--- title: "Mr Wallcover | Wallpaper Installer London" url: https://www.mrwallcover.com/ description: "Mr Wallcover is a London specialist wallcovering installer founded by Dorin Burcus. Survey, supply, installation and aftercare for hotels, retail and homes." author: "Dorin Burcus" last_reviewed: 2026-10-09 --- Wallpaper installer, London # Mr Wallcover is a London specialist wallcovering installer, *founded by Dorin Burcus.* Wallcoverings, hung properly. We survey, manage, supply and install for prime hotels, flagship retail and private homes, and aftercare is part of the commission, not an extra. [Work delivered in partnership with Calico Wallpaper](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/#design-weeks) [Start your project](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/) [Explore our work](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/) [Wallpaper already purchased](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/?intent=install) Brown's Hotel, Mayfair ## On the wall. Photographs and short films taken on site during the decorating package, 2022–2024. Smoothing a length in a Brown's corridor. A dark ground with a pale botanical trail. A bedroom doorway, the paper already hung. ## A London practice for rooms that are meant to last. The work is hotel corridors and bedrooms, flagship shops, and private houses. We cover London and the surrounding areas, and work UK-wide for selected projects. Surveying · Management · Supply · Install · Aftercare **In the trade** : Since 2014 **Coverage** : London and the surrounding areas; UK-wide for selected projects **The work** : Hotels, retail and homes The five parts ## From the survey to the return visit. One practice carries the job. Survey, management, supply, the hang, and the care of it afterwards. ### Surveying Measure on site or from drawings. Openings come out. Repeat and wastage go in. ### Management A project leader on the ground, and a weekly look ahead on a longer job. ### Supply Free-issue paper received and checked, or procurement when you want it. ### Installation Silk, grasscloth, fabric, vinyl, hand-painted papers, murals and acoustic panels. ### Aftercare A return visit once the paper has settled, and twelve months on the workmanship. Selected work ## Hotels, a flagship, and the rooms between. Commissions already on the public record. Private clients are not named. Residential work appears only by street or area, with the owner's agreement. 2022–2024 ### Brown's Hotel, Mayfair A full decorating package for London's oldest hotel, delivered while it never stopped welcoming guests. ### Raffles London at The OWO, Whitehall Wallcovering installation · 2020–2023 ### Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square Guest room and suite wallpapering · 2016–2019 ### Castle of Trematon, Cornwall Wallcovering installation contractor across the Georgian house and estate · 2019–2022 ### DoubleTree by Hilton London – West End Guest room wallcoverings · 2019 ### House of Hackney showroom, St Michael's Clergy House Preparation, decorating and wallpapering · 2022 ### St George's Square, Pimlico Full exterior, scaffolding supplied and managed · 2024 ### Inverness Terrace, Bayswater Full scaffolded exterior · 2018 ### A Georgian house in North London Wallpaper installation · 2019 ### Ahluwalia x Calico Wallpaper: 'Estuary' at Rosewood London Specialist installation of the Estuary mural backdrop, against a fixed show deadline · 2026 ### Calico Wallpaper x BEVERLY 1975: Cadence at The Lavery, Brompton Design District Feature-wall installation · 2026 ### Lee Broom x Calico Wallpaper: 'Overture' at the Lee Broom Shoreditch showroom Survey, wall preparation and installation of the Overture mural; wallpapering of theatrical flats for Calico's LDF dinner · 2025 ### Calico Wallpaper airside at Heathrow: a luxury fashion house's store, Terminal 4 Specialist wallcovering installation, overnight, in a live terminal · 2018 Also on the record - [Hyde London City (the Old Bailey Hotel)](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/old-bailey-hotel/). A complete decorating package for 110 rooms: paint, specialist wallcoverings and window film, delivered over about two years inside a Grade II-listed Victorian hotel opposite the Central Criminal Court. - [Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/hilton-garden-inn-silverstone/). Main wallcoverings contractor for the only hotel on the Silverstone Circuit. What do you need? ## Five ways to begin. ### I already have the wallpaper Installation, with the product you have bought. Measurements can wait. ### Help me choose and install it A material family, a sample in the room, then the hang. ### I am specifying a project Send the room schedule, drawings and the specification. Unknowns can stay blank. ### A hotel or contractor package Access, programme and who supplies the material. ### Aftercare or a repair A separate note for existing work. A photograph tells us whether it is the hang or the building. How we work ## Five steps, and the same people throughout. 1. 01 ### Consultation We start with a conversation. We advise, and we listen to the date, the building, and the way you need to keep using it. 2. 02 ### Scope, room by room After the survey we estimate and write a scope of works by room. Once agreed, that scope is the template for the job. Openings come out of the measure. Pattern repeat and wastage go in. 3. 