Custom wallpaper is the difference between decorating a wall and answering it. Every wall in every home has its own exact dimensions, and yet most wallpaper is sold as though it doesn't: fixed rolls, fixed drops, beautiful designs cropped wherever your ceiling happens to interrupt them. We print wallpaper to measure at our West Gosford facilities, every order, every day, and this guide walks you through what made-to-measure actually changes for you, when it's worth commissioning a fully custom design, and how the whole process runs from the moment you pick up the tape measure to the moment the wall is finished.
Here's the short version, in case you're skimming with a coffee in hand: if you've ever loved a design and worried about how it would look on your wall specifically, the answer is that with made-to-measure printing, it lands correctly, because it was scaled to your measurements before the printer even started. That isn't a premium extra you tick at checkout. It's simply how we make wallpaper for you.
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Made to Measure: What Every Order Already Includes
Every single wallpaper order we produce is printed to the width and height you enter. The design is scaled correctly for your wall, the drops are planned around your dimensions, and the placement of the motif is worked out for you rather than left to chance. That quietly retires the classic stock-roll heartbreaks: the mural whose focal point ends up behind the wardrobe, the botanical whose flower heads are neatly decapitated at a 2.4 metre ceiling line, the leftover half-roll you paid for and the missing 30 centimetres you didn't. It also means the pricing is honest. You pay for your wall's area, not for the nearest roll count above it. Measuring takes about five minutes with our measuring guide: width at the widest point, height floor to ceiling, and if anything about your wall is a little unusual, our team will check placement against your dimensions before printing, free of charge. That verification step, where a real person confirms how the design will sit on your measurements, is where made-to-measure earns its name.
Stock rolls make your wall fit the wallpaper. Made-to-measure makes the wallpaper fit your wall. And that's the right way round.
Beyond Made to Measure: True Custom Work
Then there's the wall that needs a little more from us: the sloped attic ceiling, the double-height stair void, the wraparound that turns two corners, the brand wall in a cafe fit-out, the nursery that wants a favourite design but in a different palette. This is where our custom wallpaper service comes in: design adjustments like scale shifts, colour changes and composition extensions, walls with geometry no standard drop was ever going to anticipate, and genuinely bespoke projects built from your brief. The process is a conversation with the studio rather than a click-through configurator. You send us the wall photos, the measurements and what you're hoping for, and the team comes back with what's possible, a visual, and a price, before anything is committed to print. Because design and production share a floor at West Gosford, the loop between "could it be a touch more sage?" and a revised proof is measured in days, and the fit-out deadlines that keep import-based suppliers up at night are our normal production schedule: 4 business days on full-price orders once the design is approved.
What Australians Ask Us to Make
- Scaled murals for tricky walls: the most common request by far. A mural recomposed for a 3.4 metre ceiling, a stair diagonal, or a wall broken up by two doors. Have a browse of the coastal murals for the kind of raw material we start from.
- Colour-shifted designs: the pattern is right, the palette isn't quite. Recolouring a design to match your room's scheme is a studio staple, and nursery orders lead the queue via the nursery collection.
- Panoramas extended: wide walls that stretch beyond a design's native composition, extended seamlessly for you rather than tiled over and over.
- Commercial and hospitality walls: cafes, salons, foyers and fit-outs where the wall is the brand. Commercial-grade materials and deadline-driven production, covered in more depth in our commercial mural guide.
- The sentimental commission: a place that matters, rendered at wall size. The honeymoon coastline, the family property's treeline, the view from the childhood kitchen window. These are the orders the production floor remembers.
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Materials: The Same Two Choices, Custom or Not
Custom work prints on the same two materials as everything else, chosen based on what your wall is being asked to do. Paste-the-wall smooth matte non-woven is the flattest, most premium finish, the one we recommend for long-term installs and statement murals, and it goes up in an afternoon with the paste-the-wall method. Peel and stick is self-adhesive and removable without a tradesperson, the right choice for rentals, kids' rooms on three-year cycles, and commercial spaces that plan to rebrand. Both carry our water-based, low-VOC pigment inks, and both are printed at the same density and colour management as the standard range, because they ARE the standard range, simply scaled to you. The $4.99 sample (a generous 48cm x 40cm) applies to custom work too. For recolours and bespoke designs, a physical proof of the actual adjusted artwork can be printed before the full wall commits, which is the difference between confidence and hope at commissioning scale. And as with everything we print: shipping is free, worldwide delivery reaches over 40 countries, and every international wallpaper order arrives with import duties paid, so the checkout price is the final price in any hemisphere.
The Custom Process, Start to Finish
- 1. Measure and photograph: jot down the wall's dimensions and take a straight-on photo, plus anything unusual: slopes, corners, fixtures, power points. Five minutes with the measuring guide is all it takes.
- 2. Brief the studio: tell us the design you're starting from (or the idea you're starting without), what needs to change, and where it's going. The custom service page takes it from there.
- 3. Review the proposal: we send back a visual of the design on your dimensions, our material recommendation and the price. Nothing prints until you're happy, and revisions at this stage are simply conversation, not extra cost.
- 4. Sample if it's worth it: the $4.99 physical proof for colour-critical and bespoke work, tested on your actual wall in your actual light.
- 5. Production and delivery: 4 business days on approved full-price orders, free shipping, duties paid worldwide, and the install guides or our installer directory waiting at the other end.
