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<!--
  Empire Wallpaper — galleries / taxonomy index sitemap.

  Lists the breadcrumb-root landing pages that aggregate the editorial
  catalog: gallery hubs (rooms, moods), taxonomy indexes (collections,
  materials, designers), and the master wallpaper / shop entry points.
  These are the pages that anchor BreadcrumbList JSON-LD on every leaf
  product, collection, or profile page, so they need to be crawlable
  before the leaves themselves.

  Leaves under each hub live in sitemap-catalog.xml.

  hreflang: hubs with real FR twins (shop, wallpaper, rooms, materials,
  mood, types) emit the full en-ca / fr-ca / x-default trio and their
  FR twin is listed as its own <url>. Hubs without a FR twin
  (collections, artists, hire-a-designer) emit self-referential
  en-ca + x-default only.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

  <!-- Master shopping / catalog entry points -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/shop</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.95</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/shop"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/boutique"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/shop"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/boutique</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.95</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/shop"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/boutique"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/shop"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/wallpaper</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/wallpaper"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/papier-peint"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/wallpaper"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/papier-peint</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/wallpaper"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/papier-peint"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/wallpaper"/>
  </url>

  <!-- Taxonomy / gallery index hubs -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/collections</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.85</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/collections"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/collections"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/rooms</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.85</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/rooms"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/pieces"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/rooms"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/pieces</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.85</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/rooms"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/pieces"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/rooms"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/materials</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.85</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/materials"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/matieres"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/materials"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/matieres</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.85</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/materials"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/matieres"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/materials"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/moods</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/moods"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/moods"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/types</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/types"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/categories-produit"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/types"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/categories-produit</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/types"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/categories-produit"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/types"/>
  </url>

  <!-- People directories (EN-only) -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/artists</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/artists"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/artists"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/artists/in-residence</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.65</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/artists/in-residence"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/artists/in-residence"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/hire-a-designer</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/hire-a-designer"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/engager-un-designer"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/hire-a-designer"/>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://empirewallpaper.com/engager-un-designer</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/hire-a-designer"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-ca" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/engager-un-designer"/>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://empirewallpaper.com/hire-a-designer"/>
  </url>

</urlset>