03 ### A leader on the ground Every project has a project leader who is your day-to-day contact. They look after the craft, the progress, and what you have been told to expect. 4. 04 ### Weekly oversight On a longer commission, senior oversight quality-controls the work and agrees with you, each week, what happens next. 5. 05 ### The same core team The people you meet at the start are the core team that finishes. On a long project, people can stay on site or nearby, where that suits the building and the budget. Craft ## The join, then the surface. Two details from Brown's Hotel, both photographed after completion. Material light studio ## Light on a material, before a sample. An illustrative simulation of a room corner. It is not a certified match of a named product. A physical sample is the authority for colour, texture and sheen. A real surface at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair. The studio does not replace this photograph. Paper and non-woven. A matte printed surface. Light direction Calico Wallpaper ## Work delivered in partnership with Calico Wallpaper. Calico Wallpaper murals and papers installed for public events and stores in London, each with its own case study. - [Ahluwalia x Calico Wallpaper: Estuary](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/calico-ahluwalia-estuary-rosewood/) - [Calico Wallpaper x BEVERLY 1975: Cadence](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/calico-beverly-1975-cadence/) - [Lee Broom x Calico Wallpaper: Overture](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/calico-lee-broom-overture/) - [Calico Wallpaper at Heathrow Terminal 4](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/heathrow-terminal-4-calico/) Aftercare ## The hang is not finished when we leave. About four to six weeks later we come back, once the paper has had a chance to settle. Seams and edges are looked at. For twelve months, workmanship of the hang is guaranteed. Building movement and damp are not. [Read the aftercare](https://www.mrwallcover.com/aftercare/) Questions ## Before you book the hang. The questions that decide a quotation: cost, time, preparation, who buys the paper, and what happens after we leave. ### What does wallcovering installation cost in London? There is no honest flat rate per roll. The figure follows the measured area after openings are taken off, the pattern repeat and the wastage it creates, the state of the walls, and the material. A plain contract vinyl in an empty room is a different day's work from a hand-painted scenic in an occupied house, or a hotel corridor that can only be reached between guests. Access, protection and making good are written into the scope. They are not discovered at the end. We estimate from a site survey or from drawings, and we say what has been allowed for. ### How far ahead do you need to be booked? We give a date after the survey. A single room in a private house can often be scheduled sooner than a hotel package that has to move floor by floor around guests. If the paper is free-issue, the supplier's lead time sits inside the programme and we plan the hang around delivery. Tell us the date you have in mind and we will say whether it is realistic. ### Do you prepare the walls before hanging? Where the specification includes it, preparation means stripping old paper, sanding with dust extraction, and making good cracks and uneven surfaces before anything decorative goes up. Some papers are specified without a lining. Others need one. We follow the specification, and we will say if a wall is not ready to take the material. Joinery can be covered where the drawings show it. ### Who supplies the wallpaper? Usually the designer, the brand or the client supplies the wallcovering, and we manage delivery and quantities. That is the ordinary arrangement on a hotel or a flagship, and it keeps the specification where the designer left it. We can procure when you want us to. Either way, the order has to cover pattern repeat and wastage. Where the repeat is demanding, that allowance is often in the region of 20%. ### What aftercare and warranty do you offer? Aftercare is included. About four to six weeks after completion we return, at no call-out charge, and look at seams, edges and corners once the paper has settled. Touch-ups that belong to the hang are done then. During the guarantee, a repair to our workmanship is a priority call-out. The workmanship guarantee lasts twelve months from completion. It covers how the material was hung. It does not cover building movement, damp, leaks, later damage or unsuitable cleaning. The care notes for silk, grasscloth, fabric, vinyl, hand-painted papers, murals and acoustic panels are on the aftercare page. ### Which materials do you hang, and where? Silk, grasscloth and other natural weaves, fabric walling, vinyl and contract wallcoverings, hand-painted papers in the manner of de Gournay and Fromental, murals, and acoustic wallcoverings and panels. We also hang to joinery when that is specified. London and the surrounding areas; UK-wide for selected projects. The practice is based in London, and most of the work is in central London. A quotation ## Tell us the building, the material and the date. A hotel floor, a house, a shop, or a paper that needs looking after. Call, send a note, or use WhatsApp. [Start your project](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/) By [Dorin Burcus](https://www.mrwallcover.com/about/#dorin), founder · Last reviewed 9 October 2026