An effortless way to introduce warmth, depth and a little luxury into a room, gold foil wallpaper brings high-impact design to your home. Embracing our love of pattern and texture, our wallpaper designs are reimagined with gold foil accents that instantly add a reflective glamour to your interior.
As the gold-foil finish responds to its surroundings, the final effect can vary depending on the light, colours and textures it’s paired with. Rather than treating gold as something reserved only for glamorous schemes, it can work beautifully across contemporary, classic and more relaxed interiors.
Explore our design team’s guide on why you should choose gold foil and how to style it well to create the perfect luxurious effect.
What is gold foil wallpaper?
Expertly printed in-house, our gold foil wallpaper collection sees our paste-the-wall designs printed with a gold metallic film to create shimmering, highly-reflective accents across our much-loved patterns and designs.
Gold foil wallpaper adds the perfect decorative touch with a shiny, reflecting finish, ideal for bringing light into smaller confined spaces or embracing natural light areas.
What is the difference between metallic wallpaper and gold-foil wallpaper?
Bringing the same opulent effect to your space, the key difference between metallic wallpaper ranges and gold foil designs is the printed finish and light-reflecting effect.
Whilst metallic ranges bring a flat finish and subtle shimmer on the paper, our gold foil uses printed filming techniques to create a true mirror-like effect.
How to style gold foil wallpaper in your home?
Maximise your space
Gold foil designs double up as the perfect way to create a sense of light, even in darker corners or confined spaces. Think beyond the feature wall and embrace the design on every wall, from hallways and walkways to a small office space or dressing room.
Add a light-reflective touch and create an illusion of a brighter area when styled alongside lamps and wall lights for a warmer, more atmospheric shimmer.
Embrace natural light
As well as working well in smaller spaces, we love our gold foil wallpaper in open-plan areas that bring in a lot of natural light.
The gold accents throughout a patterned wall catch the light effortlessly throughout the day, acting as a perfect alternative to wall art or decor when used as a feature wall design. Position the paper where it catches the sunlight from a window, skylight or bi-fold doors.
A useful tip is to view a wallpaper sample both during the day and in the evening before deciding where to hang it. Gold foil papers can change considerably as the light changes.
Style alongside warm and soft paint colours
Our gold foil wallpaper is balanced perfectly against simple walls to really make an impact.
If you opt for gold foil prints in neutral tones, such as our cream tropical linen leaf in gold foil, painting the rest of the room in a soft beige or ivory emulsion paint can work really well to let the wallpaper have its moment.
Richer patterns and hues, such as our floral gold foil or darker speckled stripe designs, pair well with a moodier wall colour like rich navy or deep mocha browns. These saturated shades make metallic details feel richer and more dramatic.
Add softer textures for contrast
The heavier shine of the gold foil can be balanced well with softer furnishings and textures, such as fluffy rugs, linen-effect curtains or oversized textured cushions.
This keeps gold foil feeling sophisticated rather than overly glamorous alongside natural, tactile materials. It’s all about not overwhelming the space and letting the gold foil accents become the focal point.
Keep furniture choices clean and modern
Don’t overwhelm the space with busy furniture textures. Look at natural woods or matte finish pieces to let the wallpaper become the main feature. Simple furniture silhouettes, plain upholstery and understated window treatments give the design space to breathe.
Our Coral leaf gold foil wallpaper pairs effortlessly with natural oak woods, whilst our Bark gold foil designs brings a sense of opulence when styled with matte black furniture and leather seating.
You can echo the gold subtly elsewhere in your interior, through photo frames, table lamps, cabinet handles or decor accessories, rather than trying to match it everywhere.
Final tips for styling gold foil
Gold doesn't have to mean formal or opulent. Styled with natural materials, relaxed textiles and warm paint colours, gold foil wallpaper can feel contemporary and liveable.
Treat the metallic element as a highlight allowing the light to do some of the decorating, and surround it with enough texture and quieter finishes to let the gold really shine.
