Freshly painted and wallpapered common hall space

Midtown East Co-Op Wallpaper Installation and Removal 

The advantages of wallpaper start with the almost unlimited styles, colors, shapes, prints and themes. Even if the upfront cost is a tad on the high side, today’s wallpapers can look as rich and perform as functional for 15 years or more. In this common space hallway, we removed some very old damaged wallpaper and applied and smoothed new plaster for a charming, neutral, chevron print.

We painted the ceiling, then brushed satin imprevo on the trim in Linen White. This premium, low luster product is formulated for excellence in leveling and concealing any small imperfections on the molding itself. Once all that was dry, we set up large table spaces for unrolling, cutting, pasting and preparing each wallpaper piece for precise application on the wall, making sure the designs matched at every seam. Hanging wallpapering is the perfect task for being fussy and finicky, and everyone on our team is just that on projects like this. How very cool for these co-op tenants to care enough to call in the very best - that’s us - to clean out, clean up, prime, paint, plaster, hang wallpaper, protect the floors and doors, tidy up and exceed expectations when it’s all done.

Freshly painted and ready for new wallpaper

Wallpaper cut n’ prep station

Wallpaper hanging, trimming, matching lines

Dingy, old, damaged wallpaper had to go

Brooklyn Paper Hanging

The Manhattan Bridge dates to 1909 and has some real international flair, considering that the arch was modeled after Porte Saint-Denis in Paris and the plaza is like the one around St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. As the old saw goes, no point in re-inventing the wheel. The neighborhood dubbed DUMBO, for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, features cobblestone streets and beautifully converted warehouse buildings. It is here that a young family is about to welcome a baby and wanted to bring some safari-style wildlife to the home scene.

 Wallpapering can be tricky, and we have the perfect, expert team for the job. Walls need to be super smooth, which in our world translates to patching, spackling, sanding, smoothing, inspecting from all angles and applying the correct undercoat product for superior adherence. Application like this requires intricate attention to detail so the back half of a giraffe body in this wallpaper pattern does not butt into a tree or an elephant. It’s a precision kind of job where you cannot afford even a vertical fraction of an inch off or nothing lines up properly. You can see our work here – all the giraffes are whole, like the trees and other creatures. It’s a whimsical wall in a Brooklyn setting with an international splash from another continent.