Few designs can change the feel of a room as completely as rainforest wallpaper. Where a simple leaf print adds pattern, a rainforest scene adds depth: tall palms, layered canopies and glimpses of wildlife that make a flat wall feel like a view. Whether you're drawn to dark and moody foliage, soft monochrome leaves, sketched vintage illustrations or playful designs filled with monkeys and toucans, the right rainforest wallpaper can turn an everyday room into a calm, green retreat. And because so much of its impact comes from that sense of depth, it can transform a single feature wall just as powerfully as a whole room.
In this guide, we'll start by untangling the difference between rainforest, jungle and forest wallpaper, then explore five rainforest wallpaper styles and the rooms they suit best. You'll discover some of our favourite designs, weigh up pattern against mural, decide between light and dark, and pick up practical styling tips to help you bring the whole look together.
What's The Difference Between Rainforest, Jungle And Forest Wallpaper?
Rainforest wallpaper shows a tropical landscape in layers, from tall trees down to broad leafy plants, with depth between them. Jungle wallpaper zooms into dense, tangled undergrowth, while forest wallpaper swaps the tropics for cooler pines, firs and woodland trees.
Rainforest Wallpaper
If you love a sense of depth, rainforest wallpaper is the one to look at. Instead of covering the wall in leaves, it builds a scene: tall palms rising above, broad tropical plants layered beneath, and enough space between them for your eye to travel back into the view. That depth keeps it surprisingly calm, so it works well in kitchens and dining areas where you want character without clutter. Elegant Rainforest shows this beautifully, with fine linework and soft sand tones that sit easily beside sage cabinetry.
Featured: Elegant Rainforest, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Jungle Wallpaper
Jungle wallpaper brings everything closer. Picture thick, overlapping foliage running edge to edge, with almost no sky showing through. It feels wilder and more enveloping than a rainforest scene, and it often hides little surprises among the leaves. Birds in the Jungle is a lovely example: deep green fronds fill the whole wall behind the bed, so the room feels wrapped in greenery. Try it on a single bedroom wall when you want a cosy, cocoon-like mood.
Featured: Birds in the Jungle, Mural Wallpaper
Looking for wilder, denser designs? Explore our guide to jungle wallpapers you'll love for your home.
Forest Wallpaper
Forest wallpaper leaves the tropics behind. Here you'll find pines, firs and woodland trees, usually in cooler greens and greys and often softened with mist. The mood is quieter and more Nordic than a rainforest wallpaper, so choose it if you want nature on your walls without the heat and colour of the tropics. Misty Fir Woods captures this perfectly, with a fog-wrapped line of conifers that feels wonderfully calm above a low sofa.
Featured: Misty Fir Woods, Landscape Mural Wallpaper
Prefer pines and woodland to tropical leaves? Discover more forest wallpapers to bring nature inside your home.
What Are The Different Rainforest Wallpaper Styles?
Rainforest wallpaper ranges from dark, dramatic foliage to soft sketched illustrations, so there's a style to suit almost every room and mood. Here are five to consider.
Dark And Moody Rainforest Wallpaper
Deep green backgrounds give rainforest wallpaper a rich, enveloping feel, especially in a bedroom where you want to switch off at night. Layers of olive, sage and warm rust-toned leaves overlap across the wall, creating depth that changes as the light fades through the evening. Night-time Jungle in Forest Green is a gorgeous choice behind a headboard, and pairs beautifully with oatmeal linen and pale timber.
Featured: Night-time Jungle, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Love a deeper palette? Read our dark and moody wallpaper guide for styles, colours and tips.
Muted Monochrome Rainforest Wallpaper
Not every rainforest needs to be green. Monochrome designs keep the oversized tropical shapes but soften them into greys, which makes them easier to live with if your scheme is mostly neutral. Botany Mist uses huge banana leaves in shades of pewter and dove grey, giving you all the drama of a rainforest wallpaper with a calm, understated finish that suits bedrooms and reading corners.
Featured: Botany Mist, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Rainforest Wildlife Wallpaper
For a wall that tells a story, look for designs with animals woven into the scene. Monkey Sanctuary sets monkeys among tall palms, with herons by the water and a misty valley and waterfall in the distance. It's the kind of rainforest wallpaper you keep noticing new details in, which makes it a wonderful focal point in a living room or a family space where everyone gathers.
