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title: "Novotel London Canary Wharf | Mr Wallcover"
url: https://www.mrwallcover.com/projects/novotel-london-canary-wharf/
description: "Wallcovering installations at Novotel London Canary Wharf in 2016: concrete-effect and timber-grain wallcoverings, photographed on a return visit in 2022."
author: "Dorin Burcus"
last_updated: 2026-10-11
---

Canary Wharf, London E14

# Novotel London Canary Wharf

Wallcovering installations at Novotel London Canary Wharf in 2016, photographed when we went back to stay in 2022.

## At a glance

**Client**
: Novotel London Canary Wharf

**Designer**
: –Not recorded

**Main contractor**
: –Not recorded

**Maker and paper**
: –Not recorded

**Area or rooms**
: –Not recorded

**Scope**
: Wallcovering installation

**Year**
: 2016

We installed wallcoverings at Novotel London Canary Wharf in 2016. In January 2022 we went back to enjoy the work of our hands, and these photographs are from that visit: concrete-effect and timber-grain wallcoverings in the rooms and corridors, six years on.

## At a glance

- **Hotel:** Novotel London Canary Wharf
- **When:** 2016 (photographed in January 2022)
- **Scope:** wallcovering installation
- **Finishes seen here:** concrete-effect and timber-grain wallcoverings

## Six years on

A hotel wallcovering is judged years after the installers leave: whether the joints have stayed closed, the corners have held and the edges are still tight to the frames after daily use. These photographs show the rooms in 2022, after six years in service.

## Photographs on this page

Our own photographs, taken on the 2022 visit and posted on our Instagram, [@mrwallcover](https://www.instagram.com/mrwallcover/), on 29 January 2022 ([CZVUfE5KWNA](https://www.instagram.com/p/CZVUfE5KWNA/)).

## Photographs

How the commission ran

## 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 design meets the cornice and the joinery with composure.

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.

[See the finish up close: seams, internal corners, edges and joins from our own installations](https://www.mrwallcover.com/details/)

By [Dorin Burcus](https://www.mrwallcover.com/about/#dorin), founder · Last updated 11 October 2026