Wallpaper - Chicago Harbor Skyline

Our Harbor Skyline wallpaper captures an open urban waterfront on a clear day, balancing the architectural structure of modern skyscrapers with calm blue water and green shoreline parkland. Designed by Tomas Barbudo, the composition brings together distinct city buildings, including a prominent dark tower with antennas and a rounded white skyscraper, while white boats rest gently in the harbour below. Wispy clouds across a light sky blue backdrop create an airy, expansive visual feel across the wall. Printed made-to-measure on our PVC-free paper with a subtle physical structure, this design brings a fresh, contemporary perspective to a living space.

In the room

In a living room, we see this design working particularly well on a wide, uninterrupted feature wall behind a main sofa or facing a central seating area. Because the horizontal flow stretches from the calm water in the foreground up to the open sky, giving the mural wallpaper plenty of continuous width lets the full scope of the harbour and architectural silhouettes show without feeling crowded. The balanced mix of cool blue sky, verdant park trees, and graphic building lines also lends itself naturally to a bright open-plan living area or dining space, where the clear horizon line adds an expansive visual depth to the surrounding interior.

Styling it

To keep the focus on the detailed architectural skyline and waterfront scenery, we would pair this wallpaper with clean, contemporary furniture featuring understated silhouettes. Low-profile seating and streamlined credenzas in light neutral upholstery or warm blonde wood allow the vertical lines of the skyscrapers to remain the central feature of the room. A simple woven wool rug in an off-white or soft grey tone grounds the seating area nicely without introducing competing pattern against the water and city details.

Colour combinations

The design centres on a crisp palette of sky blue, deep water tones, parkland greens, and clean architectural black and white. Around the wallpaper, we like using soft off-whites, pale chalky greys, or muted stone shades on adjacent walls and woodwork to maintain the bright, open feel of the artwork. If you want to introduce deeper accents through cushions, occasional chairs, or painted shelving, navy blue, charcoal, or forest green echo the colours within the city skyline and shoreline park naturally.

About our wallpaper

At Wallism, our wallpapers are produced made-to-measure based on your exact wall dimensions. Making every order to size helps reduce unnecessary excess wallpaper compared with standard fixed-dimension rolls.

Every wallpaper we produce is PVC-free and printed on paper featuring a subtle physical structure. Our wall murals are designed to be straightforward and easy to hang, providing flexible decorating options to suit different homes and living situations.