I was going through my photos this evening and came across some snaps of a job I did for a neighbour a few months back. They'd asked me to hang a couple of feature walls in their sitting room with a black flock wallpaper by Graham and Brown, in the Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen design 'Kinky Vintage Naughty Noir'. Ooookay! It was fairly straightforward to put up, once the walls were properly prepared. This flock wallpaper is embossed with a fuzzy, almost hairy black fabric - it brushes off very easily so one has to be careful when smoothing it not to over-smooth, or the flock can not only be brushed off but also flattened. And, because of the texture, you have to be very careful not to get any paste on the front of the wallpaper, as it'll be very difficult (if not impossible) to remove the paste from the flock without damaging it.



It's not the most expensive wallpaper, but at up to £60 a roll, you don't want to be making errors and having to replace drops. It's a pretty simple 'paste the wall' paper - fairly heavy but easy enough to cut with my favourite Olfa sharks fin knife (The LA5 Auto Lock is my favourite for most jobs.) 



As well as hanging these two feature walls, they asked me to paper their entrance hall in cream and gold Desire paper, also by Graham and Brown. This is more straightforward paper, up to £30 a roll, but makes a nice statement and it gave the entrance hall a lovely warmth.