Are 'feature walls' unutterably naff?

[scampadoodle]

We had our loft converted last year & it's now our bedroom. I tend to decorate very neutral as I collect a lot of vintage tat treasures and fabrics, and this room is painted off-white. However there's nowhere to display anything (& I prefer bedrooms to be restful anyway) but after being away all summer I'm lying here thinking that it's really boring. I don't fancy painting it a colour but all-over wallpaper would be too much I think and DH would whinge . Would one wallpapered wall look too cliched? I feel the painted feature wall has had its day but maybe wallpaper still has some life?

If you're short of display space why not just cover it with shelves and pictures and fabrics etc?

I feel the other way round. My mum had one wall wallpapered in the 1950s and continued with that plan until she died in the 1990s. It always looks dated to me.

A painted feature wall in a darker shade of the same colour as the rest of the walls looks quite good to me, where I've seen it done.

Couldn't you just have a feature wall if you wanted it? Who is going to see it? Who would judge it?
Our house is full of Ikea, hardly original but we like the things we picked. (But no Ikea artwork, we aren't students!).
We also have a huge photo frame with spaces for thirty photos on the stairs wall - not everyone's cup of lapsang suchong.

(And our Xmas tree is plastic! I know, how 1993!)

Honestly, it's your house. I don't like the big flowery walpapers but I don't see why it's now deemed compulsory to paint all walls the same colour. I'd put shelves up and display your stuff there. Leaning your pictures against a wall now, as opposed to actually hanging them, is current - so will, of course, look dated in a few years.

Mine looks lovely

Our feature wall looked naff but loved the print so instead of getting rid, we put up shelves, photos and other wall art so only a little bit of the paper can be seen. It looks quite classic now.

I agree.. Your room, your way. However, you could go for something like a very large rococo mirror or clock or something.

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The wall I'm thinking of faces my bed mrspaddy so I don't want to be confronted with my own reflection all the time

I do that 'leaning pictures' thing too, mainly because I'm too lazy to hang them properly.

And yes, you're right in that it's my room and no one sees it except family so I should just do what I want... good point: thank you!

[Grin] i get you

What you could do is go for a different paint colour or a more subtle wallpaper..

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