The full approach

How a commission runs.

The detail behind the finished photograph: how we plan a commission, understand a material and carry the work through.

THE PRACTICE

A beautiful wall begins
long before the first drop.

A written scope by room, agreed once the survey is done. One project leader on the ground. The same core team from the first day to the handover. A return visit once the paper has settled.

Specialist wallcovering installation for remarkable hotels, considered homes and ambitious spaces. From the first survey to the last carefully matched seam, we bring care to every stage. Silk, grasscloth, hand-painted paper and bespoke murals. Wallcoverings, hung properly. By people who understand the material.

Mr Wallcover is a London specialist wallcovering installer founded by Dorin Burcus, in the trade since 2012: survey to aftercare for hotels, homes and makers.

Meet Dorin

In the trade: Since 2012
Coverage: London and the surrounding areas; UK-wide for selected projects
The work: Hotels, retail and homes

Surveying · Management · Supply · Install · Aftercare

The people on site

One team, throughout.

Risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) on every job, with Dorin Burcus supervising on site.
A core team of six wallpaper hangers and six decorators who work together every day, scaling to 25–35 skilled tradespeople for large hotel programmes.
Nights and weekends when the building needs it. We have finished hotel floors while guests stayed on the other floors, and worked night shifts in an operational Belgravia restaurant so it could trade undisturbed by day.

Botanical wallcovering meeting the detailed white cornice at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair.

THE FINISH, UP CLOSE · BROWN’S HOTEL

THE DETAIL IS THE DIFFERENCE

The room is the vision.
The finish is our craft.

Setting out around a doorway. Carrying a pattern through a corner. Preparing a wall so raking light reveals the texture, never the substrate. This is the work that makes the whole room feel right.

Material knowledge: Silk, grasscloth, vinyl, textiles, murals and hand-painted papers.
Care from beginning to end: Survey, management, supply, installation and aftercare.
A considered return: A follow-up visit after four to six weeks, with twelve months’ cover on the workmanship of the hang.

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FROM FIRST IDEA TO FINISHED ROOM

One practice.
Every stage.

Bring us the paper you love, a specification, or simply the room you have in mind.

Free-issue means the paper is supplied by you, your designer or the brand; we receive it and check it against the measure.

Start your project

How we work

Five steps, and the same people throughout.

On site, step by step

Survey
Laser levels, tape and blades: the room measured and set out before a roll is opened.
How the area is measured
Preparation
The surface sanded smooth, because raking light shows every flaw under a fine paper.
Is the wall smooth enough?
Lining
An atrium at Trematon Castle stripped back and lined before any paper went up.
What lining paper is for
Hanging
A full drop of a panelled design hung to the laser line, before trimming at the skirting.
How the panel sequence works
Seams
A seam in a deep oxblood paper, checked by hand so the joint disappears.
What is normal at a seam

The six standards

The same standards, on every commission.

Whether the client is a hotel group, a designer or a household, the job runs the same way. These are the parts a photograph never shows.

01
Survey and scope, room by room
We measure the wall that will actually be hung, allow for the repeat and the wastage, and write a scope of works room by room before anyone orders paper.
02
Preparation decides the finish
Walls are filled, made good and primed until they are true. If a wall is not ready for the material specified, we say so before the last drop is ordered.
03
Protection and containment
Floors, furniture and finished joinery are protected as part of the hang. Work is contained and the place is left tidy each evening. In a home we are visitors; in a hotel we work around the house.
04
Batch and shade control
Deliveries are checked against the measure, and batches and shading are managed so that a corridor of rooms reads as one surface.
05
Set out from the room's focal points
Pattern is set out from chimneypieces, doorcases and bed walls, so the pattern sits square to the cornice and the joinery.
06
One team, then the return visit
The people who start are the people who finish. Four to six weeks after completion we come back to look at every seam and edge, and the workmanship is guaranteed for twelve months.