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.
I love how everything turned out and the price point was great. It was a bit challenging to piece together. Being from the USA, it was kind of a challenge to convert all the measurements to figure out how many rolls I needed and then where to cut the rolls to line up the images based on the design repetition. Luckily, I had plenty of wallpaper to work with on the roll.
Absolutely beautiful design and texture. Got the heavy duty wallpaper and put it up without any previous wallpaper experience and it went up very easily and beautifully. Definitely recommend.
Extremely helpful and supportive when I needed advice on measurements, with fast delivery too. The quality of the wallpaper is excellent, and I’m really pleased with the overall service. Highly recommended!
Gorgeous wallpaper, but the measuring option on the website left us short by 1 roll. Had to order another one but when it came the colour match was perfect. Thankfully I wasn’t paying for a decorator, otherwise would have been disappointed in having to pay for them to return. Otherwise great quality wallpaper and design compared to other similar products available.
First purchase from claret and key and truly impressed. Beautiful quality wallpaper. Pretty yet not too fussy. Easy to hang, cut and match. Would work in any room
Good tracking and delivery service too.
Definitely recommend and would reuse for future projects.
Everything went really good. Apart from the quality of the wallpaper which is fantastic, the staff were exemplary in their communications, friendliness and professionalism. They really did go the extra mile to help me.
A great experience all round.
Thank you.
Patrick
Lovely pattern and paper quality.
However, I wish that I had paid more attention to the roll width measurement.
For some strange reason your paper is narrower than a standard roll. This caused me a great deal of problems when papering my lobby, a small area but that made it more difficult because I was left with a narrow space to fill on 3 walls with a very long drop.
Although I love the paper I probably wouldn't use it again just for this reason.
Why you would produce paper not of a standard width is for you to know and me to wonder but it has made my small project very difficult.
Used this paper to make a dark study cosier. Absolutely loved the colour - the background is a perfect match to our existing panelling painted in Farrow and Ball Old White. First time using paste the wall and it was a revelation so easy and much less mess. Quality of the paper is great but noted the rolls are slightly narrower than most wallpapers. Loved the pattern match which meant little waste what we had left we used to recover some old box files which was easy. I thoroughly recommend.
Great quality wallpaper! The print is beautiful, the wallpaper is thick, and fairly easy to install. Our small area took about an hour and a half because we had a lot of of awkward cuts.
Will definitely be using this brand again!
The paper was just hung and we are thrilled.
The quality of the paper, ease of working with it, (per the paper hangers), your customer service, all were exceptional. We will be ordering again. Thank you!!
Fabulous wallpaper and excellent customer service. This Bronte wallpaper has given my kitchen a new lease of life. Will definitely buy from here again.
