Interiors Guide: Fabrics and Wallpapapers

There are so many wonderful fabrics and wallpapers suitable for children’s rooms, the challenge is making your mind up and choosing which look to go for. To save time, view collections online or go to Chelsea Harbour Design Centre for inspiration and to see a huge number of designers under one roof. There are many designs that will ‘grow’ with your child. Or you could do the walls and curtains simply and accessorize with the latest fabrics for cushions and lampshades. Fringes and tassles can liven up old curtains – and you could make your own bedroom bunting with some extravagant fabric.

Andrew Martin
www.andrewmartin.co.uk
Tel 0207 225 5100
200 Walton Street, SW3
BEST FOR OLDER KIDS
Great embroidered denim with native American drawings (pictured on cover) that would be good in a room for older children. Sassy fabric with high heeled shoes and chandeliers is fun.

Anna French
www.annafrench.com
Tel 0207 351 1126
343 Kings Road, SW3
Large collection of co-ordinating children’s wallpapers and fabrics, especially pretty florals. Her sky wallpaper (pictured on contents page) is heaven.

The Blue Door
www.bluedoorbarnes.co.uk
Tel 87489 9785
77 Church Road, SW13
Good florals and stripes at French/ Swedish emporium in Barnes.

Cabbages and Roses
www.cabbagesandroses.com
Tel 0207 352 7333
3 Langton Street, SW10
Tel 0208 672 6125
Units 1 & 2, Bennets Court, Bellevue Road, SW17
Gorgeous, old fashioned florals,
plus a good range of oil cloths.

Cath Kidston
BEST VINTAGE / RETRO
www.cathkidston.co.uk
Tel 08450 262 440
Shops in SW3, W1, WC2,
W11, W19, W4
The queen of vintage style. Papers and fabrics in strong bright colours: enchanting circus elephants, bubbles and shooting stars, football prints, cowboys and sailing boats. Extensive range of vintage florals with wallpapers in most fabrics.

Celia Birtwell
www.celiabirtwell.com
Tel 0207 221 0877
74 Westbourne Park Road, W2
Her best selling fabric/paper Beasties is a toile type print with animals, birds and plants that is almost Elizabethan in look.

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Chic Shack
www.chicshack.net
Tel 0208 785 7777
77 Lower Richmond Road, SW15
One of only a few shops that sell the Green Gate fabric by the roll. Similar to some of Cath Kidston’s flower prints, it is has a wonderful retro feel.

The Cloth Shop
Tel 0208 968 6001
290 Portobello Road, W10
Excellent range of well made, inexpensive linens, ticking and felt.

Colefax & Fowler
www.colefax.com
Showrooms in Fulham Rd, SW3
Tel 0207 244 7427
and Brook St, W1
Tel 0207 493 2231
Child-friendly Jane Churchill is part of their stable but don’t overlook their own designs. Good trimmings.

Designers Guild
www.designersguild.com/uk/store
Tel 0207 893 7400
267 Kings Road, SW3
Distinctive, brightly coloured children’s collection and a softer baby collection in pale pinks and blues. The Portobello collection for ‘young adults’ is fresh and full of wide stripes and whites.
Also stock Ralph Lauren Home.

Dragons of Walton Street
www.dragonsofwaltonstreet.com
Tel 0207 589 3795
23 Walton Street, SW3
Traditional shop, designing children’s fabrics for 25 years. Their collaboration with Jane Churchill has produced a gorgeous collection of coordinating papers, fabrics and accessories in flower fairies, Beatrix Potter, Changing the Guard, gingham checks and bunnies.

Graham & Brown
www.grahambrown.com
Tel 0800 3288452
Our favourite is the interactive
wallpaper (different shaped frames that kids can stick photos onto or draw pictures). £20 a roll.

GP & J Baker
www.gpjbaker.com
Tel 0207 351 7760
Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, SW10
BEST ANIMAL PRINT
Great selection of beautifully
designed fabrics. We especially like their deer print fabric in blue and white linen in the Gatsby archive collection (see cover).

Hamilton Weston
www.hamiltonweston.com
Tel 0208 940 4850
88 Sheen Road, Richmond
Beautiful hand printed papers
good for older children. Also stocks Lizzie Allen paper.

Harlequin
www.harlequinharris.com
Tel 0870 8300 032
Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, SW10
BEST CHILDREN’S RANGE
Fantastic children’s designs. The Far Far Away Collection has wonderful fabrics and papers depicting people from around the world and one with London buses, gondolas, rickshaws and yellow cabs.
Great stripe and check combinations in fab colours for all ages.

Heals
www.heals.co.uk
London stores in Tottenham Court Road, W1
Tel 0207 636 1666
and Kings Road
Tel 0207 349 8411
Excellent range of books of fabrics and papers from hundreds of designers. Ready made and made to measure curtain and blind service available.

