The Wallpaper Edit · $75
Send me your room. I’ll send back three papers.
Named, with pattern codes and where to buy them, the paint that goes with each, and how many rolls your room actually needs. Within 48 hours.
Saved a photograph of a room and want to find this wallpaper — or one that would do the same thing in yours? Send it with the photographs. Identifying a paper from a picture is part of the job.
Start the Edit — $75
Choosing paper is the hardest cheap decision in a house
It is not a large amount of money — a powder room takes about three rolls — but it is the decision everything else in the room has to agree with. Get it right and the paint, the stone and the metal all follow from it. Get it wrong and you are looking at it for ten years, or stripping it in six months.
And the choosing is genuinely hard. There are tens of thousands of papers, the ones that photograph well are often the ones that overwhelm a small room, and scale behaves in ways that are the opposite of what people expect. Small pattern in a small room is backwards, and almost everyone does it.
What you get
- Three papers, chosen for your room. Pattern name, code and colourway, and where to buy each one.
- Two lines on why. What each one does to the room and who it suits. This is the part you are paying for.
- The paint that goes with it. A Farrow & Ball colour and finish for the trim and ceiling, per paper — because a paper with the wrong white next to it is a wasted paper.
- How many rolls. With the pattern repeat accounted for, so you order once.
What you send
- Two photographs of the room. Phone photos are fine.
- The width of the main wall. Roughly is fine.
- One line on how you want it to feel.
You do not need measured drawings, a mood board, or a clear idea of what you want. Working out what the room wants is the job.
The Wallpaper Edit
Start the Edit — $75 Ask a question first
If you go on to commission the full room, the $75 is credited against it. Nothing is wasted by starting here.
And if you want the whole room
The Edit answers one question well. A full commission answers all of them — basin, tap, stone, lighting, bulbs, joinery colour and sheen, hardware, floor — and arrives as the finished room drawn out with every piece named and sourced.
That is from $750, takes about two weeks, and your $75 comes off it. More about a full room commission.
Questions
How much does the Wallpaper Edit cost?
$75 for one room, as a flat fee. If you later commission the full room, the $75 is credited against it, so nothing is wasted.
What do I need to send?
Two photographs of the room, the width of the main wall, and one line about how you want it to feel. That is all — you do not need measured drawings, a mood board, or a clear idea of what you want. Working out what the room wants is the job.
How long does it take?
Within 48 hours of receiving your photographs.
What exactly do I receive?
Three wallpapers chosen for your room. Each one named with its pattern code and colourway, where to buy it, and two lines on why it suits the room. With each paper: the Farrow & Ball colour and finish for the trim and ceiling, and the number of rolls your room needs with the pattern repeat accounted for.
How many rolls of wallpaper do I need for a powder room?
Most powder rooms take about three rolls, but the pattern repeat changes the answer considerably — a large repeat can add a roll or more because of the waste at each drop. Getting this wrong is expensive in both directions: order short and the second batch may be a different dye lot, order long and you have paid for paper you will never use. The Edit gives you the number for your room and your chosen paper.
Can you identify a wallpaper from a photograph?
Often, yes. Send the photograph you saved along with photographs of your own room. If the paper is identifiable it will be named with its pattern code and where to buy it. If it is discontinued, out of print, or a hand-painted commission that was never sold as a repeat, you will be told that plainly and given the closest papers that do the same thing in a room — which is usually the more useful answer anyway.
Which wallpaper brands do you use?
Thibaut and Anna French are the working house — archive patterns drawn from antique documents, at trade prices that are reachable. Morris & Co, Lewis & Wood and Little Greene where the room calls for them. For a room taking hand-painted paper, Gracie and de Gournay. You are told exactly what to order and from where.
Can you do a room that is not a bathroom?
Yes. Powder rooms, guest bathrooms, butler's pantries, home bars, entries, dining rooms, bedrooms. Small rooms are the specialty, but any single room works.
What if I do not like any of the three?
Tell me what is wrong with them and you get a second set at no charge. It is more useful to know that a palette is wrong than to guess, and a rejected set usually makes the right one obvious.
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