Children's wallpaper

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Am about to move DD into the bigger bedroom and therefore am planning on decorating it all girly (She's 2 btw). I have set my heart on wallpapering as other rooms in this house that are painted don't look good. Besides which I'd like a pattern round the walls.

I have tried the usual DIY shops (Focus, Homebase, B&Q) and found a handful of possibilites, but having got them home they just look nasty and cheap. Then found Wallpapre Direct online and sent for a sample or 2. Decided on the one we want only to discover they no longer sell it.

Found a lovely online site which had rolls and rolls of fantastic patterns, however it's in Germany so although happy to pay delivery fee for rolls, not so for samples!

Soooo. Anyone recomend somewhere I can buy nice girly wallpaper (by that I mean pastel colours)? And ideally for £15 per roll and under.

don't you have any independent decorator shops? These usually have a HUGE range of wallpapers

I think children's wallpapers are often really nasty. But if you insist on going ahead with this terrible idea, I think Designers Guild do some decent ones

I bought some beautiful paper for dd's room in Laura Ashley. It has pink butterflies on it and is pretty but not too childish so hopefully should last a fair few years! I bought it in the sale.

agree - designers guild do some lovely ones that will do for older girls too, so you wouldn't have to redo for a while

we sell wallpaper at work and there are some lovely designs out there but not at £15 a roll I am afraid. Harlequin, Osborne and Little and Casamance/Casadeco in particular do some great stuff but they are pricier.

bodiddly - what would they go for? we're only doing one wall for dd and would stretch to maybe £40/50 ??

Thanks for your responses. I had tried Laura Ashley but they only had 1 childs design (which Dh didn't like). We used to have 2 shops locally that had wallpaper books but unfortunatly both have gone under in the last couple of months.

Thats the main problem I'm coming up against Bodiddly, found some lovely ones, but £20 a roll is out of our budget

They all vary in price but probably somewhere between £20 and £30 a roll. You need to work out how many rolls you want but if it is only for 1 wall you probably dont need much. Unless you have really high ceilings or pick an enormous pattern repeat then you usually get 3 drops of wallpaper per roll which equates to about 1.5m across the width of the wall. An average roll is 10m long and 52cm wide.

You could paper just one wall and paint the others. That way you could splurge on the paper. I did that with my D.Ds, and the other walls I painted with a magnetic undercoat so she could put up her paintings etc without damaging the paintwork.

The walls really aren't that good a shape to be painted. We prob will paint one wall as it's mainly taken up by a window.

Hmmm. Back to the drawing board I guess

How many rolls do you think you need?