Pendley Manor is a country house hotel at Tring, in Hertfordshire. Over the turn of 2019 into 2020 we papered 30 of its guest rooms in 30 days: Anaglypta on the high ceilings, lining paper on every wall, and twenty different wallpapers across the rooms, among them Cole & Son’s Petroushka velvet flock.
At a glance
- Hotel: Pendley Manor Hotel, Tring, Hertfordshire
- When: December 2019 to January 2020
- Scope: 30 guest rooms in 30 days
- Ceilings: Anaglypta relief paper
- Walls: lined throughout, then twenty different wallpapers, including Cole & Son Petroushka velvet flock in several colourways
The programme
Thirty rooms in thirty days only works if every room follows the same sequence. Each room followed the same sequence: the ceiling papered, the walls lined, then the wallpaper hung. Floors were protected throughout, as the photographs show.
The ceilings
The rooms have high ceilings, which were papered in Anaglypta, a relief paper that is hung first and painted afterwards. On a ceiling the joints have to close tight and the pattern has to run true from wall to wall, because the light from the windows rakes across the relief.
The flock papers
Velvet flock is a raised pile on a paper ground. It marks easily and cannot be wiped clean of paste, so it is pasted and hung with care at every joint. Red, green and gold flocks appear in the photographs; the finished rooms here are in the red damask.
Photographs on this page
Our own photographs, first posted on our Instagram, @mrwallcover, in January and February 2020: the finished red damask rooms first, then rooms during works, the ceilings and the papers.
Source for the figures: our Instagram post of 2 January 2020 (B60Ncb2FWZS): 30 rooms in 30 days, Anaglypta for the ceilings, lining on all walls and 20 different wallpapers.
