Wallpaper Installers in Aylesbury | Aylesbury Decorators

Period hallways in Victorian terraces along Wendover Road and the central Aylesbury market-town streets have tall ceilings, original cornicing, and dado rails at mid-height. Wallpapering a full-height period hallway with a patterned paper requires long drops from ceiling to dado, precise trimming at the cornice profile, and vertical registration maintained past the dado divide to the lower wall zone.

A patterned paper in a hall with a 3-metre ceiling has drops of well over 2 metres. Any deviation from vertical in the first drop propagates as a visible diagonal through subsequent drops. For the painted hallway treatment in period terraces, see our hallway painting page when built.

Full room wallpapering in period properties demands a higher preparation standard than feature walls. Rooms in central Aylesbury Victorian terraces typically have walls that are not perfectly plumb, ceilings that are not level, and corner joints that have opened over time. Pattern matching must be planned around these variables before the first drop is hung.

Patterned wallpaper with a large vertical repeat requires careful advance planning on drop sequence to minimise waste. For period dining rooms in Aston Clinton cottages, see our painters and decorators in Aston Clinton page for local detail.

A feature wall in a modern Buckingham Park lounge or open-plan family room can change the feel of a space. Smooth plasterboard in these 2000s homes provides a good surface for most paper types. The preparation step that must not be skipped is a sealing primer on bare or previously painted plasterboard before any paste goes on.

Without it, the paper absorbs moisture unevenly from the wall, causing bubbles that pull away from the surface as it dries. For painted feature walls and bold accent colours, see our feature wall painting page when built.

Lining paper is often the right first step on period plaster walls in central Aylesbury before a fine-finish decorative paper goes on top. Original lime plaster walls that are uneven but structurally sound benefit from a horizontal lining-paper layer. It bridges minor surface variation and gives the decorative paper a consistent base to bond to.

We use size compounds compatible with lime plaster. For the full lime-plaster primer approach, see our interior painting page. In Bedgrove and Walton Court post-war estate stock, lining paper hung crossways provides a clean base that rolling emulsion alone cannot achieve.

Old wallpaper removal in Aylesbury’s Victorian terrace stock is more involved than it looks. Layers of pre-1980s paper hang directly on plaster, and soaking through multiple layers risks softening the plaster surface itself. We work carefully through layered paper on plaster walls, particularly where the plaster is original lime rather than modern gypsum.

In Bedgrove and Walton Court post-war semis, paper often hangs directly on plasterboard without a lining layer. Overly aggressive soaking can raise the board paper facing. We assess the wall type before starting and use the appropriate removal technique for the surface.