Featured: Monkey Sanctuary, Animal Mural Wallpaper
Want more animal-filled designs? Browse our wildlife wallpaper ideas, with styles, rooms and styling tips.
Vintage Illustrated Rainforest Wallpaper
Sketched, hand-drawn styles feel softer and more whimsical than realistic prints. Willow Bush layers fine-lined tropical leaves in sage and blush, so the rainforest reads gently rather than boldly. It's especially lovely in a nursery or child's bedroom, where you want something imaginative that will still feel right as they grow.
Featured: Willow Bush, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Oversized Leaf Rainforest Wallpaper
Going big with scale is one of the easiest ways to make a small wall feel bold. Monstera Green fills the space with giant, glossy-looking monstera leaves, so just a few shapes create real impact. If your room is compact, this style often works better than busy small-scale foliage, because larger motifs read as calmer from across the room.
Featured: Monstera Green, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
For more fresh, leafy looks, see our green leaf wallpaper ideas to refresh your home.
Which Rooms Are Best For Rainforest Wallpaper?
Rainforest wallpaper works best in living rooms, bedrooms, kids' rooms and dining rooms, where a large uninterrupted wall lets the scene unfold. The trick is matching the depth of the design to the room: soft, airy canopies for spaces you relax in, and bolder, more playful scenes where you want energy and conversation.
Rainforest Wallpaper For The Living Room
The living room is where rainforest wallpaper has the most room to breathe, so choose your longest wall without doors or windows and let the scene run its full width. A pale, airy design keeps the space feeling open, which matters if your living room doubles as a family space. Tranquil Jungle layers soft blue palms over a light background, giving you the sense of a view without darkening the room. Keep the furniture in front low, ideally a sofa no taller than about 85cm, so the trunks and canopy stay visible. Rattan, light oak and white linen echo the relaxed mood, and paint the other walls in the palest tone from the mural rather than brilliant white, which can look stark beside it.
Featured: Tranquil Jungle, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Discover more living room wallpapers that not only reflect your personal style but also help create a warm, welcoming atmosphere your whole family will enjoy.
Rainforest Wallpaper For The Bedroom
In a bedroom, rainforest wallpaper should feel calming rather than busy, so look for fine line work or a low-contrast palette. Banana Foliage traces outlined banana leaves along the lower half of a soft sage wall, leaving plenty of plain space above, which is restful to look at from bed. Before ordering, measure the height of your headboard and check that the foliage line will still show above it, otherwise the design disappears behind the bed. If your bedroom is small, a tonal design like this is a safer choice than a dense canopy, because it adds texture without closing the walls in. Warm bedside lamps around 2700K keep the sage looking soft in the evening rather than grey.
Featured: Banana Foliage, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Your bedroom should be a sanctuary, a space that reflects your personal style and helps you unwind at the end of the day. Explore our bedroom wallpaper designs to create your perfect retreat.
Rainforest Wallpaper For The Kids' Room
Children love a wall with something to discover, which makes rainforest wallpaper a natural fit for a nursery or kids' room. Wild Haven brings peacocks and birds into a scene of palms and ferns under a soft, cloudy sky, so there is plenty to spot without the design feeling loud at bedtime. Place the cot or bed against the mural wall rather than facing it, so the scene frames the room without being the last thing a restless toddler stares at. Animal scenes in muted greens grow with a child far better than bright cartoon prints, so you are less likely to redecorate in a few years. Keep bedding plain white or sage and let the wallpaper provide all the pattern.
Featured: Wild Haven, Animal Mural Wallpaper
Choose your child's favourite design from our curated collection of kids wallpapers.
Rainforest Wallpaper For The Dining Room
The dining room is the place to be a little braver, because you spend shorter stretches of time there and a lively wall gets everyone talking. Midnight Tropics takes a folk-art approach to the rainforest, with a leopard, a monkey, palms and oversized flowers drawn in muted greens and plums on a warm cream background. A playful design like this works well behind a dining table pushed against the wall, where the chairs and table break up the lower half and the bold motifs carry above. Pick up one colour from the mural for your chair cushions or table linen, and keep the timber natural so the room feels relaxed rather than themed.