Ian Mankin
www.ianmankin.com
Tel 0207 722 0997
109 Regents Park Road, NW1
Tel 0207 371 8825
Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6
Large collection of ticking stripes in all colours and widths, they also have a good selection of linens, checks and plains.

Ikea
www.ikea.co.uk
Tel 0845 355 1141
Wembley store
Inexpensive range of brightly coloured fabrics. We like the funky geometric patterns of the Elsa collection (£2.99 per metre).

John Lewis/Peter Jones
www.johnlewis.com
Brent Cross Tel 0208 202 6535
Oxford St Tel 0207 629 7711
Kingston Tel 0208 547 3000
Sloane Sq Tel 0207 730 3434
Good collection of well priced fabrics: spots, stripes etc, plus excellent range of oil cloths. Other fabrics and papers can be ordered from sample books. Stocks most well known designers including several that don’t have retail outlets in London.

KA International
www.ka-international.com
Tel 0207 736 5008
793 Fulham Road, SW6
Spanish fabric and furniture shop with vast range of fabrics. Pretty children’s collection of stripes and florals. Good prices. Don’t be put off by impossible website!

Jane Churchill
www.janechurchill.com
Fulham Road, SW3 Tel 0207 244 7427
Brook St W1 Tel 0207 493 2231
Now part of Colefax and Fowler. The Playtime collection is fresh and strong with checks and stripes and a strong nautical theme. The nursery range was created in assocation with Dragons of Walton Street (see separate entry).

Jill Northam
www.jillnortham.co.uk
Tel 0844 980 8521
Beautiful collection of fabrics and papers – a fresh interpretation of traditional lines. We love the Rosy Hedgehog and Child Island designs (pictured p. 9), inspired by summer life on the Suffolk coast. Order online, by phone or from an increasing number of London stockists.

Laura Ashley
www.lauraashley.com
Tel 0871 230 2301
London stores in Knightsbridge, Kensington, Marble Arch and Oxford Street
For ginghams, polka dots and, of course, florals. Excellently priced toile prints (£13 per metre).

Liberty
www.liberty.co.uk
Tel 0207 573 9484
Well known collection of children’s fabrics distributed by Osborne & Little and at Regent Street store.

Linen Works
www.linenworks.com
Tel 0208 961 4900
Original French ticking fabrics in great natural colours. Fantastic range of oilcloths.

Lizzie Allen Wallpaper
BEST BESPOKE
www.lizzieallen.co.uk
Tel 07947 474 928
Fabulous Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace hand-printed wallpaper (pictured opposite).

Malabar
BEST STRIPES
www.malabar.co.uk
Tel 0207 501 42000
Unit 31-33 South Bank Business Centre, Pouton Road, W8
Good collection of appliqué
fabrics especially for boys. We
like the Kolaba and the multi coloured Zaika collections. A
new eco- friendly fabric is
launching later this year.

Maculloch & Wallis
www macculloch-wallis.co.uk
Tel 0207 629 0311
25-26 Dering Street, W1
BEST TO KNOW
Used by milliners for haberdashery dpt, they have a fantastic range of fabrics, denim, gingham checks and fab camouflage (pictured opp.)

Marimekko
Tel 0207 486 6454
16/17 St Christopher's Place, W1
Funky Finnish geometric shapes (see p. 3). Good oilcloths and cushions.

Mini Moderns
www minimoderns.com
Tel 0207 737 6767
Fun modern papers and fabrics (see pic p. 7). We also like their Knock Knock numbers’ wallpaper. Various London stockists include Heals and Olive Loves Alfie or buy online.

Mulberry Home
www.mulberryhome.com
Tel 0207 352 3173
Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, SW10
Lovely Round the Island fabric with sailing boats.

Nautical Living
www.nautical-living.co.uk
Tel 0845 603 1966
Great range of nautical fabrics and good selection of stripes. Gorgeous ready to hang gingham/striped children’s curtains with tab tops. They also stock Jill Northam’s Ahoy range. Buy online or over the phone.

Nina Campbell
www.ninacampbell.com
Tel 0207 225 1011
9 Walton Street, SW3
Fabrics and papers distributed by Osborne & Little. Excellent for ‘adult’ fabrics that double up well for kids. Birdcage Walk, Perroquet and Flaubert are all classics that would look great on nursery walls.

Noolibird
www.noolibird.co.uk
Lovely bedlinen. You can now buy their Fairy Garden and Animal Safari fabric by the metre. Wallpaper borders also available.

The Nursery Window
BEST TRADITIONAL
www.nurserywindow.com
Tel 0207 581 3358
83 Walton Street, SW3
Fabrics for all ages, pretty voile spots in pink, blue and white, traditional rabbit trellis for babies, great New World fabric with map and vintage racing cars. Good selection of wallpapers.

Oliver Bonas
www.oliverbonas.com
Lovely garden birds wallpaper (pictured). Hand finished and contemporary. £95 a roll.

