The seam you'll never find.
Premium wallpaper installation in Los Angeles. Murals, grasscloth, metallics and hand-printed papers — hung with museum-level patience and a seam you have to hunt for.
Premium wallpaper installation in Los Angeles. Murals, grasscloth, metallics and hand-printed papers — hung with museum-level patience and a seam you have to hunt for.
Most installers will tell you how fast they are. We take two to three times longer per wall — and that is exactly what you are paying for. Every drop is measured twice, every pattern is walked around the room before the first strip touches paste, and the seams that need a double cut get one.
Speed and the photos below are, on most materials, mutually exclusive.
Two strips are hung with a slight overlap, then cut through both layers in a single pass with a fresh blade. The offcuts are removed, the edges meet — and the seam disappears into the pattern. Done right, the gap is about a millimeter and the joint is invisible from a handshake away.
It is not what every wall needs. Most papers butt cleanly on a factory edge, and forcing a double cut where it isn't wanted only risks the substrate. We reach for it on the difficult ones — dark solids, metallics, heavy vinyls, panels and rooms with no square corner to start from — and whenever the manufacturer's instructions call for it.
Knowing which seam needs which treatment is the actual skill. Ask us to show you one under a flashlight either way.
Anyone can shoot the finished wall. The hours that decide whether a seam shows up six months later happen before the first strip touches paste — so we photograph those too.
Curved walls, a plastered ceiling and birds that had to survive four corners. Every drop was dry-hung and walked around the room before a drop of paste was mixed.
Original Victorian panelling, not one square corner in the room, and a damask whose faces had to stay upright and land level along the moulding. Scribed by hand, one drop at a time.
Knowing where each one goes wrong is most of the craft. Here is what we hang, and what we watch for while we hang it.
Woven from a plant, so no two bolts match exactly — seams are meant to be visible, panel shading is not. We sequence bolts by dye lot, reverse-hang where the weave demands it, and keep paste off the face for the entire install.
Unforgiving of a fingerprint and impossible to wipe clean. Handled with fresh gloves, hung with a lining paper so the wall behind never telegraphs through the weave.
A reflective surface is a raking light you cannot turn off — every dent and screw hole underneath will read. These walls get skim-coated and sanded to a standard we would not bother with under a matte print.
Panels arrive numbered but rooms are never the plan. We dry-lay the full set and sequence it against your architecture before cutting, so the focal point lands where you look, not where the drop happened to fall.
The hardest thing in the trade. A dark unpatterned surface hides nothing: this is where a double cut earns its keep, and every edge is rolled twice, because there is no pattern to carry your eye past a flaw.
Gravity works against you and there is no plumb line to trust. Scribed to the curve and worked in shorter drops — slower, and the only way an arch reads as one continuous surface.
Built for abuse, installed to a schedule that usually runs at night. Double-cut where the spec calls for it, fully sealed at the edges, so a hallway that sees a thousand shoulders a week still looks new at year five.
Send photos of the room and the paper you have in mind. We reply the same day — in writing, with honest feasibility notes.
Exact yardage check, wall assessment and a fixed written quote within 24 hours. No verbal estimates that drift.
Floors and furniture protected, patterns matched around the room, seams treated the way the material asks for. We leave the space cleaner than we found it.
Macro photos of the seams, leftover material labeled and stored notes for future repairs — yours to keep.
Scopes, schedules and daily photo updates by email or text. A paper trail your client can see — and nothing lost in a phone call.
One installer, no crew rotation, no radio. Your client's home is treated like the showroom it is about to become.
Metallics, grasscloth, dark solids, curved walls and ceilings — the categories other installers quietly decline.
Happy to work white-label on your projects. The wall gets the credit; you decide who gets the tag.
Maslov Atelier is Vlad Maslov — a wallpaper installer who does one thing and refuses to do it approximately. Five years and more than a hundred rooms into the craft, every project is still hung personally, from the first plumb line to the last blade pass.
The goal is not to be the fastest installer in Los Angeles. It is to be the one designers call when the paper is too expensive to trust to anyone else.
Every project is priced individually — the material, the walls and the layout change the number too much for a menu. Send photos of the room and the paper you have in mind; you’ll have a fixed written quote within 24 hours, and it doesn’t drift mid-job.
Patterns walked around the room before anything touches paste, double-cut seams wherever the material or the manufacturer calls for them, and one installer doing everything personally. Rushed seams are the ones you see. The extra hours are the product.
You or your designer. We verify exact yardage against the pattern repeat before you order, so you don’t pay for two spare rolls — and we’re glad to flag a material that won’t behave on your walls before you fall in love with it.
Yes. Removal, repairs and skim-coating are itemized in the written scope after we see the walls. Paper — especially anything with a sheen — shows every flaw underneath, so prep is never skipped.
Constantly, including white-label. Written scopes, daily photo updates, one quiet installer on site — and your name on the finished wall if you prefer.
Greater Los Angeles. Projects beyond LA are taken on by arrangement — when the paper is worth the drive.
Tell us about the room and the paper. You'll have an honest written answer the same day — and a fixed quote within 24 hours.
Vlad reads every one personally. You’ll have an honest written answer the same day, and a fixed quote within 24 hours.
Photos of the room help enormously — send them to vlad@maslovatelier.com and they’ll be attached to your enquiry.