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Why Custom Wallpaper Has One Address in Australia
Custom work is a manufacturing capability, not a marketing page, and the difference shows in the questions a seller can actually answer. Can the design be recoloured? Yes, because our studio and printer share a floor. How will it land on 3.1 metres? Here's the visual, before printing. Can it arrive by the fit-out deadline? 4 business days from approval. What if the wall turns two corners? Send us the geometry; corners are Tuesday. Ten years of doing this, two large West Gosford facilities, more than 350,000 homes, and a production team that treats an attic slope as a puzzle to solve rather than a problem to apologise for. Import-catalogue resellers can retail a pattern; they can't answer a wall. We built the whole operation to answer walls.
The feature-wall thinking that most custom projects support is mapped out in our feature wall guide, the material comparison lives in our removable wallpaper guide, and if you're renting, start with our bond-safe wallpaper guide.
Custom Work in Rentals and Short Stays
Custom and rented aren't opposites, in case you've been treating them like they are. Peel and stick material makes a bespoke wall as reversible as a poster on a wardrobe door. The renter's version of the commission is usually a recoloured design or a mural scaled to a bedroom's feature wall, installed without tools and removed before the exit inspection with the bond entirely untouched. The full method lives in our renter's wallpaper guide if you'd like the reassurance in detail. Short-stay owners commission a little harder. An Airbnb with a memorable custom wall photographs differently from every other listing in the suburb, and the wall pays back its production cost in the listing photos long before the first guest arrives. Both cases follow the same process as any other custom job: measure, brief, approve the visual, sample if the colours matter, install in an afternoon.
The Questions Worth Asking Any Custom Printer
Custom wallpaper is a claim a lot of sites make and rather fewer operations can actually deliver, so it's worth doing a little homework before you brief anyone. Where is the printing done, and can the studio and printer actually talk to each other? (Ours share a building in West Gosford.) Will you see the design on YOUR dimensions before production? (Always, or please walk away.) What are the inks and materials? (Water-based low-VOC pigment on quality non-woven or removable self-adhesive.) What's the production time once approved? (4 business days here; six-week import lead times are the tell that the "studio" is really a reseller.) And what happens if the proof isn't right? (Revisions are a conversation before printing, which is the whole point of proofing in the first place.) Any operation that can answer all five plainly can be trusted with your wall. We publish our answers because this checklist is our home ground.
From One Wall to a Whole Home
Custom projects rarely stay as single walls, because the first one quietly teaches the household what walls can actually do. The natural sequence our repeat commissions follow goes something like this: the statement wall first, usually the living room or the main bedroom, then the recoloured nursery design as the family grows, then the smaller indulgences (the powder room, the laundry, the walk-in robe) where bold custom work costs surprisingly little and brings a small daily delight. Framed art from the same palette completes each room along the way, and because our art and wallpaper print on the same floor, a custom-recoloured wallpaper can have its exact tones echoed in the frames beside it, a coherence that no two-supplier scheme can quite reach. None of this needs to be planned upfront. It simply helps to know, when you're commissioning wall one, that the operation behind it can follow the thread through the whole house at the same 4-day production rhythm, for as many walls as the years bring, with the measuring guide and the studio inbox exactly where you left them.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between made-to-measure and custom wallpaper?
Made-to-measure is every order here: the design you choose, printed and scaled to your wall's exact dimensions. Custom goes a step further: recolouring, recomposition, unusual geometry, or a fully bespoke design built from your brief through our custom service, always with a visual proposal you approve before anything prints.
How much does custom wallpaper cost?
Made-to-measure pricing is simply your wall's dimensions entered on the product page: you pay for your area, nothing rounded up to roll counts, with free shipping included. Bespoke studio work is quoted per project after your brief, with the visual and the price approved by you before anything is printed.
Can you change the colours of an existing design?
Yes, and honestly it's the studio's most common commission. Anything from a sage shifted a little warmer to a complete palette change matching a room scheme is on the table. A $4.99 physical proof of the adjusted design can be printed before your wall commits, and for anything colour-critical, we really do recommend it.
Can you print wallpaper for sloped ceilings and stair voids?
Yes, unusual geometry is core custom territory for us. Send us your measurements and photos, and the design is recomposed for the actual shape, slopes, double heights and wraparound corners all included, with the placement shown to you before production.
How long does custom wallpaper take?
Production is 4 business days on approved full-price orders, the same schedule as our standard range, because it runs on the same printers. The design conversation beforehand takes as long as the revisions you want, and simple recolours often approve within days.
Is custom wallpaper removable?
It prints on the same two materials as everything else: peel and stick for tool-free removal and rentals, or paste-the-wall non-woven that strips cleanly from sound paint. Custom doesn't mean permanent. It just means correct.
Do you ship custom wallpaper internationally?
Yes: free shipping on all wallpaper orders, delivery to over 40 countries, and all import duties paid on international wallpaper orders. A bespoke wall in London prints in West Gosford on Tuesday and clears customs with nothing further to pay.
Can I see how the design will land on my wall before printing?
Always. Made-to-measure orders can have placement confirmed against your measurements on request, and custom projects always include a visual proposal on your dimensions as part of the process. Nothing prints until you've seen how it answers your wall.
Start with your wall's measurements, browse the wallpaper collection for a starting point, and bring your brief to the custom wallpaper studio. Your wall has exact dimensions, and it deserves wallpaper that knows them.





