Wallpaper suits Hampstead houses. Victorian and Edwardian rooms were built for pattern, and a good paper can make a tall hallway or a north-facing bedroom feel deliberate rather than dim. It is also the least forgiving job in decorating: a wall that is not sound, a pattern that is a few millimetres out, or a seam that lifts after a month will show every single day.
We look after the whole job — stripping the old paper, making good the plaster and lining where it is needed — then set out the room so the pattern falls where it should: centred on the chimney breast or the window, not wherever the last drop happens to land.
Papers and wallcoverings
We hang traditional and designer papers, bold feature-wall prints, textured and vinyl wallcoverings, and lining paper as a base for paint or paper. Paste-the-wall or paste-the-paper, each is hung the way the manufacturer intended.
Stairwells and awkward rooms
Long drops down a stairwell, sloping ceilings and small rooms full of corners are where paperhanging skill shows. We set up safe access for high walls and plan the order of drops so the pattern runs true all the way down.
Repairs to existing paper
Paper coming away from the wall, a damaged section behind a door, or a room that just needs refreshing around a paper you love — we can repair, re-hang and repaint around it.
What’s included
- Stripping old wallpaper
- Plaster repairs and lining paper
- Feature walls and whole rooms
- Stairwells, halls and landings
- Pattern matching and setting out
- Textured and vinyl wallcoverings
