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The season of new beginnings is in the air – it’s officially spring!
We’ve put together our top picks of Robin Sprong spring-inspired wallpaper designs, to visualize the change of season.
“The foundation for Uta’s work centers around floral motifs, colour, and nature. For many years, Uta has collected books featuring antique illustrations, drawings of historical pharmacy plants, lush tropical vegetation, and roses, specifically.”
Hummingbirds and Tropical Flowers
In Spring, hummingbirds start to visit flowering plants and nectar feeders. Many people believe that Hummingbirds symbolize joy, healing, and good luck.
Vintage Sepia Bird and Flower Jungle
The perfect symbol of spring, with bright flowers in bloom. The vibrant bright yellow background represents the colour of “happiness, and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and spring.”
Colorful Birds and Redouté Flowers
Redouté was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies, and other flowers (Arts & Culture).
“Este’s works are inspired by themes such as travel, nature, dreams, seasons, and sentiments. The layering of colours within her designs, including simplified plant forms & her trademark floral depictions, ensure freshness and vibrant energy throughout her work.”
Cosmos
Cosmos flowers are the best know for attracting birds, bees, and butterflies to the garden.
Y029 Compo
Green Starling
Dawn
Mexican colours
Bright, bold, birds and botanicals are how we would best describe these wallpapers…and the new season!
Feliz
‘Feliz’ is the Spanish word for ‘happy’, perfect for this happy season.
Lindias Kitchen
Daisies are the perfect representation of the season of rebirth and renewal. They symbolize motherhood and childbirth. “With their yellow centers surrounded by fresh, white petals, daisies have an effortless beauty that we can’t help but love” – Curate Florals.
Bloom
The definition of Bloom is “to produce or yield flowers”, a perfect representation for the season of blooming flowers.
“Amelia’s passion and outlook in creating beautiful living spaces for her clients are born from her global travels across Africa, Australasia, Asia, and Europe. Find the right combination of stunning colours, mix in a passion for textures, and add a huge splash of creativity to create your own unique and gorgeous spaces.”
Agapantha
Blossom
Passion Flower
Pansy
Welcome the season of new beginnings by introducing spring flowers and blooming plants into your space.
“Jane and Jann are inspired by the African textile tradition, rendered in a modern urban context with its blending of diverse sources and influences to create the fabric of a nation.”
After The Fire Colour
This artwork is a great representation of a South African Spring. “The protea is one of the most fascinating plants on earth and, of course, South Africa’s national flower. These beautiful plants attract various birds and insects like sunbirds and bees with their rich, sweet nectar. Proteas, is referred to as fire-loving vegetation, and in need to burn every few years to survive” – Anita Froneman
5. Room 13 collection
“What initially started off as a passion project has developed into a fully-fledged sister company, Room 13 Collection. From [their] fantastical signature botanicals to more subtle geometric and textured designs, [their] 3 Wallpaper Collections covers it all.”
Eden Navy
“A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning in Eden garden.” – Gerard Manley Hopkins (Spring Stanza 2)
“Spring is a lot like the good old times in the biblical Garden of Eden. The bounty and joy of spring can be compared to the sweetness and bounty of the Garden of Eden.”
Willie Schlechter mainly works within the genre of botanical art. He is an award-winning artist and his art has been showcased in multiple exhibitions. “Many of his works are digitally printed onto textiles, wallpaper, ceramics, and sold as limited edition prints.”
Bee and Moth Colour
Spring is the most important and busiest time of the year for honeybees. The worker bees in spring are busy finding food for their colony as soon as the first source of pollen emerges. This is also the queen’s mating and egg production season. (Sioux Honey)
During Spring, young caterpillars emerge. That’s when they begin feeding on all the new tree leaves! After eating for about a month, the caterpillars rest in their pupal cases. A few months later, they emerge as white or brown-winged moths. They then get ready to lay eggs and start the whole process over! (Davey)
“Robyn is a Cape Town based designer with a passion for historic and floral pattern styles. She has created a beautiful collection featuring dahlia flowers, hummingbirds, and other petite florals.”
Dahlia Blooms Green Pink
The best planting time for dahlias is in late spring when all danger of frost is over and the weather is nice and warm (Gardening in South Africa). They are common wedding flowers, a symbol of commitment and an everlasting union. They also represent inner strength, creativity, and elegance (Bunches Direct).
“Jessica loves to illustrate the feeling of fun, whimsical movement combined with the opulent abundance of the natural world. Carrying a deep appreciation for the principles of Feng Shui, she believes that surrounding oneself in inspired beauty generates uplifting energy and inspired life.”
Pond – Green
This wallpaper is one of the most popular, and we can see why. The eye is automatically drawn to the bright pops of flowers, in between a beautifully illustrated pond.
To see more of Robin Sprongs amazing collection of wallpapers, wall decals, tile stickers, and shower panel vinyls, visit one of our showrooms today.
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When picking my wallpaper, how important are the colours and fixtures in my bathroom?
Clients most commonly come to us with their bathroom almost complete. By this stage, it is usual to see that a colour palette has been chosen, alongside matching fixtures objects like the shower rail, washbasin and taps, shower/bath and taps, and floor tiles.
So, we often end up creating a design that fits in with the style of the bathroom that’s already present.
In a perfect world, you might choose to plan your bathroom wallpaper earlier when planning the design of your bathroom overall – but more often than not, building practices are drawn out and stressful and there’s more of a focus on getting this side of the process started as soon as possible.
