Tropical Wallpaper: Styles, Ideas & How to Make It Yours
A Little Escapism for Your Walls
There's a reason tropical designs never quite go out of fashion: they bring a room energy, colour and a welcome sense of escape. Lush leaves, exotic blooms and dense green foliage turn a wall into something immersive and alive — a little of the far-flung, brought home. Done with restraint, a tropical wallpaper is far more sophisticated than it sounds: rich, characterful and surprisingly easy to live with.
At Claret & Key, every tropical design is drawn by our own designers and printed to order in your chosen colour way, so the version on your wall is the one you chose — your scale, your shade, made especially for you in our Cheshire studio.
Finding your tropical
Tropical is really a family of looks. A jungle design is dense, leafy and immersive, wrapping a room in greenery. A palm or palm-leaf print is breezier and more graphic, with a relaxed, retro charm. A rainforest or tropical-foliage scene leans into lush, layered green for a properly enveloping feel. And a classic tropical mix brings leaves and exotic blooms together for colour and life. Whichever you're drawn to, the mood can be dialled up or down.
Choosing your colour
Because our tropical designs are printed to order, the colour is yours. Fresh, natural greens give the truest, garden-to-jungle feel. A dark, moody tropical — deep greens on a near-black ground — is dramatic and enveloping, and very much of the moment. Softer or more tonal colour ways keep things elegant and understated. Whatever you choose, it's printed in your shade rather than pulled from a fixed range.
Where tropical wallpaper works
Tropical designs bring life to more rooms than you'd expect. A living room takes a lush tropical beautifully, especially on a feature wall. In a bedroom, a darker, moodier tropical feels cocooning and dramatic. A hallway or cloakroom is the perfect place to be bold, and a garden room or conservatory practically asks for greenery. If a room is smaller, lean into it — a rich tropical makes a compact space feel intentional and immersive.
Your tropical, your way
Every design comes in three finishes. Traditional (150gsm, super-matte) is the refined, paste-the-wall classic. Heavy-Grade (300gsm, with a subtle sand texture) stands up to hallways and busy rooms. And Removable peel-and-stick (180gsm) gives you the same design with none of the commitment — ideal for renters, or a room you like to restyle. All are printed to order on FSC-approved, PVC- and VOC-free paper, so they're kinder to the planet and safe for any room in the house.
Greens shift a lot between daylight and lamplight, so order a sample and see your colour way in the room first.
We are totally in love with our new wallpaper for our lounge. It arrived quickly and in excellent quality. We are already looking for our next design 🥰
Absolutely love this wallpaper, needed 4 rolls for the room but completely worth it. Absolutely stunning and excellent to use. Not a fan of wallpapering but this felt so easy because it’s thick so more manageable and blended smoothly
This window seat has never had much personality, and the blue cabinets have always needed an accent that ties them to the overall space. The Amelia pattern was perfect, and the removable wallpaper was very forgiving as I learned how best to line things up well. I’m very happy with the result!
I got the Esme with Background: Calm Breeze
Pattern: Lilypad for my bedroom and absolutely Love it! Very gorgeous! My contractor said the paper was really good quality and, when he put it up, it didn't curl at all. Will definitely order from Clare & Key again.
This was my first attempt at hanging wallpaper. Luckily, our walls were fairly square. I have no comparison, but I found this paper very user friendly. I would gladly shop with you again, and intend to hang more paper in future. Thank you!
The quality is amazing , the personalisation of your name on the rolls added to special feel of it all , the ability to change colours and make it your own , It is beyond perfect and would definitely order again
I have wallpapered for many clients and this by far was one of the easiest wallpapers I have installed. I put this wallpaper in my own dining room to add some color. It is a pretty smokey blue with white leaves. I'm so pleased with how it turned out. I prefer the type that you put the paste on the wall since it is easier to adjust and match the pattern.
This was my first time with putting up any wallpaper and the peel and stick was super easy for a beginner like me. Love that it feels like paper and not plastic like others I’ve seen.
Beautiful design and so glad we could customize the colors.
I would recommend your company to anyone and I will be ordering from you again for other rooms in the home.
Beautiful wallpaper and so easy to work with too as I did the wallpapering myself! Absolutely thrilled with the final look having gone from pale grey and white to the vibrant Ophelia!
