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Can you help me find this wallpaper?

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VWdieselnightmare · 27/10/2023 11:38

I grew up in the Petworth area (West Sussex) and a friend who still lives there sent me details of a house currently for sale in the area. It's a house where someone we knew when we were children lived, back in the Late Middle Ages. It's been refurbished and developed since then, and the person who's decorated and designed it clearly has a great eye.
My friend has fallen in love with one of the bathrooms and wants to do the main bathroom of her old house out in similar fashion. There's just a small glimpse of the wallpaper but it's quite unusual. I thought if anyone could recognise it, it would be the eagle eyes of Mumsnet. Can anyone help?
It's picture 27 — a Chinoisierie wallpaper. Tried to post the image on its own but the whole listing has come up.
https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential/for-sale/upperton-petworth-west-sussex-gu28/hsm190170

https://www.knightfrank.com/properties/residential/for-sale/upperton-petworth-west-sussex-gu28/hsm190170

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troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 11:48

Japanese garden?

Can you help me find this wallpaper?
troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 11:50

Yes think that's the right one!

troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 11:53

@VeridicalVagabond thanks I can never do links in my phone.

VWdieselnightmare · 27/10/2023 12:30

Thank you very much. she'll be pleased.

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VWdieselnightmare · 27/10/2023 12:56

Just told her and she's amazed at the wonders of MN and has more questions.

Can you recognise the tiles? What instructions do you give to a tiler to get them to look like that? (I think she means there's no apparent grout between them)

Would she need to treat the wallpaper with something to prevent it getting damp?

I think that's it.

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troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 13:07

A quick look on ca pietra shows up these. Second colour is closer but with the first brick formation. There is grout in the house photo it's just darker coloured. There is a white edging tile on the house photo too.
If your friend searches blue/grey textured subway tile I'm sure some cheaper options will come up. Although ca pietra does the most gorgeous tiles it just depends on budget.

I don't know if you would need something on the wallpaper... im sure someone more knowledgeable will be along soon.

Can you help me find this wallpaper?
Can you help me find this wallpaper?
troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 13:08

Sorry first colour is closer with formation of second picture.

For some reason they posted the other way round!

troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 13:10

Sorry didn't answer the question

Subway tile
Brick formation
Dark grey grout
Thin white edging tile

But to honest I'd just show him the picture and say can you do this.

KievLoverTwo · 27/10/2023 13:14

VeridicalVagabond · 27/10/2023 11:52

Yes that's it, Osborne and Little Japanese Garden

Here

At £223 a Roll, it would probably be cheaper to hire a frieze artist to paint it.

Do people really spend that?!

TheClitterati · 27/10/2023 13:20

its a seriously beautiful house

CarrieMoonbeams · 27/10/2023 13:32

Wow, well done @troppibambini6 !

VWdieselnightmare · 27/10/2023 13:33

It wasn't such a lovely house when we used to go and play there. In fact we don't recognise much of it at all. I'm talking about the 1960s, when we were at primary school, so a lot's been done to it since.

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Janieforever · 27/10/2023 13:38

KievLoverTwo · 27/10/2023 13:14

At £223 a Roll, it would probably be cheaper to hire a frieze artist to paint it.

Do people really spend that?!

Yes, but you’d likely do one wall as a feature.

troppibambini6 · 27/10/2023 19:09

@CarrieMoonbeams what can I say I'm an interiors geek Grin

Nows · 27/10/2023 20:09

I like that house so much it hurts!

VWdieselnightmare · 27/10/2023 20:47

I know. If only we had £3 million, eh? I bet it doesn't look quite as good without the lovely furnishings.

I was looking through the photos again, trying (and failing) to identify anything familiar from 50 years ago. I'm not much of an interiors person really, but I love the rug in the living room in photo 13 (and isn't that a lovely light, grown-up but not overly formal room?) and also the upholstery on the red chair in photo 22 and the cushions in 26, if any of the interiors experts here fancy trying to identify them I'd be nearly as chuffed as my mate. Though given the price of the wallpaper I doubt I could afford to get my old armchair redone...

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dontcallmelen · 28/10/2023 17:48

I have wallpaper in my bathroom & used poly vine dead flat varnish, been done over a year now & no sign of any issues with the wallpaper, used a small roller gave it a couple of coats dries quickly.

VWdieselnightmare · 29/10/2023 11:43

Thank you for that advice, I'll pass it on. With wallpaper costing north of £200 a roll you don't want it peeling off in the steam, or getting toothpaste spatter on it and not being able to wash it off.

For anyone still there, my friend thinks that the tiles are Fired Earth Forecast, though not sure which colour. Fired Earth are crap at identifying which colour has been used in their photos.

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