diff --git a/src/qml/RoomPage.qml b/src/qml/RoomPage.qml
index fdce1a171..11174947a 100644
--- a/src/qml/RoomPage.qml
+++ b/src/qml/RoomPage.qml
@@ -163,6 +163,15 @@ Kirigami.Page {
         Kirigami.Theme.colorSet: Kirigami.Theme.View
         Kirigami.Theme.inherit: false
         color: NeoChatConfig.compactLayout ? Kirigami.Theme.backgroundColor : "transparent"
+
+        Image {
+            visible: !NeoChatConfig.compactLayout && !NeoChatConfig.blur
+            source: "qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/neochat/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg"
+            anchors.fill: parent
+            fillMode: Image.Tile
+            horizontalAlignment: Image.AlignLeft
+            verticalAlignment: Image.AlignTop
+        }
     }
 
     footer: Loader {
diff --git a/src/timeline/CMakeLists.txt b/src/timeline/CMakeLists.txt
index 001307bfa..200e361f1 100644
--- a/src/timeline/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/timeline/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ ecm_add_qml_module(timeline GENERATE_PLUGIN_SOURCE
         images/transfer.svg
         images/wait.svg
         images/walk.svg
+        images/chat-page-background.svg
     DEPENDENCIES
         QtQuick
 )
diff --git a/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg b/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..875b3144a
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+++ b/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg
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diff --git a/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg.license b/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg.license
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..73a5d3607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/timeline/images/chat-page-background.svg.license
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Raghavendra Kamath <raghu@raghukamath.com>
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0