Hope, change, and wallpaper

Happy inauguration day! To commemorate the occasion, perhaps we should stencil our walls?

Or, if spray paint isn't your thing, how about some lovely tree wallpaper? Ah, trees! Symbols of rebirth, renewal, wisdom, and strength. Givers of life and fruit. Harbingers of spring!

They're also just pretty.

Graham & Brown's 'Enchant' wallpaper (above, in Sunrise) is my favorite of all those hip tree papers you're seeing nowadays. It's also splendid in Golden Brown (below, left) and Blonde (below, right). Elegant and modern -- just like Michelle O.


More trees, you say?


Kuboaa's Ginko in Licorice (above, left), and Wellington Sequoia in Overcast Blue (above, right).


Osborne and Little's Mandara (above, left), and Ferm Living's Family Tree in Silver (above, right).


Kuboaa's Bonsai in Tan (above, left) and Wistaria in Lint (above, right). ('Wistaria' is intentionally misspelled. What fun for their publicist!)

Where there are trees, there are birds...


Above, left to right: Garden Birds and Pavilion Birds, both by Louise Body; Grove Garden, by Osborne and Little.

And birds fly through clouds...

The sky is clearing! A new day has come! (Clouds wallpaper by Saint Honoré.)

Okay, the hyper-extended metaphor stops there. I'll stop trying to heap historical significance on my wallpaper lust and celebrate these prints for their charm alone:

Nina Campbell's Delphine (left) and Kuboaa's Lucien Damask in Duck Egg (right). Blue leaves and blue velvet -- what fun! The photo styling is très Domino, too, don't you think?

Finally, I give you Graham & Brown's Phantom (in Bronze). In a sea of modern kitsch, it's just sexy.

Metallic chocolate! Yow.