A small bedroom may leave little wallpaper visible above the headboard or beside the wardrobes. Choose a feature wall for a larger image, or a repeating pattern on every wall if you want the wallpaper to set the tone throughout the room.
Start with the wall behind the bed
A feature wall behind the bed is a good choice if you want the wallpaper in one clear place and painted walls elsewhere. If the wall has no doors or windows, you also have an uninterrupted area for a larger design.
Check the height of your headboard before choosing an image. A landscape with its main details near the floor may disappear behind the bed. A design with plenty to see higher up the wall has more room to show. Try the wall's proportions in the preview and compare the details in the image with the height of the headboard.
A tall headboard can also be a reason to choose wallpaper where colour is the main feature. Soft Abstract Beige is one of our most ordered abstract designs. It has soft transitions between beige, cream and pink, rather than a single detail that needs to sit in the middle of the wall. That gives you more freedom to let part of the image show above and beside the bed.
Finally, take one photo from the doorway and another from the bed. Compare the two views. It will be easier to decide whether a feature wall gives you what you want to see, or whether you would prefer a repeating pattern around the whole room.
Every wall gives the pattern more places to show
If you want the wallpaper to shape the whole bedroom, a repeating pattern is a good starting point. It appears beside the bed, around the window and in the spaces next to the wardrobe. Even a room with lots of furniture can have several visible sections of the same pattern.
We would consider a leaf or floral pattern for this approach. Floral Gaze, Laurel has repeating flowers and leaves, so you can choose it for the pattern as a whole. A wallpaper sample is a small printed piece of wallpaper you can order to check the colours in your bedroom's light before deciding. Hold the sample against different walls and see how large the flowers look when you are sitting in bed and standing in the doorway.
Across several walls, the wallpaper's colour has a greater influence on the overall look. If you want plenty of light colour, choose a design where it covers much of the background. If you prefer a darker, more cocooning feel, you can choose that in a small bedroom too. Look at the sample in daylight and with the bedside lamps on before deciding.
Judge the scale from the places you use the room
Room size alone does not tell you which pattern size you will enjoy. In a bedroom, you see the wallpaper from the doorway, close to your pillow and perhaps from a chair by the window. A large leaf can be a lovely detail up close. A dense, small pattern may look more like a continuous surface from further away.
For Floral Gaze, the sample shows the pattern at its actual size. The sample for Soft Abstract Beige is a reduced version of the image and mainly helps you judge the colours. Use the preview to see how its large areas of colour spread across the wall.