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Finished guest bedroom at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair: pale tree-and-leaf wallcovering behind a green patterned headboard, with velvet and fringed botanical cushions under lit wall lights.

The art of the finish

Extraordinary rooms.
Impeccably finished.

Specialist wallcovering installation for remarkable hotels, considered homes and ambitious spaces.

Award-winning (2021): Most Outstanding for Wallcovering Installation, BUILD Magazine 2021 Design & Build Awards

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LONDON & SELECTED UK PROJECTSON LOCATION Brown’s Hotel, Mayfair

London wallcovering installers, since 2012.

Makers we install de Gournay · Fromental · House of Hackney · Phillip Jeffries · Muraspec · Calico Wallpaper · Timorous Beasties and more

Hotels and historic commissions

Rooms we have finished.

OUR WORK HAS A PLACE
IN EXTRAORDINARY ADDRESSES

Brown’s HotelMAYFAIRRaffles LondonTHE OWOFour SeasonsTEN TRINITY SQUAREHyde London CityOLD BAILEY

Work delivered in partnership with Calico Wallpaper

THE PRACTICE

A beautiful wall begins
long before the first drop.

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 the practice
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

Dorin Burcus

Dorin Burcus, founder of Mr Wallcover

Dorin Burcus founded Mr Wallcover. He has worked in the trade since 2012, starting as a labourer and going on to run wallcovering packages in prime London hotels.

  • 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.
More about Dorin and how we work

Brown's Hotel, Mayfair

On the wall.

Photographs and short films taken on site during the decorating package, 2022–2024.

Finished guest bedroom at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair: pale tree-and-leaf wallcovering behind a green patterned headboard, with velvet and fringed botanical cushions under lit wall lights.
Bedside in a finished guest room at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair: a dark wood chest, a wavy-stemmed table lamp and yellow cushions against pale grey painted walls.
Navy-painted guest-room door at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair, lettered 'Sir Paul Smith' in gold, with a brass lever handle.
Narrow bedside at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair, papered in pale tree-and-leaf wallcovering, with a sculptural bronze lamp, a wall light and a green patterned headboard.
Guest bedroom at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair, with tall sash windows, full-length linen curtains, a red armchair and an upholstered bench at the foot of the bed.
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.

On location: short films from Brown’s Hotel

Silent film, 15 seconds. A walk through a finished room papered in a cream wallcovering with a white botanical trail, past the bed, a sofa under a mirror, the window and the desk.
Silent film, 6 seconds. A slow pan around a finished guest room: the desk and mirror, the bed, then two armchairs by the curtained windows.
Silent film, 7 seconds. A bedroom during the works, hung in a sage wallcovering with a white leaf pattern, with the floor protected and a laser level and stepladders in the room.

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.

Navy-painted guest-room door at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair, lettered 'Sir Paul Smith' in gold, with a brass lever handle.

A real surface at Brown's Hotel, Mayfair. The studio does not replace this photograph.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

Places with presence.

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Brown's Hotel in Mayfair at dusk, its entrance illuminated beneath the flags. Our photograph of the hotel exterior.

HOSPITALITY · MAYFAIR

Brown’s Hotel

2022–2024

A full decorating package, delivered while the hotel continued welcoming guests.

Our photograph of the hotel exterior. See the commission for completed interiors.

Detail of the PLANTASIA forest mural by House of Hackney, hung by Mr Wallcover at the Castle of Trematon, Cornwall.

Historic interiors

The Castle of Trematon

2019–2022

Wallcovering installation contractor across the Georgian house and estate

Selected work · More commissions

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.

Also on the record

  • Hyde London City (the Old Bailey Hotel). A complete decorating package for 111 guest rooms across seven storeys: 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. Main wallcoverings contractor for the only hotel on the Silverstone Circuit, its rooms finished to one standard in time for the 2022 British Grand Prix.
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.

Tell us about it
  1. 01

    Surveying

    Measure on site or from drawings. Openings come out. Repeat and wastage go in.

  2. 02

    Management

    A project leader on the ground, and a weekly look ahead on a longer job.

  3. 03

    Supply

    Free-issue paper received and checked, or procurement when you want it.

  4. 04

    Installation

    Silk, grasscloth, fabric, vinyl, hand-painted papers, murals and acoustic panels.

  5. 05

    Aftercare

    A return visit once the paper has settled, and twelve months on the workmanship.

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.

On site, step by step

  1. Laser levels, knives and tools laid out for the installation at Masterpiece London 2019.

    Survey

    Laser levels, tape and blades: the room measured and set out before a roll is opened.

    How the area is measured
  2. Sanding the backdrop surface before hanging.

    Preparation

    The surface sanded smooth, because raking light shows every flaw under a fine paper.

    Is the wall smooth enough?
  3. Atrium at the Castle of Trematon stripped and lined before papering.

    Lining

    An atrium at Trematon Castle stripped back and lined before any paper went up.

    What lining paper is for
  4. A full Overture drop hung, before trimming at the skirting.

    Hanging

    A full drop of a panelled design hung to the laser line, before trimming at the skirting.

    How the panel sequence works
  5. Seam detail in Cadence Oxblood.

    Seams

    A seam in a deep oxblood paper, checked by hand so the joint disappears.

    What is normal at a seam

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 Grasscloth All materials Details up close
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.ADAM’S EDEN · LEWIS & WOOD · BROWN’S HOTEL

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.

“Gorgeous! Thank you so much!”

Calico Wallpaper, on the Beverly 1975 installation

“Thank you for the update Dorin and for your hard work!”

Calico Wallpaper

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

BEFORE WE BEGIN

A few good
questions.

The Wallcovering Guide All questions answered

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. We focus on whole residences and hotel packages, and will take on one- or two-room commissions; a smaller private commission 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. That allowance is typically 15–30%, depending on the pattern repeat and the layout, with staircases at the high end (around 30%) because of the angles. Extra rolls for pattern matching are confirmed at survey.

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.

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.

YOUR NEXT ROOM

Let’s make it
something remarkable.

Hotels, prime residences and specified schemes. Tell us what you have in mind.

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