play with wallpaper This is the recipe for maintaining the leadership position it has gained year after year, establishing itself as the leading all-round carpet specialist in Italy and Europe.
Olivo covers the entire carpet world and follows each market segment through its divisions Olivo Tappeti, Olivo Pro e Platinum Custom Rugs.

To date, the company is considered the most reliable partner for distributors, retailers and interior design professionals working in the home sector, and it is with them and all its collaborators that Olivo Tappeti today celebrates with pride and immense joy this first great stretch of road travelled, which it does not consider a finishing line, but only the continuation of a story that began 40 years ago.

It was, in fact, 1982 when Cav. Marcello Olivo took his first steps in the home carpet business, with a great desire to do business and a good dose of intuition. A dream that came true and later evolved with the entry of his sons Matteo and Francesco into the company in 1992 and 1997.
An evolution in terms of turnover, cubic metres of warehouse space, conquest of foreign markets and technology and innovation in the logistics and commercial sectors.
Since 2002, his wife Valeria's signature has appeared on all carpets, another fundamental part of Olivo Tappeti's history. The Olivo family Once upon a time, there was wallpaper.
And it is still there, but in a new guise, rediscovered some time ago as one of the top trends in interior design, and as a solution for particularly creative do-it-yourself.
The idea of wallpaper immediately brings to mind the house of our grandparents, the 1960s and 1970s, when all the walls of the ’good living room’ were covered, but also the inside of wardrobes and chests of drawers.
The patterns were large damask motifs, precisely because wallpaper was intended as a popular replica of the rooms of aristocratic palaces, historically dressed in rich brocades. In the rooms and bedrooms, the patterns became small, flowery, in pastel colours.
 

Revisited in a contemporary key

 
Today, wallpaper, in its second youth, is being revisited, focusing on the undoubtedly scenic effect that this element can give to an important room, but also to accessory rooms, which immediately acquire new dignity.
Freed from the constraints of tradition, wallpaper designers wink at frescos, painting, photography and graphics; aided by recent printing techniques, they offer full-wall murals, geometric motifs or free compositions where imagination really is the limit.
The only general rule that can be inferred from the market proposals is the use of paper on a single wall, in a corner or in a section of the wall, where one's gaze and attention will be drawn.
Everything else around is destined to become secondary. In other cases, however, the other elements of the interior design will be illuminated and brought into relief by the decorated background.
The wallpaper is offered in alternation with plain-coloured parts, which can be created with traditional wall paints, with spatulas, with other monochrome wallpaper, or with other surfaces (such as doors or cupboards). floral design definitely among the trends of the year

Online, in search of ideas

If we are thinking of using wallpaper, an inevitable step will be a online, for inspiration, to pick up ideas that we can bring into our own house, but also to find the best suppliers, even outside our own country.
There are several international sites where rolls can be purchased, ensuring a kind of exclusivity of our most original choices.
Often, then, our transformed home will come back online, on our social networks.
Thanks to wallpaper, even the most anonymous rooms will become “Instagrammable”, and we will not resist the temptation to show the world our works, or the style choices we will have made. we also dare in the kitchen

Trends 2022

 

If you want to follow the dictates of fashion, there are also two major trends for wallpaper: the 60s and 70s revival (large geometries, intense colour palettes with brown, mustard, orange and blue) and the botanical, with compositions of large leaves, in declinations ranging from tropical to forest, to flowering details and the animal theme (with parrots and monkeys peeking out here and there from the plants).
 
Actually, one should talk more about the mood intended to give the room where we will use the wallpaper, to transform its character.
The manufacturers offer thematic cues for all tastes and colour preferences.
One finds decorations replicating antique brocades or frescoed walls, and even those ruined by time or in an “industrial” style; one can resort to graphics and photography, with enlargements and spectacular panoramas, up to the fashion of “Jap”, or oriental themes and fantasies, from large herons to bamboo reeds, and even the suggestive and refined Han lettering.

Restyling

 

In the successful season of restyling old - not necessarily antique - furniture, wallpaper finds another reason for success.
Sideboards and cupboards are experiencing a second youth after interventions on the wood with colour, usually in unusual shades, and the subsequent combination with wallpapers for the details, or for the interior.
Here, too, the rule is colour harmony and the interplay between solid and patterned colours.
With doors and drawers, there is also the surprise effect, because the preciousness of the paper will only be discovered when the doors are opened. also for an industrial style

Wallpaper and carpets for the home. Which carpet to match?

 

An “important” wall must remain the predominant element, and all other interior design accessories must be used to emphasise its beauty.
For everything textile you will choose solid colours, or at most melange colours, matching the wall.
It can be the same background tone as the chosen pattern, or a detail or contrast that enhances its expressiveness.
In general, from what can be seen in the market offerings, carpets with intricate or multi-coloured patterns are to be avoided, so as not to create a redundant pile effect that could be oppressive in the room (unless one aims to create an excess of baroque or gypsy taste). The rule of style is to have one strong element, and the others in hierarchy, in order to give the wall the right prominence.
That is why we recommend our carpets by Olivo Tappeti of collections “Trend” and “Opera 2”. TREND red carpet by Olivo Tappeti

Not just living room

 

Wallpaper in the bathroom is decidedly original, and precisely for this reason it is a style idea that tickles, because it leads to truly endless creative and extraordinarily glamorous possibilities.
In small rooms, the touch of a wallpaper stands out and impresses even more. A minimalist bathroom could turn into a real gem.
Working in a humid environment, however, requires some practical precautions (with interesting style implications).
The first is to use ceramic wall coverings for the areas most exposed to water, such as behind a tap or near the shower; you can then reserve the lower part of the wall for tiles or other materials, such as wood, achieving beautiful combinations with wallpaper.
Finally, one can focus on varnishes (glossy to matt), to be applied over the paper to ensure durability and impermeability to surfaces that thus become easily washable.
For this type of solution, it is best to seek advice from a retailer specialising in paints, colours and DIY materials.

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