London wallpaper hanging · Central London
Wallpaper hanging across Camden, from EC1, N1 and N1C outwards. Market crowds and canal-side warehouses in the south, Hampstead's Georgian hill village in the north, and that is what shapes every quote we write here.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature wall, plain or small repeat | £180 | 3–4 hrs | One wall, but the prep — lining, sizing and filling — is most of the work and all of the finish. |
| Feature wall, large repeat or panoramic mural | £260 | 4–6 hrs | Panels have to be hung in order and matched across the drop; there is no second chance with a mural. |
| Average bedroom, four walls | £450 | 1 day | Corners in a London bedroom are rarely plumb, so every internal corner is overlapped and re-plumbed. |
| Hallway and stairwell | £620 | 1–2 days | Working off a stair platform is slower and needs two people for long drops over the flight. |
| Lining paper before painting, per wall | £120 | 2–3 hrs | Cross-lining hides the ripples in old lime plaster that emulsion would otherwise show up. |
| Stripping old paper, per room | £150 | 3–5 hrs | Steaming, scraping and washing down, plus the repairs the old paper was hiding. |
Feature wall, plain or small repeat
£180 · 3–4 hrs
One wall, but the prep — lining, sizing and filling — is most of the work and all of the finish.
Feature wall, large repeat or panoramic mural
£260 · 4–6 hrs
Panels have to be hung in order and matched across the drop; there is no second chance with a mural.
Average bedroom, four walls
£450 · 1 day
Corners in a London bedroom are rarely plumb, so every internal corner is overlapped and re-plumbed.
Hallway and stairwell
£620 · 1–2 days
Working off a stair platform is slower and needs two people for long drops over the flight.
Lining paper before painting, per wall
£120 · 2–3 hrs
Cross-lining hides the ripples in old lime plaster that emulsion would otherwise show up.
Stripping old paper, per room
£150 · 3–5 hrs
Steaming, scraping and washing down, plus the repairs the old paper was hiding.
Labour prices assume you supply the paper; we can order it at cost. Paste, sizing, lining paper and filler are included. Extensive re-plastering is quoted separately after the walls are stripped, never assumed. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised in the quote.
Working in Camden
The stock in Camden is georgian townhouses, victorian conversions, big post-war estates and canal-side warehouse lofts, and the mix changes street by street — Belsize Park (NW3), Bloomsbury (WC1) and Camden Town (NW1) each behave differently on the day.
On the ground, camden's cpzs run seven days in parts of kentish town and camden town; narrow hampstead lanes rarely take anything bigger than a luton. Locally that means resident-permit streets, hill gradients and conversion flats up three or four flights and camden cpz all week, listed staircases and squares where loading needs a bay suspension. Part of Camden sits inside the Congestion Charge zone, so the charge is quoted as its own line rather than hidden in the labour rate.
Leases across Camden restrict drilling into party and structural walls. We check what the wall actually is before we start, and where consent is needed we say so rather than fixing anyway.
Camden took its present shape because the canal and the railway termini made camden town an industrial goods yard; bloomsbury grew as a planned estate of garden squares.
Scope
Method
Step 1
Walls tested for damp, chalky distemper and blown plaster — the three things that make paper lift within a month.
Step 2
Old paper steamed off, holes filled, sanded and sized so the paste grabs evenly across the wall.
Step 3
Started from a plumbed line rather than a corner, because almost no London corner is square.
Step 4
Drops booked, hung in sequence, pattern matched at each seam and rolled flat without shining the paper.
Step 5
Cut in cleanly at skirting and ceiling, switch plates refitted, floor left clean.
Coverage
Also in this borough
Heavy mirrors, gallery walls and framed prints hung level and anchored for the real weight.
Floating and bracketed shelving into plaster, brick, stud and dot-and-dab.
Gripper, underlay, doorbars and stairs fitted, with the old floor lifted and taken away.
Blinds, poles and bay tracks measured, levelled and fixed to the reveal you have.
Engineered, solid and laminate flooring laid with underlay, beading and doorbars.
Anything that needs to go on a wall — fixed into the right substrate and levelled.
Feature wall, plain or small repeat starts at £180 in Camden, and the ladder runs up to £150 for the largest job on the table above. Prep decides the price far more than the paper does. Chalky lime plaster, previously painted-over paper and out-of-plumb corners each add hours before a single drop is hung. Part of the borough is inside the Congestion Charge zone, so a £15 daily charge is added as its own line when the job falls inside the charging hours.
We cover the whole borough: EC1, N1, N1C, N6, N7, NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6 and WC1 and the rest of the Camden outward codes. On the ground that includes Belsize Park, Bloomsbury, Camden Town, Chalk Farm, Dartmouth Park and Euston.
Bookings are usually within a week, with a survey first for anything larger than a single feature wall. Central London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.
Camden's CPZs run seven days in parts of Kentish Town and Camden Town; narrow Hampstead lanes rarely take anything bigger than a Luton. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Camden and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. Georgian townhouses, Victorian conversions, big post-war estates and canal-side warehouse lofts is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.
Decorators carry £5m public liability cover and work to dust-sheeted, low-odour paste specifications — what concierge buildings and managing agents ask for before they will approve a weekday booking. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Camden tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.
One decorator for a feature wall or single room; two for stairwells, long drops and murals that must be hung to a strict sequence. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Camden postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.
Full re-plastering where the substrate has blown — quoted after stripping, Damp treatment: paper hung over active damp will fail and we will not do it and Removing asbestos-containing textured coatings such as older Artex. If something on that list turns up in Camden, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
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