The Best Wallpaper for a Bedroom: A Simple Buyer's Guide
What Makes a Wallpaper Right for a Bedroom
Not every wallpaper belongs in a bedroom. The best ones share a few qualities: they feel calm to live with, they flatter soft, low light, and they're made from materials you're happy to sleep beside night after night. Get those right and a bedroom wallpaper becomes something you love for years. Here's what to look for when you're choosing.
At Claret & Key, every design is drawn in-house and printed to order in your chosen colour way, so you can choose a look you love and know it's made especially for you in our Cheshire studio.
Choose a design you'll want to wake up to
A bedroom is for rest, so the best designs tend to be calming rather than busy. Soft florals, botanicals and meadows bring gentle, nature-led serenity. Fine stripes and subtle damasks feel considered and quiet. And if you love drama, a deep, moody design turns a bedroom into a cocooning retreat rather than an energising one. The key is choosing something that soothes rather than stimulates.
Think about the finish
The finish matters as much as the design. Our Traditional paper (150gsm, super-matte) is the classic bedroom choice — refined, with no distracting sheen. Heavy-Grade (300gsm) adds a subtle, tactile texture. And Removable peel-and-stick (180gsm) is ideal for renters or anyone who likes to restyle, giving you the same design with none of the commitment. A super-matte finish is especially flattering in a bedroom, where soft lighting is kindest to a calm, non-reflective surface.
Look for materials you can sleep beside
A bedroom is a room you breathe in for eight hours a night, so materials count. All our wallpaper is FSC-approved, PVC-free and VOC-free, which means it's free from the volatile compounds that can affect air quality — safe and sound for the room you sleep in, and for nurseries and children's rooms too.
Make it truly yours
The best bedroom wallpaper is the one that's right for you — your design, your colour, your room. Because we print to order, nothing is off the shelf: you choose the shade to suit your light and your scheme, and it's made especially for you.
Order a sample and live with it in your bedroom for a few days, by day and by lamplight, before you decide.
Frequently Asked Questions About Choosing Bedroom Wallpaper
What is the best wallpaper for a bedroom?
The best bedroom wallpaper is calming rather than busy, flattering in soft light, and made from safe materials. Soft florals, botanicals, meadows, fine stripes and subtle damasks all suit a bedroom, as do deep, cocooning designs for a more dramatic retreat.
What finish of wallpaper is best for a bedroom?
A super-matte finish is especially flattering in a bedroom, where soft lighting is kindest to a calm, non-reflective surface. Our Traditional paper is the classic choice; Heavy-Grade adds subtle texture; and Removable peel-and-stick suits renters.
Is wallpaper safe to use in a bedroom?
Yes — our wallpaper is FSC-approved, PVC-free and VOC-free, so it's free from the volatile compounds that can affect air quality. That makes it safe and sound for the room you sleep in, and for nurseries too.
Can I get the wallpaper made in my own colour?
Yes — every design is printed to order in your chosen colour way, so you can match it to your light and your scheme, made especially for you rather than picked from a fixed range.
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.
