Residential project

Geometric Wallpaper Feature Wall, Margao

Margao, South Goa

One wall of a newly finished upstairs room in Margao, papered in a geometric pattern of vertical blocks in brown, taupe and bronze over a fine horizontal texture. The room still had the dust of handover on the floor when these were taken: a split air-conditioner on the side wall, a brass wall light with a white glass shade on the papered wall, two switch plates, a white sheer on a rod at the window, and the ceiling sloping down towards the wall.

Property type: New Build at Handover
Location: Margao, South Goa
Work done: Wallpapers

A bedroom wall papered in a brown and bronze geometric block pattern, with a brass wall light, two switch plates and a sheer curtain to the right

The details

The Decisions That Mattered

The brief was to give an empty room a focus before any furniture arrived, and to do it on one wall rather than four. A large-scale pattern in close tones does that without shouting: from across the room it reads as a warm textured surface; up close the blocks and their shading become the point.

A second wall in the same house carries the same pattern in a cooler grey-green colourway, filmed just after hanging. The two rooms share the geometry and differ only in colour, which keeps the house feeling of a piece.

An empty new room with a settled character before a single piece of furniture went in, and a pattern that will sit quietly behind whatever does.

The papered feature wall seen from the side, with the sloping ceiling above and the sheer curtain beside it

01One wall, and the right oneThe papered wall is the one you face from the door, with the bed or sofa to go against it. The side walls and the sloped ceiling stay painted, so the pattern frames the room instead of closing it in.
02Drops matched block for blockA pattern of vertical rectangles shows every mismatch. Each drop was cut to the repeat and hung so the blocks run through the joins; the seams are not where the eye goes.
03Cut round the fittings, not under themThe wall light and both switch plates were taken off, the paper cut cleanly to each back box, and the fittings refixed over the paper. There are no patched corners around them.
04A clean line at the sloping ceilingWhere the ceiling comes down to meet the wall the paper is trimmed to the angle rather than wrapped, so the edge reads as a deliberate line and the ceiling stays white.

On film

Short clips shot on site after fitting. They play silently as they scroll into view; tap one to hold a frame.

A slow pan across the second wall, in the grey-green colourway, just after hanging
The brown feature wall filmed from the doorway, from the wall light to the sheer curtain

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