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In-depth guides and practical articles on designer wallcoverings.

• The Carmel cottage and the walls that suit it Carmel-by-the-Sea grew up as a village of small storybook cottages. That scale, and the builder who set the town's tone in the 1920s, still shape what belongs on the walls.
• A coastal-neutral palette that survives the Monterey fog The light on the Monterey Peninsula is soft, cool, and often foggy for months at a stretch. The wall colors that hold up in it are not the bright whites a sunnier coast would pick.
• Grasscloth and sisal on the coast: beauty and the humidity problem Natural-fiber wallpaper is the signature coastal wall, and it is genuinely lovely near the water. It also has real limits in salt air and humidity that are worth knowing before you order.
• Carmel's art tradition, brought onto the wall This has been an artists' town for more than a century. That plein-air, landscape-loving heritage points toward specific kinds of pattern and imagery for a room here.
• Reflecting the Coast: Wallcoverings Inspired by Carmel's Light and Landscape