Wallpaper

Wallpaper is back, and it is nothing like the paper you once steamed off a hallway. Modern papers go up on paste-the-wall adhesive, come off in one piece years later, and cover a wall that paint alone cannot save.

We order wallpaper for customers across Richmond Hill, North York and the rest of the GTA — textures and grasscloth, plaster and concrete effects, florals, geometrics, murals, paintable papers and peel-and-stick. The sample books live in both stores: come in, flip through them, photograph the pattern number you like and we will price it and order it for you. Bring your paint colour, your floor sample or a photo of the room and we will tell you honestly whether it works.

Everything else you need is below — tap a section to open it.

Pairing wallpaper with Benjamin Moore colourSix starting points for the other three walls

One papered wall almost always needs three painted ones. This is where most DIY jobs go wrong, so here is where we would start. Bring the sample home, tape it up, and look at it at night under your own lights before you commit.

Concrete, plaster and stone looks wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillConcrete, plaster & stone looksClassic Gray OC-23 · Revere Pewter HC-172Warm greys keep the wall architectural instead of cold. Use an eggshell finish on the adjoining walls so the texture of the paper still reads as the special one.
Grasscloth, linen and woven texture wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillGrasscloth, linen & woven texturePale Oak OC-20 · White Dove OC-17 trimNatural fibre papers shift colour panel to panel. A soft off-white next to them looks intentional; a bright white makes the paper look dirty.
Botanical and floral wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillBotanical & floralSimply White OC-117 · Soft Fern 2144-40Pull the lightest leaf colour out of the paper and put it on the trim or one accent wall. Do not try to match the flowers — match the background.
Geometric and stripes wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillGeometric & stripesChantilly Lace OC-65 · Cloud White OC-130Busy pattern wants quiet neighbours. Clean whites also stop a strong repeat from making a small room feel tight.
Dark and dramatic wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillDark & dramaticHale Navy HC-154 · Kendall Charcoal HC-166 / Wrought Iron 2124-10Paint the rest of the room in the same depth as the paper, not lighter. Matching the ceiling colour down to the wall is what makes a dark room feel designed.
Murals and feature walls wallpaper paired with Benjamin Moore paint colours, Centerpoint Paint Richmond HillMurals & feature wallsPick from the mural itselfBring the mural proof to the store and we will match a Benjamin Moore colour straight off it for the other three walls.

Not sure? Bring the wallpaper sample into the store. We will hold it against the fan deck with you — that takes five minutes and saves a gallon of the wrong colour.

How many rolls do you need?Work it out with our calculator

Wallpaper is not sold by square footage the way paint is. A roll gives you a fixed length, and the pattern repeat means you lose some of every strip lining the pattern up. That is why two rooms the same size can need a different number of rolls.

An estimate, not a quote. Doors and windows are deliberately not deducted — you still cut full strips over them. Bring these numbers to either store and we will check them against the actual roll size before we order.

The maths behind it, if you want to check

  1. Add up the width of every wall you are papering, then divide by the roll width. That is how many strips you need.
  2. Wall height plus 4 inches for trimming is your strip length. If the paper has a pattern repeat, round that strip length up to the next whole repeat — that lost bit is how the pattern lines up from strip to strip.
  3. Divide the roll length by the strip length and round down: that is how many usable strips come out of one roll.
  4. Strips needed divided by strips per roll, rounded up, plus a waste allowance. Ten per cent is normal; go to fifteen for a large repeat or a room full of windows and angles.

Roll length, roll width and pattern repeat are all printed in the sample book — we will write them down for you before you leave.

Hanging it yourselfVideo walkthrough and the three usual mistakes

Modern paste-the-wall papers are genuinely DIY-friendly — you paste the wall, not the paper, so there is no soaking table and no folding. This is the clearest walkthrough we have found, from ROMAN, whose primer and adhesive we stock:

Two more worth watching before you start: How to prepare wallpaper for hanging and How to hang wallpaper in a corner. Doing a mural or a peel-and-stick paper instead? See installing wallpaper murals and hanging peel & stick.

Three things people get wrong

  • Skipping primer on bare drywall. The paper will stick to the paper facing of the drywall, and removing it later takes the wall with it.
  • Papering over old paper. Strip it. The old seams telegraph through and the old adhesive lets go under the new one.
  • Starting in a corner. Snap a plumb line and start from there. No wall in a Toronto house is straight.
What you need from usTools, primer, adhesive — everything on the shelf

Everything on this list is on the shelf in Richmond Hill and North York as well. Not sure what you need? Tell us the paper and the room and we will put the list together with your order.

Come and see the books

Richmond Hill — 11860 Yonge Street, Units 2 & 3, Richmond Hill, ON L4E 0W6
North York — 6212 Yonge Street, Unit 103, North York, ON M2M 3X4
Or message us on WhatsApp at (647) 227-1780 with a photo of the pattern number from the book.