I want to sit in the second kitchen with a cuppa tea...gorgeous! I can't remember ever cooking in a kitchen with wallpaper, but I imagine if the wallpaper wasn't used as a back-splash in 'danger zones' or could be cleaned easily (love me some Mrs. Meyers spray), I wouldn't mind the chance for interesting and beautiful color...

I don't get the appeal of the rusty knives in the seventh one. I guess it looks cool in the photo, but that would be really strange in person.

I love #9, so classy and interesting! A very different look from most kitchens we see, but I find it very appealing.

My favourite was the gold De Gourney wallpaper in a kitchen featured in Domino...

http://styleredux.blogspot.com/2009/05/chinoiserie-walls.html

my parents who love wall paper have wall paper in their kitchen. so long as there is good ventilation and a proper splash back it isn't really an issue. having a good quality paper that you can easily clean no doubt helps too.

My childhood house c1906 had wallpaper in the kitchen. I never thought twice about it.

Two and seven. I can't choose which of those is my favorite! Two looks like beautiful wrapping paper and really makes the kitchen shine.

Wow, MSCHATELAINE, that is some knockout wallpaper!

I absolutely concur. Wallpaper in the kitchen is cheerful and homey. I say add a tile backsplash or discreetly-fitted plexiglass over the trouble spots rather than giving up your dreams of a wallpapered kitchen. Or paint faux wallpaper, as I have done in many a fugly rental kitchen. Yay, color and pattern!

In my kitchen I used the same but black background version of the wallpaper found in kitchen #3 of this article. I am quite happy with the result.

My Kitchen Wallpaper on Flickr

Kitchens are busy enough without the added visual texture. But a lot would depend on how it's placed and what the overall space is like. (I lived with a wallpapered studio apartment kitchen space. It was sailboats. It still gives me nightmares.)

I'm not familiar with wallpaper per se in the kitchen, but many homes I visited in my youth had a vinyl wall coverings, like Sanitas® (now Koroseal). I remember going to a NYC suburb in NJ in the 1980s where the homeowner was remodeling and being stunned that they were covering the ceiling (of all places! harumph!) with the brightly patterned stuff. I supposed that was high class, myself being from a painted, glossy-finish yellow kitchen with white ceiling class of people.

However, when I owned my own home, I found that a vinyl-type wall covering with a small pattern was cozy and cheery on the walls of my kitchen (but not on the ceiling). It was easy to maintain, but in retrospect, I'd suggest a splash guard around the stove and perhaps tiles in the sink area.

I love the idea of wallpaper in the kitchen-- It's one of the few places, I feel, that it's more than acceptable to have it be FUN rather than serious.

That said, the only problem I have is that the 9th picture reminds me of the film Garden State, when Zach Braff puts on that shirt that matches the wallpaper. I think it's just the pattern itself, though, and not the fact that it's wallpaper.

When I was a really little kid in the 70s, our kitchen had this ridiculous owl wallpaper. They were just "pencil drawings" of owls on a yellow background. My mom loved it and she always used to say it would come back in style again and had she left it up, she'd have had that last laugh. Well, folks. I just saw something incredibly similar in two design magazines and also for sale at Anthropologie. As for functionality, if you can get one that wipes clean and isn't so delicate it's going to rip or stain, why not go for it?