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Wallpapering

Wallpaper rewards precision more than almost any other finish — a seam out by a millimetre is the difference between a feature wall and a flaw. Every material, from classic paper to commercial-grade metallic mylar, is installed to the same exacting standard, whether it is one wall or an entire building.

Selected installs

The work on the wall

Gold botanical wallpaper covering the long wall of a living room with a sea view beyond. — **Gold botanical, full wall** — taken to the rake of the ceiling and returned into the window reveal, without a break in the pattern anywhere in the room.

Monochrome ginkgo-leaf wallpaper on a stairwell wall between two white doors. — **Monochrome ginkgo** — a stairwell is the hardest place to hold a pattern. This one runs past two door openings without a stutter.

Pale pink wallpaper patterned with flying cranes across a bedroom feature wall. — **Cranes in flight** — one wall, and the whole room takes on a different character.

Red floral wallpaper across a bedroom feature wall. — **Red floral** — colour used with confidence, a single wall carrying the room.

Silver textured wallcovering behind a white sideboard styled with ceramics. — **Silver texture** — a wallcovering that reads differently as the light moves across it.

A painted forest mural wallpaper in a child's room, with trees, birds and insects. — **Forest mural** — hung as one continuous scene, so the story never meets a seam.

A world map mural made entirely from words, covering a whole wall. — **The world, in words** — a mural built entirely from type, aligned across the full wall.

Closer

Material and method

Choosing the right material for the wall — and then the right method for that material — is as much of the job as the hanging. These three behave nothing alike.

Paper

The traditional material, and the least forgiving. Paste goes onto the paper and it is left to soak, so the fibres expand before it ever reaches the wall. Hang it a few minutes early and the seams open as it dries.

Non-woven

Dimensionally stable — it does not expand, so there is no soaking. The paste goes straight onto the wall and the length is hung dry. Cleaner to work with, and it strips off in whole sheets years later.

Glass fibre

Woven and tough, for walls that have to take punishment. It is hung and then painted, reinforcing the surface as much as decorating it — which is why it turns up in commercial work.

Textured and woven wallcoverings show every fault in the wall behind them, so on those the preparation matters as much as the hang.

Close detail of a woven wallcovering meeting a gold panel. — **Where two materials meet** — the join is the test. Woven against gold, close enough to touch.

A decorator smoothing a length of gold botanical wallpaper onto a wall beside a window with a sea view. — **In the hanging** — every length worked out from the centre, air taken to the edge.