Featured: Midnight Tropics, Jungle Mural Wallpaper
Create a beautiful gathering space with our collection of dining room wallpapers. From traditional patterns and rich colours for formal dining settings, to light, airy motifs for everyday gatherings, our wallpaper designs are curated to suit a variety of styles.
Rainforest Wallpaper #11: Playful Tiger, Pattern Wallpaper
Playful Tiger is made for anyone who wants their rainforest wallpaper to have a little mischief. Striking orange tigers peer out from a dense tangle of tropical leaves, so the pattern rewards a second look every time you walk past. On a deep forest green background, the tigers glow warmly against the foliage, making it a bold backdrop for a grey sofa with mustard and green cushions. It works across living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, powder rooms and kids' rooms, in Sand, Forest Green or Dark Blue.
Featured: Playful Tiger, Pattern Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #12: Amazon, Botanical Pattern Wallpaper
If you prefer a rainforest wallpaper that's subtle rather than showy, Amazon is a tasteful choice. Ferns and layered foliage are drawn in a soft tonal palette, so the pattern adds texture and depth without competing with your furniture. In Stratos Grey, the leaves blend into a moody grey-green ground that looks beautifully calm behind rattan dining chairs or a reading nook. It's easy to use across living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and home offices, and with eight colourways, from Blush Pink to Midnight Ocean, you can match it to almost any scheme.
Featured: Amazon, Botanical Pattern Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #13: Banana Garden, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Banana Garden is perfect if you want the feel of a rainforest canopy while keeping your room light and open. Oversized banana leaves cascade across the upper wall, mixing deep green botanical tones with soft line-drawn detail, while the lower wall stays clean and bright. That composition draws the eye upward, so it adds height without overwhelming a bedroom or living room. Pair this rainforest wallpaper with warm timber, woven textures, linen bedding and brass accents for a refined, boutique-hotel look.
Featured: Banana Garden, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #14: Garden Bloom, Mural Wallpaper
Garden Bloom brings a gentle, painterly side to rainforest wallpaper, with expansive hand-painted watercolour leaves by Pearlyn and Paper. Monstera and tropical leaves drift across a pale background in soft greens, creating a calm accent wall that never feels heavy. Its subtlety means it sits easily alongside your favourite furniture, from a rattan headboard in a Scandinavian bedroom to a minimal boho living room or a gender-neutral nursery. It's also lovely in home offices and kitchens where you want a quiet touch of nature.
Featured: Garden Bloom, Mural Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #15: Banana Leaves, Tropical Pattern Wallpaper
For a bold yet timeless look, Banana Leaves layers lush, oversized banana foliage in rich greens with subtle shading that feels almost photographic. The structured repeat keeps this rainforest wallpaper polished and cohesive, so it works as a dramatic feature wall or wrapped around a whole room. It's especially striking in a modern dining room or kitchen alongside matte black finishes, marble and warm wood, where it creates a resort-inspired mood. It's also a stylish fit for living rooms, bedrooms and home offices.
Featured: Banana Leaves, Tropical Pattern Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #16: Jungle Land, Mural Wallpaper
Jungle Land is ideal if you love the idea of a faraway landscape stretching across your wall. Layers of tropical trees, palms and lush undergrowth recede into the distance, with exotic wildlife waiting to be discovered beneath the canopy. That sense of depth makes this rainforest wallpaper feel calm and expansive behind a low sofa, turning a living room into a peaceful retreat. It suits sophisticated adult and teen spaces, bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms too, in Forest Green, Stratos Grey, Light Grey and Dark Grey.
Featured: Jungle Land, Mural Wallpaper
Rainforest Wallpaper #17: Leaf Love, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
For a simple, striking focal point, Leaf Love lets a few oversized palm fronds do all the work. Broad, feathery leaves in layered shades of green sweep in from the corner of the wall, leaving plenty of pale space so the room still feels open and airy. This rainforest wallpaper pairs beautifully with leather and rattan, and a pair of low lounge chairs is all you need to finish the look. It works in living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, kitchens and even bathrooms.
Featured: Leaf Love, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Should You Choose Rainforest Pattern Or Mural Wallpaper?
It comes down to your wall. A pattern repeats across every drop, so it can wrap around doors, windows and corners. A mural is a single scene printed to the size of one wall, which gives rainforest wallpaper its full sense of depth.
