In a small bedroom, the headboard and closets can hide much of your wallpaper. Plan an accent wall around the image that will remain visible, or choose a repeating pattern for every wall if you want the wallpaper to shape the whole room.
Start with the wall behind the bed
An accent wall behind the bed is a good choice if you want the wallpaper in one clear place and painted walls elsewhere. If that wall has no doors or windows, it also gives you an uninterrupted surface for a larger design.
Check the headboard height before choosing an image. A landscape with its main details near the floor may disappear behind the bed. A design with plenty to see higher on the wall has more room. Try the wall proportions in the preview and compare the image details with the headboard height.
A tall headboard can also be a reason to choose a wallpaper where color carries the design. Soft Abstract Beige is one of our most ordered abstract designs. It has soft transitions between beige, cream, and pink, rather than a single detail that needs to sit in the middle of the wall. That gives you more flexibility to show parts of the image above and beside the bed.
Finally, take one photo from the doorway and another from the bed. Compare the views. You'll find it easier to decide whether one accent wall gives you what you want to see or whether you'd prefer a repeating pattern around the whole room.
Every wall gives a pattern more places to appear
If you want wallpaper to shape the whole bedroom, a repeating pattern is a good starting point. It appears beside the bed, around the window, and in the spaces next to the closet. Even a room with plenty of furniture can show several parts of the same pattern.
We would consider a leaf or floral pattern for this approach. Floral Gaze, Laurel has repeating flowers and leaves, so you can choose it for the pattern as a whole. A wallpaper sample is a small printed piece of wallpaper you can order to see the colors in your bedroom's light before choosing. Hold it against different walls and judge the flower size from the bed and the doorway.
Across several walls, the wallpaper color plays a larger role. If you want plenty of light color, choose a design where it covers much of the background. If you prefer a darker, cozier feel, you can choose that in a small bedroom, too. Look at the sample in daylight and with the bedside lamps on before deciding.
Judge scale from the places where you use the room
Room size alone doesn't tell you which pattern size you'll enjoy. In a bedroom, you see wallpaper from the door, close to your pillow, and perhaps from a chair by the window. A large leaf can be an appealing detail up close. A dense small pattern can look more like a continuous surface from farther away.
The Floral Gaze sample shows the pattern at actual size. The Soft Abstract Beige sample is a reduced image and mainly helps with color. Use the preview to see how its large color areas are distributed across the wall.