Thus, it’s a popular approach to pick neutral tones and muted hues that will blend well with the rest of your design choices for your bathroom.
Have a look at these elegant wallpaper panels we created to style a client’s bathroom. It adds to the atmosphere of the room, but subtly as an elegant design that punctuates adds some flair to the neutral-coloured nature of the space.
If you’ve already defined the look for your bathroom, stay in line with the theme broadly but don’t be afraid to stray slightly to add some contrast and creativity.
For a small bathroom space, having a feature wall with a design that draws the eye into the scene and away from the walls blank canvas.
Have a look at our ideas for creating bathroom wallpaper for a guest bathroom – which is typically a smaller sized space, to which you can add sparks of personality.
The Guest Bathroom
The guest bathroom is slightly different from a personal bathroom.
Like shared spaces, it’s more common to see imagery, patterns or colours that are more universally accepted or pleasing to the eye.
But, it’s not uncommon for someone to choose to style their guest bathroom with a slightly unique vision in mind – as it’s a lesser-used space and can be an area show off some creativity or take a risk.
Here, some of the themes we’ve already mentioned still reign true. Popular choices include bathroom wallpapers featuring patterns of birds, flowers, plants and a distinct contrast between these forms and a darker or lighter background colour.
Another popular choice, that you might not think of initially when the idea of styling your bathroom is whirling around in your mind – is fish.
Bathroom wallpapers with fish can create a very interesting feel in a small bathroom. This still sticks to the overall theme of nature, but aquatic instead.
The range of blues associated with the ocean makes a fantastic base background for the wallpaper, which is contrasted by detailed and colourful fish forms.
This creates the depth you’re looking for, whilst the theme of nature is consistent and provides a tranquil feel alongside calming blue tones, used to represent the ocean.
The wallpaper design also has a funky, lighthearted feel, as you’re surrounded by fish with different colours, shapes and sizes. The natural intricate detail of a fish provides an eye-catching edge too.
Final part coming soon…
For any practical advice or assistance, call the Tiletoria Sales Team or visit their closest showroom.
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Finding bathroom wallpaper ideas can be a difficult task, some might even view a bathroom as one of the more challenging environments to style. To help get you started with picking a style for your bathroom wallpaper, we’ve compiled a range of tips for picking wallpaper colours, wallpaper patterns and creating the kind of theme you have in mind:
Which vinyl wallpaper works best in the bathroom?
The fact that there’s moisture within the bathroom space, is a concern but one that can be placated. We will cover ways to deal with this concern later. For some people, choosing their bathroom space is more about not ending up with a standard white and chrome design scheme. Although, there’s nothing wrong with an elegant design scheme, but with bathroom wallpaper, you have a vehicle to emphasise and express any theme or atmosphere that you wish.
This wallpaper, for example, emphasises elegance by taking a vintage, floral-inspired twist. The artist, Jessica Warrwick, loves to illustrate the feeling of fun, whimsical movement combined with the opulent abundance of the natural world. The result is a bathroom wallpaper with muted tones that creates a classy environment.
Choose Your Prefernce from Options Like:
- rustic wallpaper
- modern wallpaper
- floral wallpaper
- landscape wallpaper
- photographic wallpaper
- textured wallpaper designs
Adding a Personal Touch
Unlike a shared space like a living room, which needs to be welcoming to guests, a bathroom is more of an experimental space. It’s popular when styling a bathroom to come across more striking themes and creativity, that relates strongly to a couple or someone’s personal taste. This means that the approach for designing your wallpaper will differ, depending on personal preference, the colour scheme, and fixtures you’ve chosen for the bathroom.
Bathrooms are often associated with the theme of nature which can be important to someone for a variety of reasons.
For some, nature is where they feel at peace. For others, the intricate detail and vibrant colours that nature serves to us on a platter are too much to resist when designing a bathroom wallpaper. Both the atmosphere created by nature and the detail of the wildlife and floral forms are important elements to a natural wallpaper.
The detail of the natural forms is brought to life by specific colours that have a purpose within the piece, the same way nature’s purpose within a bathroom wallpaper provides a sense of calm.
Selecting the right material on which to print your wallpaper
Bathrooms are wet spaces, subject to steam, splashes, spills and drips, wherever they might occur, so you need a wallpaper that will be able to stand the test of time. Steam is a primary factor that makes choosing a wallpaper for your bathroom a bit tricky. Steam can make wallpaper curl and decay designs, so it’s important to pick a durable surface to print your wallpaper on.
For starters choose solid vinyl, fabric-backed vinyl or paper-backed vinyl, as these provide the best splash proof wallpaper surfaces. Picking a plastic-based material will have result in a slight sheen or noticeable reflection, but the plastic nature of the material allows you to clean your wallpaper gently and easily. It also makes the wallpaper slightly water resistant, and this can help with any splashes of water or droplets of moisture left on the walls.
Vinyl wallpaper with a woven backing is also great for the bathroom, as it provides durability against slightly harsher scrubs and nicks. The textured nature of the wallpaper also provides creative room for enhancing the artwork or design. Certain imagery, like rustic wallpapers, vintage wallpapers and floral wallpapers can benefit from this additional texture for added intricate detail.
Part 2- coming soon…
For any practical advice or assistance, call the Tiletoria Sales Team or visit your closest showroom. Tiletoria Paarden Eiland is an official retailer of Robin Sprong Wallpaper so pop in store for inspiration or to get a quote.
