Ruth Light Green
Ruth Light Green is a floral wallpaper with light green blooms and foliage spread across a white and cream ground. The drawing is fine and slightly loose, in the manner of an old botanical print, and the beige tones in the background keep the white from reading as stark. Motifs repeat at a comfortable spacing, so the wall stays open rather than dense.
Pattern and finish
The surface is matte, which means no glare under ceiling lights or daylight and a consistent color across a full wall. It is also textured, giving a fine relief you can feel with your hand and helping to soften minor unevenness in the wall beneath. Because the green is pale, the pattern stays quiet from a distance and only shows its detail up close. More designs in this family are grouped under floral patterns and leaf motifs, and the full range of light green shades is worth comparing side by side. These are premium quality wallpapers.
Style and rooms
The soft palette and hand-drawn botanicals suit farmhouse rooms and vintage schemes built on painted wood, cane, rattan and simple ceramics. It sits well with cream or oak furniture, and gives plain linen curtains and unpatterned rugs something to work against.
- Living rooms, including an accent wall
- Bedrooms and nurseries
- Kitchens, dining rooms and hallways
- Home offices and bathrooms
In a white kitchen the green picks up herbs and glassware without darkening the room, and in a bedroom the low contrast keeps the pattern restful behind a headboard.
French design meets German engineering, made entirely in Europe.