Plain & Solid Blue Wallpaper: A Calm, Colourful Backdrop - Made in Your Shade
The Quiet Confidence of a Plain
Sometimes a room doesn't want a pattern — it wants colour, pure and simple. A plain, solid blue brings a wall a wash of calm, considered colour that's softer than a flat white and more characterful than paint. It's the easy-going choice: a serene backdrop for a bedroom, a gentle companion to a bolder patterned wall, or a whole room wrapped in one restful shade. And printed to order, a plain blue is never quite as plain as it sounds — it's your exact blue, chosen to suit your room.
At Claret & Key, every plain colour is printed to order in the shade you want, from the softest sky to a deep, inky blue. Made especially for you in our Cheshire studio.
Why choose a plain blue
A solid colour has a quiet confidence. It lets your furniture, art and textiles do the talking, and gives a room a calm, cohesive feel. Blue is the perfect colour for it — soothing, versatile and endlessly liveable. A plain blue works beautifully across a whole room, and it's the ideal partner for pattern: pair a plain blue with one of our florals or stripes and let the two play off each other for a collected, layered look.
Finding your blue
Because we print to order, the shade is entirely yours. A soft powder or grey-blue feels gentle and airy. A classic mid-blue is fresh and calming. And a deep navy or inky blue brings a cocooning, sophisticated depth. Whatever you choose, it's printed in precisely that tone, so the colour is never a compromise.
Where a plain blue works
Plain blue suits rooms you want to feel calm and gently colourful. It's serene in a bedroom, fresh in a kitchen or bathroom-adjacent space, and smart in a study or hallway. It also makes a lovely companion wall in a living room, tying a scheme together and giving a patterned wall room to breathe.
Choose your finish
Every colour comes in three finishes: Traditional (150gsm, super-matte), Heavy-Grade (300gsm) for busy walls, and Removable peel-and-stick (180gsm) for renters and easy change. All are printed to order on FSC-approved, PVC- and VOC-free paper.
Solid colour shows the light beautifully and shifts from morning to evening, so order a sample and see your blue in the room first.
Frequently Asked Questions About Plain & Solid Blue Wallpaper
Why choose plain wallpaper over paint?
A plain wallpaper has a depth and a softness a flat paint often lacks, and printed to order it comes in your exact shade. It's a lovely, considered way to bring colour to a room, and it pairs beautifully with a patterned feature wall.
What shade of plain blue should I choose?
Soft powder or grey-blues feel gentle and airy, a classic mid-blue is fresh and calming, and a deep navy or inky blue feels cocooning and sophisticated. Because we print to order, you choose the precise tone.
Can I use a plain blue with a patterned wallpaper?
Absolutely — a plain blue is the ideal companion to pattern. Pair it with one of our florals or stripes and let the two play off each other for a collected, layered look, giving the patterned wall room to breathe.
Can I get plain blue wallpaper in a custom shade?
Yes — every plain colour is printed to order in the exact shade you want, from the softest sky to a deep, inky blue, made especially for you.
I love how everything turned out and the price point was great. It was a bit challenging to piece together. Being from the USA, it was kind of a challenge to convert all the measurements to figure out how many rolls I needed and then where to cut the rolls to line up the images based on the design repetition. Luckily, I had plenty of wallpaper to work with on the roll.
Absolutely beautiful design and texture. Got the heavy duty wallpaper and put it up without any previous wallpaper experience and it went up very easily and beautifully. Definitely recommend.
Extremely helpful and supportive when I needed advice on measurements, with fast delivery too. The quality of the wallpaper is excellent, and I’m really pleased with the overall service. Highly recommended!
Gorgeous wallpaper, but the measuring option on the website left us short by 1 roll. Had to order another one but when it came the colour match was perfect. Thankfully I wasn’t paying for a decorator, otherwise would have been disappointed in having to pay for them to return. Otherwise great quality wallpaper and design compared to other similar products available.
First purchase from claret and key and truly impressed. Beautiful quality wallpaper. Pretty yet not too fussy. Easy to hang, cut and match. Would work in any room
Good tracking and delivery service too.
Definitely recommend and would reuse for future projects.
Everything went really good. Apart from the quality of the wallpaper which is fantastic, the staff were exemplary in their communications, friendliness and professionalism. They really did go the extra mile to help me.
A great experience all round.
Thank you.
Patrick
Lovely pattern and paper quality.
However, I wish that I had paid more attention to the roll width measurement.
For some strange reason your paper is narrower than a standard roll. This caused me a great deal of problems when papering my lobby, a small area but that made it more difficult because I was left with a narrow space to fill on 3 walls with a very long drop.
Although I love the paper I probably wouldn't use it again just for this reason.
Why you would produce paper not of a standard width is for you to know and me to wonder but it has made my small project very difficult.
Used this paper to make a dark study cosier. Absolutely loved the colour - the background is a perfect match to our existing panelling painted in Farrow and Ball Old White. First time using paste the wall and it was a revelation so easy and much less mess. Quality of the paper is great but noted the rolls are slightly narrower than most wallpapers. Loved the pattern match which meant little waste what we had left we used to recover some old box files which was easy. I thoroughly recommend.
Great quality wallpaper! The print is beautiful, the wallpaper is thick, and fairly easy to install. Our small area took about an hour and a half because we had a lot of of awkward cuts.
Will definitely be using this brand again!
The paper was just hung and we are thrilled.
The quality of the paper, ease of working with it, (per the paper hangers), your customer service, all were exceptional. We will be ordering again. Thank you!!
Fabulous wallpaper and excellent customer service. This Bronte wallpaper has given my kitchen a new lease of life. Will definitely buy from here again.
