Peel-and-Stick Wallpaper That Can Handle a Real Accent Wall

An accent wall is the quickest way to give a room a point of view, and peel-and-stick paper makes it possible without paste, a decorator, or a long commitment. One wall behind the bed or the sofa is enough to change the whole room.

Pattern is the fun part. Large graphics like chevrons work from a distance, small florals and stripes are for rooms you sit close in, and textures such as grasscloth, brick, and wood planks add warmth without adding a motif. If your wall is not perfectly smooth, look at the thicker papers made for lightly textured walls.

Before ordering, measure the wall and round up, since matching the pattern at the seams uses extra paper. The finish of the paint underneath matters as well.

Tempaper Mist Zee Designer Removable Peel and Stick Wallpaper

Big chevrons in soft grey and cream make a wall that is graphic without being loud. The zigzag shows from across the room, so one wall of it is enough, behind a bed or at the end of a hallway. Tempaper makes the paper in the USA, and this pattern has the confident scale of a designer wallcovering. Keep the furniture in front of it plain, a white headboard or a simple console.

LACHEERY Extra Thick Peel and Stick Wallpaper for Textured Walls

Not every wall wants a pattern. This thick, linen-textured paper in a warm greige gives a room the look of fabric-covered walls, quiet and expensive. Its texture catches the side light from a window, which flat paint never does. Use it in a bedroom or a study, or behind open shelves, where it makes a backdrop for books and ceramics.

Livelynine Thick Peel and Stick Wallpaper Liner for Textured Walls

Here the color is up to you. Livelynine’s liner goes up white, with a woven, burlap-like texture, and then takes whatever paint you choose, so the wall ends up with the depth of plaster or grasscloth in exactly your shade. Try it in a deep green or a chalky terracotta for a dining room. Painted a pale color, it gives a hallway texture without pattern.

RoomMates Shatter Geometric Peel and Stick Wallpaper (White/Gold)

Gold lines cross a cream ground like cracked glass or a spider’s web, and the effect is glamorous, a little Art Deco. A powder room is the classic place for a pattern like this, where a small dose goes a long way, and so is the wall behind a bar cart. Brass fittings and a round mirror are its natural partners.

NuWallpaper by WallPops Cream Vinyl Grassweave Peel & Stick Wallpaper

Grasscloth is the wallcovering decorators love for the way it warms a room, and this is the peel-and-stick version of the look, a print of fine horizontal weave in cream. From across the room the wall appears textured and softly striped. It makes a calm backdrop for art, and it would suit a living room, an entry, or a bedroom where you want warmth without color.

HAOKHOME Boho Botanical Leaf Peel and Stick Wallpaper

Eucalyptus branches drift across a white ground in watercolor greens and blues, loose and airy. Because so much of the paper is white, it brightens a room, and the soft greens are easy to pick up in bedding or towels. A nursery, a guest bedroom, or a bathroom would suit it, and so would the back of a glass-fronted cabinet.

Lativo Silk Pink Embossed Floral Peel and Stick Wallpaper

Pink is a flattering color for a wall, and the Lativo paper adds sprigs of tiny roses pressed into the surface, so the pattern shows as much by light as by color. The effect is sweet and old-fashioned, like the lining of a jewelry box. Try it in a small bedroom or a dressing corner, with white painted furniture and a gilt mirror.

HAOKHOME Coastal Indigo Blue and White Striped Peel and Stick Wallpaper

Blue watercolor stripes, slightly wobbly as if painted by hand, give a wall the freshness of a beach house. Stripes run horizontally here, which helps a narrow room look wider. Hang it in a bathroom, a child’s room, or a laundry room, anywhere that could use cheering up, and keep the rest white with a few natural textures, a jute rug or a rattan mirror.

PeonyQueen Grey and White 3D Brick Peel and Stick Wallpaper

An exposed brick wall is something most homes don’t have and plenty of people want. PeonyQueen’s paper prints one in whitewashed greys, with chipped paint and the odd darker brick, convincing behind a sofa or a desk. Its industrial look goes with black metal, leather, and wood, and it can make a new apartment feel as if it has some history.

HAOKHOME Shiplap Wood Plank Peel and Stick Wallpaper

Whitewashed planks, with knots and grain showing through, bring a farmhouse or coastal look to a plain wall. Shiplap is usually a carpentry project, and this gets the look with paper. Use it behind a bed in place of a headboard, or in a mudroom, and add black hooks and a wooden bench.

Coverage and Removal

A roll’s listed coverage is the flat area it covers, and pattern matching, corners, and outlets all eat into that number, so order an extra roll of a patterned print. Removable generally means removable from a smooth, painted wall in good condition, so read each product’s own instructions before you start, especially in a rental.