Osborne & Little
www.osborneandlittle.com
Tel 0207 352 1456
304 Kings Road, SW3
Large collection of plain, stripes and upholstery fabrics. Strong butterflies in their Painted Lady range. Extensive wallpaper collection includes gorgeous stars and Chinese dragons. Distributors of Liberty and Nina Campbell.

Paper & Paint Library
www.paintlibrary.co.uk
Tel 0207 823 7755
5 Elystan Street, SW3
Fantastic stardust glitter wallpaper. £49 per roll.

Pierre Frey
www.pierrefrey.com
Tel 0207 376 5599
251-253 Fulham Road, SW3
Fabulous, and fabulously priced, Parisian designs. The Bordure Tyrol (Austrian family skiing circa 1930) is heaven.

Pret a Vivre
www.pretavivre.com
Tel 0845 130 5161
20 All Saints Road, W11
Curtain and blind specialist in any fabric. Good for plain designs. Excellent Brittany tickings.

Ralph Lauren Home
www.ralphlaurenhome.com

London stores in Bond Street Tel 0207 535 7755
Fulham Road Tel 0207 590 7990
Largely true to brand. The Darjeeling florals – elephants, pagodas and flowers – are lovely. Children’s range launching in September.

Russell & Chapple
www.russellandchapple.co.uk
Tel 0207 497 0554
68 Drury Lane, WC2
Economically priced natural materials (cotton duck, hessian, jute) in wide widths.

Skandium
www.skandium.com
Tel 0207 935 2077
86 Marylebone High Street, W1
Tel 0207 584 2066
247 Brompton Road, SW3
Scandinavian lifestyle specialist. The designs from Sandberg are wonderful. Also distribute Marimekko.

Zoffany
www.zoffany.com
Tel 08708 300 060
Chelsea Harbour Design, SW10
Owned by the same group, this is Harlequin’s big brother. Good animal prints in the Sahara range (pictured previous page).

TRIMMINGS
TRACKS AND POLES

Designers Guild
Good trimmings and braids, especially the Cherry Orchard line.

Dragons of Walton Street
Pretty daisy chain braids in yellow, pink or blue.

John Lewis/Peter Jones
Great selection of modern and traditional poles and curtain tracks.

KA International
Reasonably priced tassel and rope trims. Poles, tracks and tie backs.

Laura Ashley
Wooden poles, finials and tiebacks.

McCulloch & Wallis
Ribbons, fantastic brightly coloured beaded trims and lots more.

McKinney & Co
BEST BESPOKE POLES
www.mckinney.co.uk
Tel 0207 627 5077
The Old Imperial Laundry, Warriner Gardens, SW11
Every type of curtain pole, finial and tieback. Expensive. Cheaper versions (including good perspex curtain pole set) available at www.mckinneydirect.co.uk.

Osbourne & Little
Good selection of trimmings.

VV Rouleaux
BEST TRIMMINGS
www.vvrouleaux.com
54 Sloane Square, SW1

102 Marylebone Lane, W1
An Aladdin’s cave of ribbons and trims. Brightly coloured bobbles, tassles, spots and braids. Beautiful crochet flowers, sequined and feathered butterflies.


Bedroom in a Box
www.bedroominabox.co.uk
Tel 01442 871 401
Range of ecologically friendly breathable matt paints available in 138 different colours.

Craig & Rose
www.craigandrose.com
Tel 0870 6001829
A fantastic selection of paints, including the brightly coloured Crayola range, Cath Kidston paints, green paints and Bang on the Door ‘shimmer’ top coat.

Designers Guild
New range of 70 paints from whites and pastels to their signature citruses and pinks.

Dulux
www.dulux.co.uk
Dulux paint dispensers, in DIY shops, can match any shade of colour. Also have magnetic paint.

Earth Born Paints
www.earthbornpaints.co.uk
Eco paints available from a variety of London stockists including www.brewers.co.uk.

Ecos Organic Paints
www.ecospaints.com
103 odourless, organic paints.

Fired Earth
www.firedearth.co.uk
Tel 0845 366 0400

Farrow and Ball
www.farrow-ball.com
Tel 01202 876 141
Clunch or old white? End the agonizing with F&B’s paint
consultancy service. An expert will come to your house, assess your fabrics and furnishings and advise on which F&B paints to use where.

Homebase
www.homebase.co.uk
Tel 0845 077 8888
Blackboard paint.

Nutshell
www.nutshellpaints.com
Tel 01392 421 535
Hand painted samples available. Made from renewable oils, herbs and minerals.

The Little Greene Paint Company
www.thelittlegreene.com
Tel 0845 880 5855
Wood Street, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2FP
Especially good for hard-wearing floor paint.

The Paint & Paper Library
www.paintlibrary.co.uk
Tel 0207 823 7755
5 Elystan St, SW3
Wonderful selection of vibrant and deep paint colours.