answer:Personally, I think wallpaper is always wrong. This highly textured wallpaper/wall decoration is even worse to me – I can appreciate it in a period drama or a museum, but I would find it too depressing to live in. There’s a stuffiness and a pretentiousness to it that I can’t stand. Also consider that it tends to darken a room (especially once the dust starts to settle), and will inevitably clash with anything you’d like to hang on your wall (unless you plan to re-frame all your pictures). So, if you have art to hang… I wouldn’t do this. I do like the wainscoting in the last photo – I have a fair bit of this around my home, and it offers more flexibility in terms of colour and picture-hanging options. If you get the colour wrong the first time, you can change it easily. My choice would be to go for something like this, so that you have the texture you seem to want, and choose from a palette of historical colours, which will give you the classical feel that you like. And all that being said… these are my tastes, not yours. Be sure whatever you choose will make you happy – not just on the page, but in your home. There can be a huge difference between what looks good in a photograph and what looks good in your own home, which is full of your own furnishings.