. I know it probably annoys people that I say it, but in my experience it's true.

These are Thibaut, relatively large scale plain stripes or checks

And there's this one at a smaller scale

Pal I wish I had your vision on mixing pattern on pattern when I try I always fail😢

oh good honestly my first thought was redo the shower!!! The blue stripe on the bottom left in Pal’s mockup is terrific. Did i miss the paper in the mudroom?

I like the blue stripe, too. And I'm assuming that if you decide to paper you will have it in hand when your guy comes to do the foyer😉

Mtn, wallpaper is delayed again…partly because of our travel schedule, partly because wallpaper guy was injured.

Redo the shower! We don’t need that kind of attitude, ma‘am.

Dani, yup that is the floor. Everything was done 7 years ago, I don’t have the shower tile name available.

LOL just stood in the shower and still can’t get an accurate pic of the tile color. So I got out the BM paint deck and for anyone who cares, the tile color is Ocean City Blue.

BM likes it with China White, which could work.

Wall color now is Muslin, not Sea Urchin.

I could do the trim color (White Dove) but this room gets a lot of use and I feel like I’d be doing touchup painting all the time. But it’s an option.

This makes the shower tile look gray! Arg.

I don’t think I want beadboard.

I could get some wallpaper samples just to see… I am not sure about stripes, though.

Oh hey it’s me again.

Some papers.

Hard to see the above pattern; it’s called Victorian Star, shows up a bit better in this color.

Am I crazy? I love this: slippers!

Bigger pic:

In another color (which would not work here).

I really don't think it could be anything but a stripe or check because your floor is both floral and geometric,--and trellis, really. Unless you did a random dot or splatter. This is not the right color but something like this.

If your house was fussier or hyper historical-traditional, you could probably do a more elaborate pattern mix, but you would really have to up the layering, and it would have to be something that was throughout the house, which is something completely different than what you've got going. Multi-

patterning is very bossy and is not always that easy to tweak, add to, and subtract from.

Speaking of a check…I’ve got that!

All that you’re saying makes sense to me, Pal. I need to move on from wallpaper and stay with paint.

We have ”stripes” in the window blinds and the radiator, the more I look around the more I realize (duh) I have enough going on in this room.

Well, radiators and miniblinds don't really count as "pattern", and if you start looking at it like that, where do you stop? Everything would have to be accounted for.

I like Jojo's chatgbt result. I'm also in a big yolo phase right now.

I. Am. Crazy.

Was trying to find something similar to Jo’s. This feels like too much.

I kinda like this.

Ticking stripe.

Handdrawn-looking stripe

This one is called hay bales 😬 I think it’s cute.

Stripes w/ lil flowers

I like the color of the hay bales but can’t see the actual shape of the blue blobs.

With the pattern on the floor, I'd stay away from anything geometric or too repetitive in pattern. I think the ticking is too subtle and would just read like a solid. I'd also concentrate more on the blue in the floor and tile. So maybe this wm morris: Mallow in Chalk Duck Egg

Or something more open like this scalamandre

Love the colors of your tiles now that i can see them!

The slippers look vaguely American indian not sure why. Be careful with stars they can read colonial. I vote a stripe in either the dark brown or aqua

The spots in the floor seems to me to be too much with any of the wallpapers that contain spots like the hay bales or the stripes with little flowers.

I have ordered a bunch of samples. Will report back. I suspect I will wimp out and just paint, but we’ll see!

Henri Bendel

I'd try a print on a blue background instead of on beige because the floor's background is beige. You'd be doing the same thing for the wall as you did for the floor--a print on beige-- which might make it harder to get just right.

I also ordered a few samples for one of our beach house bathrooms, haha, because scope creep (across state lines). We have a weird big bathroom that is actually the first room you come across after entering from our main door (which is a side door, not front door). It also has the washer and dryer, and a big antique pine china cabinet that we use for towels. It seems to be calling out for something fun and right now it is just kind of basic with gray tile floors and pink walls. I ordered some wallpaper samples last year and didn’t love any, so I ordered a few more.

I am on a big wallpaper kick, clearly.

I would do something a bit more abstract, but still in a similar floral theme, from the floor. Two color options.

Just from photos, I like the hand drawn looking line because it reminds me of grasscloth (even though those lines would be horizontal). What about a linen weave look that would add some texture but little (literally) pattern?

Just a couple observations about wallpapering a room like this. I am not promoting or discounting wallpaper here, there is not a right answer, but in my opinion the current wall color is neither here nor there, it "goes with" the room because paint colors like that "go with" practically anything, but could be a lot better. (imo)

If you are going to do wallpaper, it should go an all walls. In my opinion people think that One wall of wall paper is "less than" a whole room of wallpaper. But every wall in wallpaper is one finish on the walls. An accent wall of wallpaper is two finishes on the walls. It's "more" not less.

