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hey might appear as simple botanical prints, but look a little closer and you’ll notice cocaine, tobacco and hops plants dotted amongst them. And that pretty patterned wallpaper? Lean). He’s also been asked to recreate wallpaper for the West Coast’s Ōkārito general store from a piece of salvaged 1900s wallpaper, and has designed and printed 30 rolls of wallpaper for a cottage in Foxton where the owners had unearthed a scrap of the original 1872 paper. New Zealanders are moving away from painted white interiors, says Masters. “People have been focused on adding more depth, character and layering into their homes, and letting their spaces reflect their own personality, which is something wallpaper does.”