Underground Animal Burrows Wallpaper

This woodland animal wallpaper is a cross-section of a whole village living under the roots. Follow the tunnels and every burrow turns out to be someone’s home, lit by a small lamp or a lantern.

A woodland animal wallpaper that tells a story

A mouse in an apron stirs a pot on her little stove. A rabbit is curled up in an armchair with a book. A hedgehog is having a bubble bath in a tin tub, and a squirrel carries a basket of nuts up a wooden ladder.

Children read a wall like this the way they read a picture book, finding one more detail every bedtime, which is why it holds up for years rather than months.

What you will find in the pattern

Between the rooms are pantries lined with jam jars and seed sacks, root cellars stacked with carrots and potatoes, and bedrooms with acorn-carved beds and patchwork quilts.

Bunches of herbs and mushrooms hang to dry, a mole in a cap digs on with his lantern and pick, and beetles and earthworms go about their business in the soil between the tree roots.

Where this woodland animal wallpaper works best

It is made for nurseries, kids’ rooms, playrooms and reading corners, where there is time to look at it properly.

It also suits a family hallway or a playroom wall behind a bookcase, and it works on all four walls of a small room because the colours stay warm and light.

For a reading nook it is close to perfect: the rabbit with the book sets the tone for the whole corner.

Colours and scale

The palette of this woodland animal wallpaper is warm sand and ochre with soft green, which pairs easily with natural wood, cream bedding and rattan baskets.

The burrows are drawn at storybook scale, large enough for a toddler to recognise from the bed and detailed enough for an older child to explore.

Kids’ rooms change more often than any other room in the house, which is why peel and stick is the usual choice here: it comes away cleanly when tastes move on from burrows to something else.

Both materials print the same colours and are PVC-free, so if the room is unlikely to change for a decade, traditional paper is a perfectly good option too.

How to style it

Styling a woodland animal wallpaper is mostly about restraint. Keep the furniture simple and let the wall be the story. Light oak, woven baskets and plain linen all sit well against the sand ground.

For accents, pull colours from the pattern: the carrot orange of the root cellar, the soft green of the herbs or the warm grey of the mole.

Peel & Stick

Our Peel & Stick wallpaper is printed on a 340 g/m² heavyweight polyester textile with a built-in self-adhesive backing — no paste, no mess. It goes up easily, repositions without damage, and comes down cleanly whenever you’re ready for a change. PVC-free, B1/M1 fire rated, and safe for nurseries. Perfect for renters, first-time installers, or anyone who loves refreshing their space without long-term commitment.

Traditional

Our Premium Traditional wallpaper is printed on a 175 g/m² non-woven paper with a semi-glossy finish, applied with standard wallpaper paste directly to the wall. The result is a seamless, professionally installed look built to last 10+ years. PVC-free and B1 fire rated. Ideal for permanent installations, high-traffic areas, and anyone looking for a refined, long-term result.

Sizes, samples and installation

Every design is printed to order in 24-inch-wide panels, in heights from 76 to 124 inches, and ships in 2–5 business days with free shipping to the US and EU.

Not sure how many panels of this woodland animal wallpaper you need? Our measuring guide walks you through it, and our material comparison guide explains peel and stick versus traditional.

Colour on screen is never exact, so before papering a whole wall we recommend ordering a sample of this woodland animal wallpaper: choose the 7×7″ or 24×24″ sample in the Size menu above.

More designs like this

If this woodland animal wallpaper is not quite the one, there is plenty more in the same spirit. For more designs with animals in them, see our Whimsical & Animals collection, or browse the full Kids & Nursery collection.