Tour a Brooklyn Home With Wall-to-Wall Wallpaper

For Selin Zalma and Siddhesh Karmali, home is where the fun is. “Most people take life too seriously — my husband and I included,” says Selin. “We wanted our house to remind us to have a good time.”

The couple, who has two young sons, found the perfect blank slate in a newly renovated 1,400-square-foot apartment in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Before they moved in, Selin and Siddhesh called their friend Rozit Arditi, a designer Selin knew growing up in Istanbul. Together, Selin and Rozit spent months poring over wallpaper samples, hunting for ways to liven up the apartment’s stark white walls. “It wasn’t a chore at all — the patterns we looked at were really fun,” says Selin. One by one, they covered each room in an eye-catching print that would make the whole family smile.

The family lives on the top two floors of this 1901 townhouse.

Happy, modern and colorful: This abstract Eskayel wallpaper hit all the right notes for Selin and Siddhesh. They used the print on every wall here and in the dining room, too. A midcentury-style sofa from Article and mismatched armchairs (the teal one is from Anthropologie; the pink is from Room & Board) give the space a lived-in look.

To give the white kitchen personality, Selin and Siddhesh wallpapered right up to the cabinets. They also installed a trio of caged pendants from The Future Perfect over the peninsula and added West Elm barstools. “When I was a kid, people stopped by our house all the time,” says Selin. “This open layout is perfect for that casual way of entertaining.”