Many wallpaper companies print on demand and thus honor exchanges but not returns—so samples are a must-have. Wallpaper samples on the writer’s wall. Foreground, from left: Livette’s ...

This sample library offers interesting wallpapers that even let you play around when using the mouse on the desktop, including an interactive periodic table, Matrix effect, and Fluids, for example.

It contains just under a hundred wallpaper samples, each of which is saturated with potentially dangerous levels of arsenic.

which seamlessly zooms into your desktop. To find them all once you’re running Sonoma, head over to the Wallpaper tab in System Settings. Here’s a sample of the new wallpapers–but keep in ...

Ellie Sheales, 25, from Caithness, Scotland, upcycled a batch of wallpaper samples to make a unique patchwork wall - and you could easily do the same. Just make sure you stick to the rules about ...