When Ryia Jose embellished her daughters’ bed room, she felt there was just one solution to strategy a room with a slanted ceiling: Cowl it in wallpaper, the ceiling included.

Doing so helped “with all of the bizarre angles,” mentioned Ms. Jose, a D.I.Y.-er and inside decorator in Houston. “It provides to the quirkiness of it.”

Ms. Jose, 38, designed a customized sample by way of the detachable wallpaper model Loomwell. It has a blush and inexperienced floral block print harking back to the patterns she grew up with in India.

Wallpaper has made its approach again into houses lately as shoppers proceed eschew minimalist aesthetics in favor of maximalist décor. And now, wallpaper is climbing its approach as much as the ceiling not solely in children’ bedrooms however in house libraries and boutique resort rooms, too.

It’s a shift from latest years, when many thought-about wallpaper cumbersome. When Jennifer Matthews helped discovered Tempaper in 2008, “nobody needed something to do with wallpaper,” she mentioned, as a result of it was seen as a pricey — to not point out laborious and long-term — funding.

However pricing has turn into extra aggressive, and D.I.Y. jobs can price lower than $1,000. Folks have additionally caught on to how comparatively low-stakes the choice may be because of peel-and-stick wallpaper. And so extra prospects are keen to make use of it in locations they beforehand wouldn’t — just like the ceiling. “You don’t really feel like in case you make a mistake, it’s everlasting,” Ms. Matthews mentioned.

In Atlanta, the inside designer Kristen Fountain Wilson makes use of peel-and-stick wallpaper and is drawn to “actually graphic, daring papers.” Calling it “wallpaper” is nearly a misnomer in her case — when she makes use of the product, it’s nearly solely for ceilings. She mentioned the ceiling gave it a spot to “shine.”

Her shoppers are typically involved {that a} wallpapered ceiling will make a room really feel smaller, however Ms. Fountain Wilson mentioned that botanical and floral wallpapers with gentle backgrounds had the alternative impact: “It opens the house up just a little bit extra,” she mentioned.

Wallpaper on the ceiling also can create a mural-like impact. Kiki Slaughter, an artist in Richmond, Va., began promoting wallpaper in September and found that folks have been drawn to her “painterly and summary” wall coverings as a result of they’re “actually artwork in your partitions,” she mentioned.

Her wallpapers are available in a spread of colours, together with vibrant reds and delicate pinks, and have names like “Scribble” or “Doodles,” describing Ms. Slaughter’s brushstrokes. “You possibly can inform the place my brushstrokes are,” Ms. Slaughter mentioned. “It looks like I painted your wall or your ceiling.” She added that her hottest wallpaper for ceilings to this point has been “Doodles” as a result of it’s nondirectional and provides an additional dimension to the room.

Dwellers have tried so as to add this additional dimension although ceiling décor on and off all through the centuries. Properties within the late 1800s might need had as many as 5 totally different wallpapers on the ceiling at onetime, mentioned Bo Sullivan, an architectural historian and a founding father of the vintage wallpaper retailer Bolling & Firm. Probably the most elaborate ceilings might need a middle fill, perimeter fill, a ceiling border, particular nook items and perhaps heart medallion prints, too.

Intricate ceilings peaked throughout the Aesthetic Motion, which emerged from England within the late 1800s, he mentioned. The motion was meant to be a departure from the stark ugliness of the Industrial Age. The homes of that period, even these of the center class, have been typically embellished from prime to backside.

“The wallpaper was sort of like an outfit for the room,” mentioned Mr. Sullivan, who lives in Portland, Ore. “And with out a wallpaper, it’s just a little bit bare.” Ceilings continued to be papered previous the flip of the century, typically with only one sample, till the Fifties and the arrival of midcentury modernism.

Wallpaper was primarily about contributing to an area’s general magnificence. Manufacturers like William Morris and Howell & Brothers produced wallpapers that have been naturalistic and demure, that includes botanical and floral patterns.

“Now, it’s way more about assertion making,” Mr. Sullivan mentioned. “And in some instances, novelty.” Novelty has at all times performed a task in wallpaper, he mentioned, however, “as the sweetness focus has gone down, the novelty and assertion aspect has gone up.”

For Sasha Bikoff, an inside designer primarily based in New York, her self-described “obsession” with overlaying each floor in a room started when she attended school in Paris in 2009. There, patterns and materials have been used unabashedly on partitions and ceilings; in america, she discovered, folks will put a rug on the ground and embellish the partitions however go away the ceiling naked.

“I at all times felt that with a view to obtain actually feeling such as you’re in a jewel field, you had to consider all surfaces, that means the flooring, the ceilings and the partitions,” mentioned Ms. Bikoff, 35, who now lives in Manhattan.

She has put wallpaper on the ceilings of her residential and industrial initiatives, together with the bogs of the not too long ago opened Flex Mussels, a restaurant on the Higher East Aspect.

In a visitor bed room of her East Hampton house, Ms. Bikoff, wrapped the partitions and ceiling in a wallpaper with a blue and white sea motif of starfish, seaweed and fish.

The concept is to lie down in mattress and really feel enveloped, Ms. Bikoff mentioned: “You’re feeling such as you’re in a cocoon.”