Rainforest Pattern Wallpaper
Choose a pattern if your wall is broken up by windows, doors or a radiator, or if you'd like to paper more than one wall. Because the design repeats, every interruption still looks intentional, and the rainforest reads as a rich all-over texture rather than a single view. Moa is a lovely example, with monkeys swinging through palm trees alongside turtles, peacocks and tropical flowers, so there's always something new to spot at eye level. Patterns are also easier to live with over time: if a drop gets damaged years later, a replacement will still line up with its neighbours. Order one spare roll with your first order and store it flat, because colour can shift slightly between print runs.
Featured: Moa, Tropical Pattern Wallpaper
Rainforest Mural Wallpaper
If you want your rainforest wallpaper to feel like a view through a window, a mural is the way to go. Misty Jungle shows a rolling canopy of rainforest trees disappearing into low cloud, and that sense of distance only works when the scene runs uninterrupted across one wall. Pick a wall you can take in at a glance, ideally without a doorway cutting through it. Measure the width and height in three places each and order to the largest figure, since very few walls are perfectly square and the excess is trimmed during installation. Then check where the most interesting part of the scene lands: anything you want to see should sit above about 85cm behind a sofa or 110cm behind a headboard.
Featured: Misty Jungle, Landscape Mural Wallpaper
Light Or Dark Rainforest Wallpaper: Which Suits Your Space?
Let the light in your room decide, rather than its size. Light rainforest wallpaper suits rooms you use mostly in daylight and spaces where you want nature as a soft backdrop. Dark designs come into their own in rooms you use in the evening, where deep tones feel cosy rather than gloomy.
Light Rainforest Wallpaper
A pale rainforest wallpaper pushes the walls back and keeps a room feeling fresh, which is ideal for kitchens, breakfast nooks and north-facing rooms that need every bit of light. Window View frames lush tropical plants behind tall steel-style window panes on a soft beige ground, so the greenery reads like a garden just outside. To keep a light scheme looking deliberate, add one darker element nearby, such as a timber table, black window hardware or a deep green plant pot, otherwise the room can start to feel washed out. Paint the surrounding walls in the beige from the mural rather than brilliant white, which looks cold and slightly blue beside warm neutrals.
Featured: Window View, Tropical Mural Wallpaper
Dark Rainforest Wallpaper
Dark rainforest wallpaper is less risky than it sounds, and it does its best work in rooms you use after sunset. Golden Mirage layers overhanging palm fronds, tropical fruits and exotic birds in a bold block-print style on a deep black ground, creating a cinematic, cocooning atmosphere in a dining room or snug. For full drama, continue it across the ceiling as well, which blurs the edges of the room and makes it feel intentionally enveloping rather than small. Light it with two or three lamps at different heights using 2700K bulbs, and keep the furniture in warm stone or oatmeal so it stands out against the dark walls. It also comes in Blue, Red and Teal.
Featured: Golden Mirage, Tropical Pattern Wallpaper
How Do You Style Rainforest Wallpaper Without Overwhelming A Room?
Treat rainforest wallpaper as the main feature and edit everything around it. Keep the canopy visible, borrow one colour from the design, light the wall carefully, and match the scale of the leaves to the size of your room.
Keep The Canopy Visible
The most interesting part of a rainforest scene is usually the upper half, where the canopy and palms fan out, so avoid blocking it. A tall bookcase or wardrobe against the mural wall cuts the design off exactly where it should carry your eye upward. Low furniture is the answer: sofas, sideboards and benches under about 85cm leave the scene intact. If you're papering just one wall, choose one that ends at a natural break, such as a door frame or chimney breast, so the design doesn't stop awkwardly at an open corner.
Borrow One Colour From The Design
Rainforest wallpaper usually carries several greens plus an accent, perhaps a blush flower, an orange tiger or a coral bloom. Pick just one of those accents and repeat it two or three times around the room in cushions, a throw or a vase, so the scheme feels connected rather than busy. Paint the remaining walls, skirting and architrave in the palest tone from the wallpaper instead of brilliant white. It makes the mural look like it belongs to the room, and it avoids the harsh line where a bright white wall meets a soft green design.