If you are going to do wallpaper, it needs to look like something significantly different than paint, because you are thinking that plain paint just isn't enough. (Again, this is a matter of opinion). But if plain paint isn't enough, then a really subtle or just textured wallpaper won't be enough of a visual either. There are good reasons for doing plain wallcoverings, but I am not sure this room presents a reason for plain paper, since a different paint color would do the same thing, essentially. A good reason to do a plain paper here would be that you love the plain walls but want something more durable.

If you are going to do a pattern, in my opinion, it should be one that holds its own with the floor it shouldn't completely subordinate itself to the floor. There are reasons to do that, but again I don't thing the original feeling that you want something "more" here will be satisfied by a subservient paper, again, if that's the answer, so is paint.

If I were going with paint here, I would probably color drench walls and trim in a blue-aqua that was a close sibling to the wall tile and lattice color in the floor.

That's funny, Pal, after a couple other comments about color drenching here -- which I have wanted to try somewhere but was nervous about it -- I am thinking about that and in fact ordered a bunch of pale blue samples (and some neutrals) just last night.

This is a little bright because I pulled from the wall tile, but when I pull from the floor tile it just comes out gray. But with paint I would almost match the aqua-blue, whatever it is:

I have always been a fan of color drenching, but it's much more difficult to keep track of trim colors and in an open plan sometimes it's not really possible because of transitions between spaces.

The colors I ordered are either a "match" to the shower tile or a shade lighter...I am a bit of a weenie when it comes to saturated colors but I have to admit that visual looks pretty good to me. The rooms upstairs in this house (where this bath is) are quite a mix of colors and I don't really care too much about coordinating on a second floor. Other rooms are a darkish green-gray, pink, muslin again, and a blue-green-gray. Hallway is Healing Aloe. I looked at Quiet Moments in here but it's too gray. In any case, this bath is at the end of its own lil' hallway so it isn't even visible from other rooms.

Have you considered a copper patina color scheme. . .

Ohh that would be far too daring for me!

Had only papering one wall been mentioned? If so, I did not see and would not agree with doing.

I am a fan of color drenching (did it in the majority of the rooms in our last house), but not sure about Pal's example (even knowing it's not exact color). For me, it takes away from the flooring in a big way.

No, I didn’t mention doing just one wall, and I assume Pal was speaking generally. Uhh… I do have only one wall papered in our bedroom, so far the only wallpaper in this house!

I mentioned it in general, but I was not sure because a circle indicated "Here" as if that's where you thought you needed it, and a lot of people seem to like a wall of wallpaper. I do too, under the right circumstances.

What about a paper with a small, watery geometric or stripe to complement the handmade tiles? You want something a little rustic and simple, maybe with a hand-painted look. Florals and bold prints don't work for me.

https://www.yorkwallcoverings.com/ywd-e65-petite-pergola-wallpaper-blue/MN1942

I love Jennifer Hogans copper patina look.

Pal, people had mentioned hanging art — I was just saying that wall didn’t have any.

I am liking wallpaper for your bathroom more and more, the more I play with it. Of course, I love the monkeys in the Scalamandre Annie posted above. But here is a light and dark foresty feel too!

Those are cool!

Yes I conflated a later photo with a circle on it with the original question.

A factor in the wallpaper choice will be if you are fully integrating the floor as a pattern in the choice, or if you are treating the floor like an oriental rug, and picking a paper that goes with the color but not paying so much attention to the pattern. The Victorians would have in some cases completely ignored the floor pattern as a pattern in the same way that wallpaper or fabric is.

The orange wall color basically ignores the colors in the tile as needing to be a part of the wall color, and it's just something completely different that goes with the blue-aqua, which is sort of the same thing.

I think the size of the room matters. Keep in mind that this is a bathroom, not a parlor. The shower tile also creates a pattern.

I also think that the intricate papers that are popular right now for powder rooms wouldn't work as well in a bathroom.

I think a muted color is best if you want paint. Would love to see a mock up of the hay bales in the room bc I don’t have a good sense of the scale of that pattern. If it’s small I think it would be good. Or a small polkadot….

I love a ticking or stripe in here. Don't just do one wall. Go for it all. One wall looks kind of accidental. With the punch of your tile in the shower and the pattern on your floor, you need to be commital and go big, otherwise just do a neutral paint.

Kendrah, at no time did I consider only doing one wall.

Samples have been ordered. I feel like the odds of me actually going for wallpaper here are pretty slim at this point unless I really fall in love with one of the samples…which is why I also have paint samples on the way!

Thanks for all the input. It really is helpful. I won’t be home for the next week but will report back when I get back and see my samples.