A24 sells the Backrooms wallpaper itself. Not a poster of it — the wallpaper. A 12×17-inch sample is $12, and full self-adhesive panels run $60 to $161 depending on height, from A24's own shop. This is the rare case where the studio skipped the merchandise middle step and just put the set dressing on sale.
That makes the identification part of this page very short, because the seller is the studio. The longer questions are the interesting ones: what exactly you are buying, how much wall it covers, whether it is worth it against ordinary yellow wallpaper — and why a pattern this deliberately boring became something people want on their walls.
What it is
The film's whole visual premise is the "Backrooms" of internet legend: an endless, empty office space in a sickly mono-yellow, damp carpet, humming fluorescent light — the look that a generation online calls a liminal space. It started as a viral creepypasta image, became Kane Parsons' YouTube series, and A24 turned it into a feature released in 2026.
The wallpaper is the star of that set in a way that is almost never true of a film. There is no costume to buy, no watch, no handbag. The environment is the character — so the environment is the merchandise.
Production designer Danny Vermette has talked about the build in craft interviews — the Motion Picture Association's feature on how the sets were made practical rather than digital is the best account. The sets were constructed for real, which is exactly why the pattern exists as a printable, buyable thing.
What A24 actually sells
Read from A24's shop on 9 August 2026:
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Sample, 12 × 17 in | $12 |
| Full panel, shortest height | $60 |
| Full panel, tallest height | $161 |
The details that matter before you order:
- Panels are 30 inches wide and priced by height — you buy panels to match your wall, not rolls.
- It is self-adhesive — peel-and-stick, which means it goes up without paste and comes off a rental wall without a deposit argument.
- The shop has a room calculator on the product page, so you enter your wall dimensions and it tells you the panel count. Use it rather than guessing; a wide wall in 30-inch panels adds up faster than people expect.
- There is also a sample page — and for once we would genuinely recommend starting there, for reasons below.
Nerdist covered the drop when it launched, which is worth noting only because it confirms this is a real official product and not one of the dozens of unofficial "Backrooms yellow" prints that have circulated on print-on-demand sites for years.
Is it the actual wallpaper from the film?
It is the official pattern, sold by the studio that made the film. That is as close to "the actual wallpaper" as a buyable product gets.
One honest nuance: what made the Backrooms sets read as wrong on screen was never just the pattern. It was the combination — that pattern, under flat fluorescent light, over damp commercial carpet, in rooms with no windows and no furniture. A24 can sell you one ingredient of that recipe. The unease is a group effort.
Which is exactly why we suggest the $12 sample first. On your wall, in daylight, next to your bookshelf, this pattern may simply read as retro yellow office wallpaper — because that is what it is. The sample tells you whether you are buying an atmosphere or a colour.
The cost, honestly
Cover a single 12ft × 9ft feature wall and you are buying roughly five 30-inch panels at full height. At the tall-panel price, that is in the region of $700–$800 before shipping. This is not a cheap novelty; it is boutique-wallpaper money for a pattern whose entire artistic point is that it looks like it cost nothing in 1987.
Whether that is absurd or perfect is genuinely a matter of taste. We would only say: know which one you are paying for. You are not paying for printing quality that ordinary wallpaper lacks. You are paying for it being the pattern, from the studio, with the provenance — the same reason a plain Nike shirt with a fictional football crest costs $100.
The cheap way to fake it
If you want the liminal-office feeling rather than the licensed pattern:
- Any retro mustard-yellow geometric wallpaper gets you most of the way. Generic peel-and-stick in that family runs $30–$40 a roll from the usual home stores — a fraction of the per-square-foot cost.
- The light does more than the paper. The Backrooms look is flat, shadowless, slightly green-tinged fluorescent light. A cheap 4000K–5000K LED batten fixture sells for under $30 and does more for the effect than any wallpaper.
- Emptiness is free. The sets are frightening because nothing is in them. A yellow accent wall behind a sofa and framed prints is cosy, not liminal. If you are doing this for a media room, hallway or party wall, commit to the bareness.
The honest summary: the official panels are for fans who want the real pattern; the look itself can be faked for under $70. Both are legitimate purchases. They are just different purchases.
Hanging it without ruining the effect
Two practical notes, because peel-and-stick punishes carelessness more than pasted paper does.
Prep matters more than skill. Self-adhesive vinyl needs a clean, dry, matte wall. It will not hold on fresh paint that has cured for less than three weeks, and it lifts at the edges on textured or semi-gloss surfaces. Wipe the wall down, let it dry fully, and start from a plumb line rather than the corner — walls are rarely square, and a 30-inch panel makes that obvious fast.
Pattern alignment is the whole job. This design's repeat is regular, which is good news for matching and bad news for mistakes: a panel hung a centimetre off registers immediately because the eye tracks the grid. Overlap-and-trim beats butt-joining if you are doing this alone.
Where you can and cannot get it
- A24's shop is the only official source. The studio sells directly.
- Shipping: A24's shop ships from the US. If you are ordering from outside the US, check the landed cost at checkout before committing to multiple panels — wallpaper is bulky, and international shipping on a multi-panel order can rival the product price. We could not verify specific international rates, so treat that as a check-before-buying item rather than a known number.
- The unofficial prints on marketplace and print-on-demand sites predate the film and are not the same pattern. Some are close. None are official, and quality varies wildly.
FAQ
Can you buy the wallpaper from The Backrooms? Yes — A24 sells it directly through its own shop. A 12×17-inch sample is $12 and full self-adhesive panels run $60 to $161 depending on height.
Is it the exact pattern from the film? It is the official pattern sold by the studio that made the film. The on-screen effect also depended on fluorescent lighting, carpet and empty rooms, so the paper alone will not make your living room look haunted.
Is it peel-and-stick or traditional paste? Self-adhesive peel-and-stick, in 30-inch-wide panels priced by height. That makes it renter-friendly — it removes without wall damage.
How much does a full wall cost? Roughly $700–$800 in panels for a typical 12ft × 9ft feature wall at the tall-panel price. Use the room calculator on A24's product page for your actual dimensions.
Is there a cheaper alternative? Yes. Generic retro mustard-yellow wallpaper at $30–$40 a roll plus a cool-white fluorescent-style fixture under $30 recreates the feeling for under $70. It will not be the official pattern.
Who designed the sets in the film? Production designer Danny Vermette, who built the Backrooms environments practically rather than digitally — which is why the wallpaper exists as a real, printable pattern.
Does A24 sell other set items from the film? The wallpaper and its sample are the set-material items in the shop's Backrooms range. The rest of the range is conventional merchandise.
Why would anyone want this on their wall? The same reason people hang film posters — except this film's poster is its wall. For a media room, hallway or home office with a sense of humour, it is a very specific joke that a very specific person will love completely.