Light The Wall Carefully
Downlights placed close to a mural wall throw bright scallops of light across the design and flatten its depth, so position ceiling lights at least 60cm away from the wall or use lamps instead. Warm bulbs around 2700K keep greens looking lush in the evening, while cooler bulbs above about 3000K can make them read grey. Before you order, tape a sample to the wall for two days and look at it in morning and evening light, because greens shift more than most colours as daylight changes.
Match The Scale To Your Room
In a small room, larger leaves often feel calmer than busy, small-scale foliage, because a few big shapes read clearly from across the space, while tiny repeating leaves can start to look like visual noise. A pale ground opens up a compact bedroom or study, and papering one feature wall is usually enough. The exception is a powder room or cloakroom: you don't spend long there, so a dark, dense rainforest wallpaper wrapped around all four walls can turn the smallest room in the house into the most memorable.
Choosing The Perfect Rainforest Wallpaper For Your Home
The best rainforest wallpaper is one that reflects your love of nature while suiting the light, size and everyday use of your room. Whether you're drawn to misty canopies, dark and moody foliage, sketched vintage leaves or scenes full of tigers, toucans and monkeys, a thoughtfully chosen design can turn any space into one of the most memorable rooms in your home. Finish the look with warm lighting, natural textures like rattan and linen, and a few real plants whose leaf shapes echo the wall, to create a space that feels both practical and beautifully designed.
Ready to start your project? Explore our full collection of tropical wallpaper to discover made-to-measure designs for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms and kids' rooms, or browse our green wallpaper for more ways to bring nature indoors.
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Choose the Right Wallpaper Material
Whether you’re decorating your forever home, updating a rental property, or refreshing a single feature wall, choosing the right wallpaper material can make all the difference. At Hello Circus, every wallpaper design is available in three premium materials, so you can select the option that best suits your space, installation preferences, and lifestyle.
- Non-Woven Matte Wallpaper: Our most popular choice, featuring a smooth, non-reflective finish that creates a beautifully soft look. Durable, breathable, and easy to install using the paste-the-wall method, it’s ideal for most residential interiors.
- Heavy Duty Textured Vinyl Wallpaper: Designed for busy households and commercial spaces, this premium textured finish offers added durability and a luxurious tactile feel. It’s perfect for high-traffic areas where extra resilience is required.
- Peel and Stick Wallpaper: A self-adhesive option that makes decorating quick and convenient. Ideal for renters, DIY enthusiasts, or anyone who prefers a paste-free installation, peel and stick wallpaper allows you to refresh your walls with minimal fuss while enjoying the same beautiful Hello Circus designs.
Whichever material you choose, every wallpaper is custom-made to your wall’s exact dimensions using high-quality printing and vibrant, colour-rich inks, ensuring a beautiful finish that’s made to last.
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How to Calculate How Much Wallpaper You Need?
Before purchasing, it’s important to measure your wall accurately to avoid over- or under-ordering. Here’s a simple way to get started:
- Measure the width of the wall from edge to edge.
- Measure the height from floor to ceiling.
- Allow for extra, around 10cm, to account for trimming and pattern matching.
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Why Choose Hello Circus Wallpaper?
What makes our wallpapers different? Every Hello Circus wallpaper is made to order using premium materials designed to deliver exceptional quality, durability, and beautiful colour reproduction.
- Premium quality: Printed in Europe on durable non-woven paper, our wallpapers are reinforced with nylon fibres to stay smooth, strong, and long-lasting.
- Matte and non-reflective: Our non-woven wallpapers are coated with a soft, non-reflective matte finish that brings warmth and elegance to your space without harsh glare.
- Safe and non-toxic: We use VOC-free inks and PVC-free, breathable paper, so you can create a beautiful home without worrying about harmful chemicals, which is especially important for little ones.
- Antimicrobial protection: Helps prevent the growth of mould, mildew, and bacteria, keeping your walls cleaner and fresher for longer.
- Wallpaper washability: All our wallpapers are washable, meaning everyday dirt and water stains can be wiped away using a damp cloth or sponge.
- Resistant to colour fading: Designed with colourfast technology to keep your wallpaper vibrant and rich over time.
- Fire resilient: Our wallpapers meet European fire safety standards (EN ISO 11925-2), providing an extra layer of reassurance for your home.
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