Expert Designer Tips & Tricks

Practical design tips, workflow advice, and creative techniques from professional surface designers.

Professional Designer Tips & Techniques

Get practical tips and creative techniques from professional designers that help you work smarter, avoid common mistakes, and elevate the quality of your designs. Learn strategies for selecting patterns, balancing color, and refining details to achieve polished results. These expert insights make it easier to approach projects with confidence and create spaces that feel cohesive and inspired.

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Bathroom with floral wallpaper and purple flowers in a vase.

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Reconnect to Home: Easy Summer Spruce Up Ideas

In the heat of the busy, summertime craziness, a huge home project can seem daunting. Often, people forget about the small, less obvious spaces around their homes that can be a more approachable commitment and still deliver a big, noticeable impact. Here are a few smaller, forgotten spaces that could transform with an easy summer spruce up.

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Entryway featuring Spoonflower's new Traditional wallpaper.

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Introducing Spoonflower's Brand-New Traditional Wallpaper

We are beyond excited to introduce our brand-new Traditional wallpaper! This addition to our wallpaper assortment has been long-awaited, and we are thrilled to share more about what makes this substrate so special.

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Interior Design Tips From Aiel Okin

Interior designer and author Ariel Okin shares how she used Spoonflower to bring the Fenimore Lane Design Summit to life, from custom event textiles to cohesive design storytelling. In this Q&A, she discusses the creative flexibility of Spoonflower's fabrics and patterns, the importance of supporting independent designers, and her approach to creating memorable, personalized event experiences.

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Caroline Walker in her Spoonflower at-home office.

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Return to Home: Behind the Scenes with Spoonflower Sr. Director Caroline Walker

Designing for Home

Home. The most powerful space you can create, centered around a family and its needs. It is the place where we find joy, celebrate, and gather to enjoy our lives. Leading Sales and Marketing at Spoonflower, I wake up every day thinking about how our teams introduce new shoppers to the brand and help customers discover the designs that meet the home where it is in its season of life, and even seasons to come.

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Living room with green striped wallpaper on ceiling and walls.

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Why Your Next Home Makeover Should Use Wallpaper Instead of Paint

When you’ve just moved into a new home, typically painting is the first project on your radar. Whether it’s because the previous owner moved out in a rush and left scratches on the walls, or whether it’s because you know this will likely be the only time without any furniture in the house, painting tends to be everyone’s go-to quick remedy. But before you go through the effort and spend the money on painting your walls, here’s why you should consider wallpapering your new home instead.

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