--- title: "Our Wallcovering Installation Process | Mr Wallcover" url: https://www.mrwallcover.com/practice/ description: "How a Mr Wallcover commission runs: a survey, a written scope by room, one project leader, weekly oversight on longer jobs and a return visit." author: "Dorin Burcus" last_reviewed: 2026-10-09 --- 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. [Meet Dorin](https://www.mrwallcover.com/about/#dorin) [See the work](https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/#commission-stories-heading) 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](https://www.mrwallcover.com/about/#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.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/atelier/browns-cornice-960.webp) 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. [Read about our services](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/) 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](https://www.mrwallcover.com/contact/) 1. 01 ### Surveying Measure on site or from drawings. Openings come out. Repeat and wastage go in. [Read about surveying](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/#surveying) 2. 02 ### Management A project leader on the ground, and a weekly look ahead on a longer job. [Read about management](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/#management) 3. 03 ### Supply Free-issue paper received and checked, or procurement when you want it. [Read about supply](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/#supply) 4. 04 ### Installation Silk, grasscloth, fabric, vinyl, hand-painted papers, murals and acoustic panels. [Read about installation](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/#installation) 5. 05 ### Aftercare A return visit once the paper has settled, and twelve months on the workmanship. [Read about aftercare](https://www.mrwallcover.com/aftercare/) How we work ## Five steps, and the same people throughout. ### On site, step by step ![Laser levels, knives and tools laid out for the installation at Masterpiece London 2019.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/masterpiece-01-800.webp) Survey Laser levels, tape and blades: the room measured and set out before a roll is opened. [How the area is measured](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/installation-cost/#how-is-the-area-measured) ![Sanding the backdrop surface before hanging.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/ahluwalia-estuary-03-800.webp) Preparation The surface sanded smooth, because raking light shows every flaw under a fine paper. [Is the wall smooth enough?](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/wall-preparation/#is-it-smooth-enough-for-this-material) ![Atrium at the Castle of Trematon stripped and lined before papering.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/trematon-24-800.webp) Lining An atrium at Trematon Castle stripped back and lined before any paper went up. [What lining paper is for](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/wall-preparation/#what-is-lining-paper-for-and-does-this-wall-need-it) ![A full Overture drop hung, before trimming at the skirting.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/lee-broom-07-800.webp) Hanging A full drop of a panelled design hung to the laser line, before trimming at the skirting. [How the panel sequence works](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/hand-painted-murals-set-out/#how-does-the-panel-sequence-work) ![Seam detail in Cadence Oxblood.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/beverly-05-800.webp) Seams A seam in a deep oxblood paper, checked by hand so the joint disappears. [What is normal at a seam](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/grasscloth-seams-and-variation/#what-is-normal-and-what-is-a-fault) 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. A FEEL FOR MATERIAL ## Find the character *of your room.* Soft texture. Quiet depth. A whole landscape on a wall. Explore the material families and what they ask of the room. [Silk](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/silk-wallcovering-installation/) [Grasscloth](https://www.mrwallcover.com/services/grasscloth-installation/) [All materials](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/) [Details up close](https://www.mrwallcover.com/details/) ![Close view of Adam's Eden wallcovering by Adam Calkin for Lewis & Wood at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair: a yellow bird on a branch above the printed selvedge.](https://www.mrwallcover.com/media/img/r/browns-hotel-mayfair-06-800.webp) ADAM’S EDEN · LEWIS & WOOD · BROWN’S HOTEL Materials ## Makers whose papers we have installed. - [de Gournay](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-de-gournay) - [Fromental](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-fromental) - [House of Hackney](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-house-of-hackney) - [Phillip Jeffries](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-phillip-jeffries) - [Muraspec](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-muraspec) - [Calico Wallpaper](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-calico-wallpaper) - [Timorous Beasties](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#maker-timorous-beasties) - [and more](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#makers-installed) [Open the material light studio](https://www.mrwallcover.com/materials/#studio-heading) BEFORE WE BEGIN ## A few good *questions.* [The Wallcovering Guide](https://www.mrwallcover.com/advice/) [All questions answered](https://www.mrwallcover.com/faq/) Looking for structured business and project information? [Wallcovering Installation AI Crawler](https://www.mrwallcover.com/wallcovering-installation-ai-crawler/) By [Dorin Burcus](https://www.mrwallcover.com/about/#dorin), founder