Professional Wallpaper Installation Across London
Finding a wallpaper installer in London who you can actually trust — one who turns up when they say they will, prepares the walls properly, and leaves you with a finish you're genuinely pleased with — is harder than it should be. Prima Decor has been providing professional wallpapering services across London for over 12 years, working in homes from Mayfair to Twickenham and commercial interiors throughout the city.
We hang all wallpaper types. Designer hand-printed papers, delicate silk and grasscloth finishes, paste-the-wall panels, vinyl and washable papers — each one needs a different approach, and we know how to handle them. No job is treated as straightforward until we've actually looked at the walls.
Whether you're refreshing a single bedroom with a feature wall or redecorating an entire property, we manage the whole process: survey, surface preparation, removal of old paper if needed, and installation. You can also combine wallpapering with our interior painting service — most of our clients do both on the same visit.
What Wallpaper Installation in London Actually Involves
There's a version of wallpaper installation that skips half the work — paste straight onto unprepared walls, hang it, and move on. The paper lifts within months. That's not how we work.
Every job starts with a proper site survey. We check the walls for damp, cracks, and uneven surfaces before we discuss paper choices. Anything that needs fixing gets fixed first. Then comes surface preparation — filling, sanding, and priming — which is the invisible work that determines whether your wallpaper lasts two years or twenty.
Only after all that do we cut, paste, and hang. Pattern alignment, edge trimming, seam placement — these are the things you notice when they go wrong and don't notice when they go right. We aim for the latter.
What most wallpaper guides skip: paste-the-wall vs paste-the-paper
Newer wallpapers — particularly nonwoven and fabric-backed designs — are hung using a paste-the-wall method rather than traditional paste-the-paper. Using the wrong technique causes bubbling and poor adhesion. We identify the correct method for every paper we hang and won't use paste-the-paper on a paste-the-wall design, even if it takes longer.
Wallpaper Installation Near Me — Areas We Cover in London
Based in Twickenham, we take on wallpapering work across London and the South East. Our regular areas include Richmond, Mayfair, Chelsea, Kensington, Hampstead, Islington, Fulham, Wandsworth, Kingston upon Thames, and Ealing — but we cover all London boroughs. If you're not sure whether we reach your postcode, call us and we'll confirm straight away.
For listed or period properties — which are common across central and south-west London — we have experience working with older plaster walls that need more preparation and care before any paper goes up. We also understand the particular demands of listed building work and can advise on appropriate approaches where relevant.
What happens if you skip proper wall preparation?
Wallpaper installed on poorly prepared walls will fail. Air bubbles appear within days. Seams lift within months. Pattern-matched papers misalign because uneven surfaces prevent lengths from lying flat. Fixing it means stripping everything and starting again — costing more than good preparation would have in the first place. We don't skip it.
Feature Wall vs Full Room Wallpapering — Which is Right for You?
| Option | Best for | Typical scope |
|---|---|---|
| Feature wall | Statement pattern, chimney breast, behind bed or sofa | 1 wall, painted walls alongside |
| Full room wallpaper | Period properties, bold all-over designs | All walls, ceiling sometimes included |
| Partial wallpaper (dado) | Hallways, dining rooms, period styles | Lower half with painted upper, or vice versa |
| Commercial wallcovering | Hotels, offices, restaurants, retail | Specialist vinyl or fabric wallcoverings |
Designer brands we hang regularly
Our team regularly works with papers from Graham & Brown, Farrow & Ball, Cole & Son, Osborne & Little, Little Greene, and Zoffany. These papers are expensive — they deserve to be hung correctly. We treat hand-printed and designer wallpapers with the care they require, handling them in appropriate conditions and using the adhesive specified by the manufacturer.
For commercial properties with specialist wallcovering requirements, see our commercial wallpapering service. We also combine exterior and interior work — our external painting service covers the outside of your property at the same time.
The Painting and Decorating Association provides guidance on professional standards in the UK decorating trade — the benchmarks we work to on every job.
