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Most people think of wallpaper as a bedroom or living room decision. They choose one room, commit, and leave the rest of the house alone. After more than fifty years at Mahone's, we've noticed a consistent pattern: the rooms that produce the most dramatic transformations are almost never the obvious ones. Here are seven of them, and why each one works. 1. The Dining Room The dining room is one of the most wallpaper-friendly rooms in the house and one of the most overlooked. Most people assume it requires a formal, traditional aesthetic. That assumption leaves a lot of potential untouched. Dining rooms are used in concentrated bursts, dinner parties, holidays, Sunday evenings. The pattern gets noticed without ever becoming something you live inside all day. That makes it the right context for a bold, considered choice: a deep botanical, a rich grasscloth, a dramatic damask that would feel like too much in a room you occupy for eight hours. Grasscloth wallpaper is the most-reque...

  Powder Room Wallpaper: How to Make a Small Space Feel Extraordinary The powder room is the most underestimated room in the house. It's small, it gets overlooked in renovation budgets, and most people paint it the same shade they use in the hallway. That's exactly why a beautifully wallpapered powder room stops guests in their tracks, because nobody expected it. Here's what over fifty years of selling wallpaper has taught us: the homeowners who go bold in their powder rooms never regret it. The ones who play it safe usually wish they hadn't. This room is a genuine permission slip, and the design logic behind that is more concrete than it might seem. Why the Powder Room Is the Best Room in Your House to Wallpaper The powder room is the easiest room to wallpaper, full stop. No shower means no daily steam cycle, which eliminates the moisture anxiety that comes with wallpapering a full bathroom. You can use nearly any substrate, including real grasscloth, delicate paper-ba...

  Is Wallpaper a Good Idea for Bathrooms? Yes, wallpaper is a good idea for bathrooms, but the right answer depends on which bathroom you're talking about, and which wallpaper you're considering. Get those two answers right and wallpaper is one of the most rewarding things you can do to a bathroom. Get them wrong and you'll be peeling it off within a year. We've been selling wallpaper at Mahone's since 1969, and the bathroom question comes up more than almost any other. The hesitation is understandable- water, steam, humidity, tile grout. But the fear usually traces back to a single experience: a grandparent's bathroom where the paper bubbled and peeled above the tub. That paper was almost certainly a wood-pulp, paper-backed product installed in a room with no ventilation fan. The world of wallpaper has changed significantly since then, and so has our understanding of which rooms need which substrates. Here's the honest version. Can You Actually Put Wallpape...