wallpaper
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Guest rooms include zebra-print wallpaper and faux alligator-skin panels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
And yes, a fourth-season subplot finds the first gentleman hightailing to London to find some purpose beyond perusing wallpaper swatches.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Guests are welcomed by a gorgeous entrance with 10-foot ceilings, where striped wallpaper, crown molding, and large arched doorways immediately set the tone.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
There wasn’t a trace of dirt left on the wallpaper, the tiles, even the bathroom cabinets.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
The great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
The popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee has announced he plans to shut down his subscription app for mobile phone wallpapers, Panels.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
“Certain colors get canceled out. You have to think about wallpapers, upholstery and drapery fabric. Those are the big things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Boston Globe’s lead baseball scribe wallpapered the sports section with his Sunday Notes column, providing intelligence from all around Major League Baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
From wallpapered ceilings and hand-painted murals to lattice-covered walls and dueling kitchen islands, each room is a visual delight, even if it’s not your personal taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Now, ahead of the big game, the league has effectively wallpapered its image onto Las Vegas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
At the far end was a nearly invisible door, wallpapered over like the entrance to a secret passageway.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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If Nickey and Kehoe are working with a lively pattern in a bedroom, for instance, wallpapering a single wall behind the bed may be enough.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Reita Green, a former dancer and actress, has become best friends with wallpapering partner Beverly Pate, who’s 58 years her junior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023
The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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