Black & White Chinoiserie Wallpaper for Dining Rooms
Chinoiserie began in 18th-century Europe as an imaginative response to imported painted silks and porcelain. Branches, blossom and birds give walls a hand-painted, collected-over-time feel.
Dining rooms come alive by lamplight, which is why rich, dark or highly decorative wallpapers excel here. Consider papering all four walls for an enveloping, intimate mood.
Black and white wallpaper is graphic, timeless and surprisingly easy to style.
Our edit of 17 original designs includes cherry bough, garden birds, garden of birds, pavilion garden, peony bough, songbird and more. Highlights from the edit include Trerice Willow Court, Montacute Garden of Birds, Lacock Peony Bough.
Shown: Trerice Willow Court Wallpaper in Black Lacquer.
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Trerice Willow Court Wallpaper
Montacute Garden of Birds Wallpaper
Lacock Peony Bough Wallpaper
Hanbury Willow Court Wallpaper
Rutland Garden Birds Wallpaper
Gorham Songbird Wallpaper
Dunmore Songbird Wallpaper
Milner Garden Birds Wallpaper
Cedric Garden Birds Wallpaper
Oxburgh Pavilion Garden Wallpaper
Marston Garden Birds Wallpaper
Copley Garden Birds Wallpaper
Florence Pavilion Garden Wallpaper
Derwent Garden Birds Wallpaper
Sandford Songbird Wallpaper
Briar Cherry Bough Wallpaper
Oakley Cherry Bough Wallpaper
Styling tips
- Lacquer-red, celadon and gold accents suit chinoiserie, as do bamboo-effect furniture and blue-and-white ceramics.
- Add one accent colour – yellow, green or red – for a contemporary edge.
- Dark grounds hide marks and make candlelight glow.
- Run it all the way round a dining room or bedroom to create the immersive 'painted room' effect it was invented for.
How much will I need?
A typical dining room wall of about 4.0 m wide × 2.4 m high needs 8 drops. With a 64 cm pattern repeat you get 3 drops per 10 m roll, so you would order 3 rolls – from £132.60 on Standard paper to £217.62 on Luxe. Use the calculator on any product page for your exact walls.
Make it your own
Every design in this edit can be recoloured, rescaled and previewed on a photo of your own wall in Design Your Own, then printed made-to-measure.
Frequently asked questions
Is chinoiserie wallpaper a good choice for a dining room?
Run it all the way round a dining room or bedroom to create the immersive 'painted room' effect it was invented for. Dark grounds hide marks and make candlelight glow. We currently have 17 chinoiserie designs suited to dining rooms.
Will black & white wallpaper work in my dining room?
Add one accent colour – yellow, green or red – for a contemporary edge. Dark grounds hide marks and make candlelight glow.
Can I change the colours of a design?
Yes – open any design in our Design Your Own tool to change colours, scale and layout, then order it made to measure for your wall.
Are your designs original?
Yes. Every pattern is an original Wallpaper Kingdom artwork created in-house; we do not reproduce other designers' work.
Is your wallpaper paste-the-wall?
All Wallpaper Kingdom papers are non-woven and paste-the-wall, so they are quicker to hang and dry-strippable when you want a change.