The Birdhouse Wallpaper is exactly that – wallpaper decorated with a repeating pattern of vintage style birdhouses.
Each birdhouse has been created with vintage fabrics, newspaper clippings and other shabby chic prints. The pastel shades and the cute little birds make this wallpaper especially suitable for use in a nursery. The wallpaper costs £120 for a roll measuring 6 metres long by45cm wide.
Buy it online from Catkin Collection.
Another retro-influenced wallpaper by Jordi Labanda, this one entitled Bond Girls.
The wallpaper depicts various glamorous ladies dressed in retro chic clothing in silhouette. My knowledge of the Bond films is not the best in the world but I don’t remember a Bond girl with two dachshunds like one of the characters here. But the paper is available in seven or 007 colours as the blurb describes it, continuing the Bond theme. Choose from violet, rose, champagne, chocolate (with pink ladies), black & white , silver or night.
The wallpaper costs £46 per roll from Tangletree Interiors.
Always good for retro interiors, Ferm Living have produced the striking Vertigo Wallpaper.
It is a bold design of black and off-white stripes which allows you to create a 60s backdrop on your walls. Like Ferm Living’s other wallpaper designs, this is printed on WallSmart paper, which makes it easy to hang.
It costs just under £70 per roll from Dennis and McGregor.
The Make-Up Wallpaper by Jordi Labanda features retro-inspired stylised fashion illustrations of glamorous women with 60s style make-up.
It is available in a choice of five colour options: red, aqua, silver, chartreuse or violet, each featuring a mixture of these stylish ladies. As is often the case with these wallpaper designs, you need to use it cleverly and sparingly, but in the right setting it would make quite an impact.
The wallpaper costs £46 per roll from Tangle Tree Interiors, where you can also buy samples for £1 before committing to a full roll.
Bibliophiles should embrace this stacked paperback wallpaper from Anthropologie.
Designed by Tracy Kendall, the paper is hand-screen printed with images of piles of vintage and second hand looking paperbacks, spines placed out for easy browsing. To be honest, this is quite similar to what my house looks like anyway (and I imagine that of most book lovers), but at least with this there's no danger of them toppling over!
Each roll is 46cm with a repeat of 63cm and costs £128.
See it online
Grab a couple of rolls of Oh Sweetie wallpaper by Kate Usher Surfaces and your living room could be transformed into your very own sweet shop.
Well, almost. You get the jars, sweets, scales and prices diigtally printed onto the paper, which you'll then be able to hang in your living room, bedroom, games room or indeed any room that needs a retro twist.
The design is printed onto a on a pearl white base paper to order, costing £150 per 10 metre roll. If you want to order, get in touch with the designer via her website and check out the same site for upcoming design shows, where you'll get the chance to see, touch and feel.
