wallpaper

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Inside, the wallpaper is flaking, carpets are frayed and doors are broken.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Kennedy praised it as a place where kids can have access to organic food and learn trades like baking, building furniture, or producing wallpaper.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

She has this fantastic wallpaper that she did up the walls, across the ceiling, and turned into drapes.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

In 1957, Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to create a new kind of textured wallpaper by attaching two plastic sheets together, but pockets of air got stuck in between.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

By the living room door was a narrow space that ended in the frosted-glass door of the front entrance through which a diffused blood-orange light embossed the beige and olive wallpaper in fiery honeycomb patterns.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan